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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, verb (used without an object) To come together; to assemble; to meet.
Even there where merchants most do congregate. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, adjective [L. congregatus, p. p. of congregare to congregate; on- + gregare to collect into a flock, fr. grex flock, herd. See {Gregarious}.] Collected; compact; close. [R.] --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, verb (used with an object) [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) 2.0 [wn]:
congregate
adjective: brought together into a group or crowd; "the accumulated letters in my office" [syn: {accumulated}, {amassed}, {assembled}, {collected}, {massed}]
verb: come together, usually for a purpose; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "congregate": assemble, bunch, bunch up, clot, cluster, collect, come together, congress, converge, copulate, couple, crowd, date, flock together, flow together, forgather, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, herd together, hive, horde, huddle, league, link, mass, meet, merge, mill, muster, raise, rally, rally around, rendezvous, seethe, stream, surge, swarm, teem, throng, unite
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