ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Assembled or collected in a body or mass.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, II. i. 120. The congregated Colledge haue concluded, That labouring Art can neuer ransome nature From her inaydible estate.
1667. Milton, P. L., VII. 308. The great receptacle Of congregated Waters.
1718. Prior, Solomon, II. 852. The congregated snow, and swelling rain.
1878. Browning, La Saisiaz, 17. The city’s congregated peace of homes and pomp of spires.
2. Bot. Clustered in a dense mass; aggregated.
1776. Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 151. Bunch congregated, pointing one way. Ibid., II. 273. Flowers congregated, axillary.
† 3. Organized on a Congregational basis. Obs.
1653. Bibl. Parl. (a satire), in Somers, Tracts (1812), VII. 95. That publike thankes be given to God in all the congregated churches in and about London.
1660. Milton, Free Commw., Wks. 1738, I. 583. The well-affected Party of the City, and the congregated Churches, may be induced to mediate.
1660. T. M., Walker’s Hist. Indep., IV. 55. The congregated Churches of Schismaticks and Sectaries in and about London, raise three Regiments.
1799. C. Winter, in W. Jay, Mem., 85. A congregated church of Africans.
