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The Random House Unabridged 2nd ed. defines the term as “a collection of items or parts in one mass,” and derives it ultimately from the Latin congerere, to collect, heap up.
And the Term is . . . Congeries Gregory Feeley 2004
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The Random House Unabridged 2nd ed. defines the term as “a collection of items or parts in one mass,” and derives it ultimately from the Latin congerere, to collect, heap up.
Archive 2004-12-01 Gregory Feeley 2004
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(In hanc arcellolam solitus erat pater meus numismata auri congerere.) "Plunge thy hand in", said the messenger, "and search them down to the very bottom".
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872
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Oesino congerere plura exempla alia, et etiam ex sequentium imperatorum moneta, ex qiiibus solis jam satis perspicimus, quam periculpsum sit, in consiiium adhibere imagines niunorum, quae tot historicis, et chronologicis mendis refertae sunt An satis Mo - rellius artis nostrae commodis prespexit, quando partium quidem aversarum fidem definivit, partibus interim anticis impune, et cum veritatb intemecione mendacibus?.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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Parte huius Philofophiae, & cauiis determinationum in Apparentiis tam fecundum Locum &c Magnitudinem, quam fecundum Figuram conformem Ob - ieSis vifis, quas hoc eodem traetatu praemifimus, faciie erit colligere, Yr. de & quomodo caufestur difformitates, quas paflirh aduertimus, provaria difpofitione refringentium, &: xefle & entinra e uenire - Noa eft animus glura congerere, fe d aliqiia.
Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656
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