[f. ppl. stem of L. conglobā-re to gather into a globe or ball: see next.] To gather or form into a ball or globe, or a rounded compact mass. Also fig.
1. trans. = CONGLOBE a. Chiefly in pa. pple.
1635. Swan, Spec. M., v. § 2 (1643), 123. Not conglobated into one bodie as the stars are.
1671. Willoughby, in Phil. Trans., VI. 2279. The similitude of those Theca’s, conglobated together, to the Eggs of Spiders.
1775. Johnson, Western Isl., Wks. X. 500. Many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.
1857. Berkeley, Cryptog. Bot., 176. Spores conglobated without any definite order.
2. intr. (for refl.) = CONGLOBE b.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. vii. 120. Some seminall matter, which may after conglobate into the forme of an egge.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., Ep. Ded. To summon Democritical Atomes to conglobate into an intellectual Form.
1803. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XIV. 490. To suppose, that out of a chaotic mass … such mute balls should have conglobated, by a gravitation inherent in the matter.
