Agent A"gent adjective [ Latin
agens ,
agentis , present participle of
agere to act; akin to Greek ... to lead, Icelandic
aka to drive, Sanskrit
aj . √2.]
Acting; -- opposed to patient , or sustaining, action. [ Archaic] "The body
agent ."
Bacon.
Agent A"gent noun 1. One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor. Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill.
Dryden.
2. One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor. 3. An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent ; as, heat is a powerful agent .
Agential Aˇgen"tial adjective Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.
Agentship A"gentˇship noun Agency. Beau. & Fl.
Ageratum Aˇger"aˇtum noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... a sort of plant;
'a priv. + ... old age.]
(Botany) A genus of plants, one species of which ( A. Mexicanum ) has lavender- blue flowers in dense clusters.
Aggeneration Agˇgen`erˇa"tion noun [ Latin
aggenerare to beget in addition. See
Generate .]
The act of producing in addition. [ Obsolete]
T. Stanley.
Agger Ag"ger noun [ Latin , a mound, from
aggerere to bear to a place, heap up;
ad +
gerere to bear.]
An earthwork; a mound; a raised work. [ Obsolete]
Hearne.
Aggerate Ag"gerˇate transitive verb [ Latin
aggeratus , past participle of
aggerare . See
Agger .]
To heap up. [ Obsolete]
Foxe.
Aggeration Ag`gerˇa"tion noun [ Latin
aggeratio .]
A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [ R.]
Aggerose Ag`gerˇose" adjective In heaps; full of heaps.
Aggest Agˇgest" transitive verb [ Latin
aggestus , past participle of
aggerere . See
Agger .]
To heap up. [ Obsolete]
The violence of the waters aggested the earth.
Fuller.
Agglomerate Agˇglom"erˇate transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Agglomerated ;
present participle & verbal noun Agglomerating ] [ Latin
agglomeratus , past participle 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.
Agglomerate Agˇglom"erˇate intransitive verb To collect in a mass.
Agglomerate Agˇglom"erˇate noun 1. A collection or mass. 2. (Geol.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate .
Agglomerate, Agglomerated Agˇglom"erˇate, Agˇglom"erˇa`ted adjective 1. Collected into a ball, heap, or mass. 2. (Botany) Collected into a rounded head of flowers.
Agglomeration Agˇglom`erˇa"tion noun [ Confer French
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.
Agglomerative Agˇglom"erˇaˇtive adjective 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.
Agglutinant Agˇglu"tiˇnant adjective [ Latin
agglutinans ,
-antis , present participle of
agglutinare .]
Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. --
noun Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.
Agglutinate Agˇglu"tiˇnate transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Agglutinated ;
present participle & verbal noun Agglutinating .] [ Latin
agglutinatus , past participle 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.
Agglutinate Agˇglu"tiˇnate adjective 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.
Agglutination Agˇglu`tiˇna"tion noun [ Confer French
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.
Agglutinative Agˇglu"tiˇnaˇtive adjective [ Confer French
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.
Confer 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.
Aggrace Agˇgrace" transitive verb [ Prefix
a- +
grace : confer Italian
aggraziare , Late Latin
aggratiare . See
Grace .]
To favor; to grace. [ Obsolete] "That knight so much
aggraced ."
Spenser.
Aggrace Agˇgrace" noun Grace; favor. [ Obsolete]
Spenser.
Aggrade Agˇgrade" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Aggraded ;
present participle & verbal noun Aggrading .]
(Physics Geology) To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.
Aggrandizable Ag"granˇdi"zaˇble adjective Capable of being aggrandized.
Aggrandization Agˇgran`diˇza"tion noun Aggrandizement. [ Obsolete]
Waterhouse.
Aggrandize Ag"granˇdize transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Aggrandized ;
present participle & verbal noun Aggrandizing ] [ French
agrandir ;
Ă (L.
ad ) +
grandir to increase, Latin
grandire , from
grandis great. See
Grand , and confer
Finish .]
1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. 2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. His scheme for aggrandizing his son.
Prescott.
3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. Lamb. Syn. -- To augment; exalt; promote; advance.
Aggrandize Ag"granˇdize intransitive verb To increase or become great. [ Obsolete]
Follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize .
J. Hall.
Aggrandizement Agˇgran"dizeˇment noun [ Confer French
agrandissement .]
The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family. Syn. -- Augmentation; exaltation; enlargement; advancement; promotion; preferment.
Aggrandizer Ag"granˇdi`zer noun One who aggrandizes, or makes great.
Aggrate Agˇgrate" transitive verb [ Italian
aggratare , from Latin
ad +
gratus pleasing. See
Grate ,
adjective ]
To please. [ Obsolete]
Each one sought his lady to aggrate .
Spenser.
Aggravate Ag"graˇvate transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Aggravated ;
present participle & verbal noun Aggravating .] [ Latin
aggravatus , past participle of
aggravare . See
Aggrieve .]
1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [ Obsolete] "To
aggravate thy store."
Shak. 2. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To
aggravate my woes."
Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene.
Prescott.
The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.
Addison.
3. To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley. 4. To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. [ Colloq.]
If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
Richardson (Clarissa).
Syn. -- To heighten; intensify; increase; magnify; exaggerate; provoke; irritate; exasperate.
Aggravating Ag"graˇva`ting adjective 1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. [ Colloq.]
A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating .
J. Ingelow.
Aggravatingly Ag"graˇva`tingˇly adverb In an aggravating manner.
Aggravation Ag`graˇva"tion noun [ Late Latin
aggravatio : confer French
aggravation .]
1. The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences. 2. Exaggerated representation. By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head.
Addison.
3. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity. 4. Provocation; irritation. [ Colloq.]
Dickens.
Aggravative Ag"graˇvaˇtive adjective Tending to aggravate. --
noun That which aggravates.
Aggregate Ag"greˇgate transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Aggregated ;
present participle & verbal noun Aggregating .] [ Latin
aggregatus , past participle of
aggregare to lead to a flock or herd;
ad +
gregare to collect into a flock,
grex flock, herd. See
Gregarious .]
1. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil." Milton. 2. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association. It is many times hard to discern to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated .
Wollaston.
3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [ Colloq.]
Syn. -- To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect.
Aggregate Ag"greˇgate adjective [ Latin
aggregatus , past participle ]
1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective. The aggregate testimony of many hundreds.
Sir T. Browne.
2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands. 3. (Botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry. 4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means. 5. (Zoology) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals. Corporation aggregate .
(Law) See under Corporation .
Aggregate Ag"greˇgate noun 1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc. » In an
aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a
compound .
2. (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound , formed by the union of heterogeneous particles. In the aggregate ,
collectively; together.
Aggregately Ag"greˇgateˇly adverb Collectively; in mass.
Aggregation Ag`greˇga"tion noun [ Confer Late Latin
aggregatio , French
agrégation .]
The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate. Each genus is made up by aggregation of species.
Carpenter.
A nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation , but . . . of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers, and in space.
Burke.
Aggregative Ag"greˇgaˇtive adjective [ Confer Fr.
agrégatif .]
1. Taken together; collective. 2. Gregarious; social. [ R.]
Carlyle.
Aggregator Ag"greˇga`tor noun One who aggregates.
Aggrege Agˇgrege" transitive verb [ Old French
agreger . See
Aggravate .]
To make heavy; to aggravate. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Aggress Agˇgress" intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Aggressed ;
present participle & verbal noun Aggressing .] [ Latin
aggressus , past participle of
aggredi to go to, approach;
ad +
gradi to step, go,
gradus step: confer Old French
aggresser . See
Grade .]
To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on .
Aggress Agˇgress" transitive verb To set upon; to attack. [ R.]
Aggress Agˇgress" noun [ Latin
aggressus .]
Aggression. [ Obsolete]
Their military aggresses on others.
Sir M. Hale.
Aggression Agˇgres"sion noun [ Latin
aggressio , from
aggredi : confer French
agression .]
The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression . " Aggressions of power." Hallam Syn. -- Attack; offense; intrusion; provocation.
Aggressive Agˇgres"sive adjective [ Confer French
agressif .]
Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. --
Ag*gres"sive*ly ,
adverb --
Ag*gres"sive*ness ,
noun No aggressive movement was made.
Macaulay.
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