Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To conglobate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To gather into a ball; collect into a round mass.
  • To collect and become spherical; gather in a round mass.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass.
  • transitive verb To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to conglobate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb assume a globular shape

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Examples

  • If those who hold the common doctrine of a carnal resurrection should carry it out with philosophical consistency, by extending the scheme it involves to all existing planetary races as well as to their own, should they cause that process of imagination which produced this doctrine to go on to its legitimate completion, they would see in the final consummation the sundered earths approach each other, and firmaments conglobe, till at last the whole universe concentred in one orb.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

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