Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Congregating"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Congregated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Congregating}]
To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to
bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather
together; to mass; to compact.
Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be
termed by the name of a church. --Hooker.
Cold congregates all bodies. --Coleridge.
The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called
Seas. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
congregating
n : the act of congregating [syn: {congregation}]
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