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Definition of Congregating
1. Noun. The act of congregating.
Generic synonyms: Assemblage, Assembly, Gathering
Derivative terms: Congregate, Congregate
Definition of Congregating
1. Verb. (present participle of congregate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Congregating
1. congregate [v] - See also: congregate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Congregating
Literary usage of Congregating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Irish Element in Mediaeval Culture by Heinrich Zimmer (1891)
"... the fact that large numbers of young Anglo-Saxons were now congregating in
Ireland, and sorely feared they would return imbued with heretical views. ..."
2. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"In the spawning season, which varies considerably according to localities, burbot
are in the habit of congregating in large numbers; and in some of the ..."
3. The Architecture of Birds by James Rennie (1831)
"... so far as we can judge, to be partly so many social signals for congregating
in a particular place, and to be continued after the flock has assembled, ..."
4. The Domestic Habits of Birds by James Rennie (1833)
"... so far as we can judge, to be partly so many social signals for congregating
in a particular place, and to be continu .4 after the flock has assembled, ..."
5. ... An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, Comprising the by Albert Gallatin Mackey, Edward L. Hawkins, William James Hughan (1912)
"... are we not permitted to argue d fortiori that he lias also the right of
congregating seven brethren and causing a Mason to be made in his sight? ..."
6. Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Board of Managers (1837)
"congregating of slaves together may have been more restricted, .and the intercourse
of strangers with them more guarded, but the personal treatment of the ..."
7. The Practice and applied therapeutics of osteopathy by Charles Hazzard (1901)
"It also affects the sensory nerves of the scalp, they congregating about the vertex.
CHAPTER VI. EXAMINATION OF THE THORAX. From an Ostéopathie point of ..."