[ad. L. conglūtinātiōn-em, n. of action f. conglūtināre: see above. So in F. (16th c. in Littré).]
1. The action of gluing together, or causing to cohere firmly by, or as by, some tenacious substance; the condition of being so glued together.
1605. B. Jonson, Volpone, II. ii. There goes to it sixe hundred seuerall simples, besides some quantity of humane fat, for the conglutination.
1643. J. Steer, trans. Fabricius’ Exp. Chirurg., viii. 38. Thin Leaden Plates … are to be put betweene the parts where conglutination is feared.
1729. Shelvocke, Artillery, V. 314. The Fastening or conglutination of the two Boards.
1830. trans. Aristoph. Acharnians, etc., Knights, 71. Do you exert the forge against his conglutinations.
† b. Med. Union or junction of wounded parts or broken bones. Obs.
1541. R. Copland, Galyen’s Terapeutyke, 2 Ciij b. To tel all the causes that let the coition and conglutination.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVII. 590. A bleeding Wound requires Conglutination.
1729. T. Dale, trans. Freind’s Emmenologia, xiii. (1752), 159. If while we are endeavouring to govern the Blood, we should neglect the conglutination of the Vessels.
1731. Arbuthnot, Aliments, ii. 42. To this Motion of Elongation of the Fibres is owing the Union or Conglutination of the Parts of the Body, when they are separated by a Wound.
c. fig. and transf.
1608. J. King, Serm. St. Mary’s, 13. The composition and conglutination of the two principall verbes in my Text, Regnauit et mortuus est.
1646. Sir J. Temple, Irish Rebell., 14. A firm conglutination of their affections and Nationall obligations.
1867. A. J. Ellis, E. E. Pronunc., I. iii. 186. Cooper … defines a diphthong as the ‘conglutinatio duarum vocalium in eâdem syllabâ.’ This theory of ‘conglutination,’ effected by the ‘glide,’ is that which I have adopted.
2. quasi-concr. A conglutinated mass.
c. 1532. Dewes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 1053. But a conglutination and combination of the foure elementes.
1767. Montagu, in Phil. Trans., LVII. 440. A petrification or rather conglutination of many different stones, but all vitrescent.
