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Ag*glom"er*ate (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agglomerated (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Agglomerating (&?;).] [L. agglomeratus, p. p. of agglomerare; ad + glomerare to form into a ball. See Glomerate.] To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.

Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

Ag*glom"er*ate, v. i. To collect in a mass.

{ Ag*glom"er*ate (&?;), Ag*glom"er*a`ted (&?;), } a. 1. Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.

2. (Bot.) Collected into a rounded head of flowers.

Ag*glom"er*ate (&?;), n. 1. A collection or mass.

2. (Geol.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.

Ag*glom`er*a"tion (&?;), n. [Cf. F. agglomération.] 1. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.

An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

2. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.

Ag*glom"er*a*tive (&?;), a. Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.

Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

Ag*glu"ti*nant (&?;), a. [L. agglutinans, -antis, p. pr. of agglutinare.] Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n. Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.

Ag*glu"ti*nate (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agglutinated (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Agglutinating.] [L. agglutinatus, p. p. of agglutinare to glue or cement to a thing; ad + glutinare to glue; gluten glue. See Glue.] To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

Ag*glu"ti*nate (&?;), a. 1. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.

2. (physiol.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

Ag*glu`ti*na"tion (&?;), n. [Cf. F. agglutination.] 1. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

2. (Physiol.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.

Ag*glu"ti*na*tive (&?;), a. [Cf. F. agglutinatif.] 1. Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.

2. (Philol.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound.

In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris.

Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris.

Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.

Ag*grace" (&?;), v. t. [Pref. a- + grace: cf. It. aggraziare, LL. aggratiare. See Grace.] To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

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Ag*grace" (&?;), n. Grace; favor. [Obs.] Spenser.

Ag"gran*di"za*ble (&?;), a. Capable of being aggrandized.

Ag*gran`di*za"tion (&?;), n. Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.