[ad. L. congregāt-us, pa. pple. of congregāre, f. con- together + gregā-re to collect into a flock or company, f. greg-em (grex) flock, herd: see GREGARIOUS.]
A. adj. 1. Assembled, congregated.
† a. as pa. pple. Obs.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. These men somme tyme congregate schalle goe furthe.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (1531), 121. All waters were congregate or gathered togyder in one place.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., VII. vi. 19. With all the Gods about him congregate.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. ix. § 1.
b. as adj.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 72. Where the Matter is most Congregate, the Cold is the greater.
1864. Neale, Seaton. Poems, 169. Congregate masses of blackness.
† 2. = CONGREGATED 3. Obs.
1680. Answ. Stillingfleet’s Serm., 31. So would the Congregate Churches … own the King for Head over them.
3. Carried on in a congregation; collective.
1890. Harper’s Mag., Nov., 969/1. A congregate education by clubs.
† B. pl. Assembled persons. Obs.
1587. Harrison, England, II. viii. (1877), I. 175. That the congregates may frankelie shew their minds upon such matters as are to come before them.
