Conger Con"ger noun [ Latin conger , congrus , akin to Greek ...: confer French congre .] (Zoology) The conger eel; -- called also congeree .

Conger sea (Zoology) , the sea eel; a large species of eel ( Conger vulgaris ), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet.

Congeries Con·ge"ri·es noun sing & plural [ Latin , from congerere . See Congest .] A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.

Congest Con·gest" transitive verb [ Latin congestus , past participle of congere to bring together; con- + gerere . See Gerund .]

1. To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.

To what will thy congested guilt amount?
Blackmore.

2. (Medicine) To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.

Congested Con·gest"ed adjective 1. (Botany) Crowded together. Gray.

2. (Medicine) Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperćmic; -- said of any part of the body.

Congestion Con·ges"tion noun [ Latin congestio : confer French congestion .] 1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [ Obsolete]

The congestion of dead bodies one upon another.
Evelyn.

2. (Medicine) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperćmia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion ; venous congestion ; congestion of the lungs.

Congestive Con·gest"ive adjective (Medicine) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.

Congiary Con"gi·a·ry noun ; plural Congiaries . [ Latin congiarium , from congius a liquid measure.] A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius . Addison.

» In later years, when gifts of money were distributed, the name congius was retained.

Congius Con"gi·us noun [ Latin ] 1. (Roman Antiq.) A liquid measure containing about three quarts.

2. (Medicine) A gallon, or four quarts. [ Often abbreviated to cong. ]

Conglaciate Con·gla"ci·ate transitive verb & i. [ Latin conglaciatus , past participle of conglaciare . See Glaciate .] To turn to ice; to freeze. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

Conglaciation Con·gla`ci·a"tion noun [ Confer French conglaciation .] The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. Bacon.

Conglobate Con·glo"bate adjective [ Latin conglobatus , past participle of conglobare to conglobate. See Globate .] Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [ lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.

Conglobate Con·glo"bate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Conglobated ; present participle & verbal noun Conglobating .] [ Confer Conglore .] To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together.

Conglobated bubbles undissolved.
Wordsworth.

Conglobation Con`glo·ba"tion noun [ Latin conglobatio : confer French conglobation .] 1. The act or process of forming into a ball. Sir T. Browne.

2. A round body.

Conglobe Con·globe" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Conglobed ; present participle & verbal noun Conglobing .] [ Latin conglobare : confer French conglober . Confer Conglobate .] To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.

Then founded, then conglobed
Like things to like.
Milton.

Conglobe Con·globe" intransitive verb To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass. Milton.

Conglobulate Con·glob"u·late intransitive verb [ Prefix con- + globule .] To gather into a small round mass.

Conglomerate Con·glom"er·ate adjective [ Latin conglomeratus , past participle of conglomerare to roll together; con- + glomerare to wind into a ball. See Glomerate .] 1. Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.

Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate .
Bacon.

Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.
Cheyne.

2. (Botany) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers. Gray.

3. (Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

Conglomerate Con·glom"er·ate noun 1. That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.

A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together.
Trench.

2. (Geol.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate . See Breccia .

A conglomerate , therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.
Lyell.

Conglomerate Con·glom"er·ate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Conglomerated ; present participle & verbal noun Conglomerating .] To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

Conglomeration Con·glom`er·a"tion noun [ Latin conglomeratio : confer French conglomeration .] The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass. Bacon.

Conglutin Con·glu"tin noun [ From Conglutinate .] (Chemistry) A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.

Conglutinant Con·glu"ti·nant adjective [ Latin , conglutinans , present participle] Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.

Conglutinate Con·glu"ti·nate adjective [ Latin conglutinatus , past participle of conglutinare to glue; con- + glutinare to glue, gluten glue.] Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.

Conglutinate Con·glu"ti·nate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Conglutinated ; present participle & verbal noun Conglutinating.] To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together.

Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days.
Boyle.

Conglutinate Con·glu"ti·nate intransitive verb To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.

Conglutination Con·glu`ti·na"tion noun [ Latin conglutinatio : confer French conglutination .] A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union.

Conglutination of parts separated by a wound.
Arbuthnot.

Conglutinative Con·glu"ti·na"tive adjective [ Confer French conglutinatif .] Conglutinant.

Congo group Con"go group [ From Congo red .] A group of artificial dyes with an affinity for vegetable fibers, so that no mordant is required. Most of them are azo compounds derived from benzidine or tolidine. Called also benzidine dyes .

Congo red Congo red (Chemistry) An artificial red dye from which the Congo group received its name. It is also widely used either in aqueous solution or as test paper ( Congo paper ) for the detection of free acid, which turns it blue.

Congo snake Con"go snake" (Zoology) An amphibian ( Amphiuma means ) of the order Urodela , found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma .

Congou, Congo Con"gou, Con"go noun [ Chin. kung-foo labor.] Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea .

Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou , or the "well worked", a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term "English breakfast tea."
S. W. Williams.

