v. [a. Fr. agroupe-r (17th c.) to put into a group; f. à to + grouper to group, prob. due to phr. à groupe. Would be better spelt agroup.] trans. To form or arrange in a group or groups; to GROUP. Also intr. (for refl.) (Orig. a term of art.)
1695. Dryden, Dufresnoy’s Art of Painting, § 132 (R.), 131. They aggrouppe and contrast each other in the same manner as the Figures do. Ibid., 60 (J.). Bodies of divers natures which are aggroup’d (or combin’d) together, are agreeable and pleasant to the sight.
a. 1760. J. H. Browne, Design & Beauty (1768), 103. Aggroupe the figures here, and there oppose.
