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The meaning of CONGERIES is aggregation, collection. Did you know?
A collection of objects or ideas; mass; heap.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
The earliest known use of the noun congeries is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for congeries is from before 1620, in the writing of Martin Fotherby, bishop of Salisbury. congeries is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin congeriēs. See etymology.
congeries, Source: Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage Author(s): Jeremy ButterfieldJeremy Butterfield. pronounced kon-jeer-iz and derived from Latin congerere ‘to heap together’, is a collective name for any disorderly collection ...
Congeries definition: a collection of items or parts in one mass; assemblage; aggregation, heap. See examples of CONGERIES used in a sentence.
Noun. congeries (pl. congeries) A collection or aggregation of disparate items. 1898, William McKinley, Second State of the Union Address: The world has seen the postal system developed from a congeries of independent and exclusive services into a well-ordered union, of which all countries enjoy the manifold benefits.
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