Congratulant Con·grat"u·lant adjective [ Latin congratulans , present participle] Rejoicing together; congratulatory.

With like joy
Congratulant approached him.
Milton.

Congratulate Con·grat"u·late transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Congratulated ; present participle & verbal noun Congratulating .] [ Latin congratulatus , past participle of congratulari to wish joy abundantly; con- + gratulari to wish joy, from gratus pleasing. See Grateful .] To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.

It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion.
Shak.

To congratulate one's self , to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self happy or fortunate.

Syn. -- To Congratulate , Felicitate . To felicitate is simply to wish a person joy. To congratulate has the additional signification of uniting in the joy of him whom we congratulate. Hence they are by no means synonymous. One who has lost the object of his affections by her marriage to a rival, might perhaps felicitate that rival on his success, but could never be expected to congratulate him on such an event.

Felicitations are little better than compliments; congratulations are the expression of a genuine sympathy and joy.
Trench.

Congratulate Con·grat"u·late intransitive verb To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country. [ R.] Swift.

The subjects of England may congratulate to themselves.
Dryden.

Congratulation Con·grat`u·la"tion noun [ Latin congratulatio : confer French congratulation .] The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure.

With infinite congratulations for our safe arrival.
Dr. J. Scott.

Congratulator Con·grat"u·la`tor noun One who offers congratulation. Milton.

Congratulatory Con·grat"u·la·to·ry adjective Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.

Congree Con·gree" intransitive verb [ Prefix on- + Latin gratus pleasing. Confer Agree .] To agree. [ bs.] Shak.

Congreet Con·greet" transitive verb To salute mutually. [ Obsolete]

Congregate Con"gre·gate adjective [ Latin congregatus , past participle of congregare to congregate; on- + gregare to collect into a flock, from grex flock, herd. See Gregarious .] Collected; compact; close. [ R.] Bacon.

Congregate Con"gre·gate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Congregated ; present participle & verbal noun 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.

Congregate Con"gre·gate intransitive verb To come together; to assemble; to meet.

Even there where merchants most do congregate .
Shak.

Congregation Con`gre·ga"tion noun [ Latin congregatio : confer French congrégation .] 1. The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.

The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts.
Bacon.

2. A collection or mass of separate things.

A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
Shak.

3. An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.

He [ Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations .
Macaulay.

4. (Anc. Jewish Hist.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord .

It is a sin offering for the congregation .
Lev. iv. 21.

5. (R. C. Ch.) (a) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda , which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church. (b) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.

6. The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees. [ Eng.]

7. (Scotch Church Hist.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation .

Congregational Con`gre·ga"tion·al adjective 1. Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.

2. Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church.

Congregationalism Con`gre·ga"tion·al·ism noun 1. That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.

2. The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.

» In this sense (which is its usual signification) Congregationalism is the system of faith and practice common to a large body of evangelical Trinitarian churches, which recognize the local brotherhood of each church as independent of all dictation in ecclesiastical matters, but are united in fellowship and joint action, as in councils for mutual advice, and in consociations, conferences, missionary organizations, etc., and to whose membership the designation "Congregationalists" is generally restricted; but Unitarian and other churches are Congregational in their polity.

Congregationalist Con`gre·ga"tion·al·ist noun One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism.

Congress Con"gress noun ; plural Congresses . [ Latin congressus , from congredi , past participle -gressus , to go or come together; con- + grati to go or step, gradus step: confer French congr...s . See Grade .] 1. A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter. [ Obsolete]

Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there;
Their congress in the field great Jove withstands.
Dryden.

2. A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things. [ Obsolete]

From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies.
Cheyne.

3. The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition. Pennant.

4. A gathering or assembly; a conference.

5. A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.

The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna.
Alison.

6. The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.

» In the Congress of the United States (which took the place of the Federal Congress, March 4, 1789), the Senate consists of two Senators from each State, chosen by the State legislature for a term of six years, in such a way that the terms of one third of the whole number expire every year; the House of Representatives consists of members elected by the people of the several Congressional districts, for a term of two years, the term of all ending at the same time. The united body of Senators and Representatives for any term of two years for which the whole body of Representatives is chosen is called one Congress . Thus the session which began in December, 1887, was the first (or long) session, and that which began in December, 1888, was the second (or short) session, of the Fiftieth Congress . When an extra session is had before the date of the first regular meeting of a Congress, that is called the first session, and the following regular session is called the second session.

7. The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.

The Continental Congress , an assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution. -- The Federal Congress , the assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789. -- Congress boot or gaiter , a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. [ U.S.] -- Congress water , a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York.

Syn. -- Assembly; meeting; convention; convocation; council; diet; conclave; parliament; legislature.

Congression Con·gres"sion noun [ Latin congressio .] A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse. [ R.] Jer. Taylor.

Congressional Con·gres"sion·al adjective Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.

Congressional and official labor.
E. Everett.

Congressional District , one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States.

Congressive Con·gres"sive adjective Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.

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