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a. [ L. aggregatus, p. p. ] 1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective. [ 1913 Webster ]

The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporation aggregate. (Law) See under Corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a compound. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the aggregate, collectively; together. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Collectively; in mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. aggregatio, F. agrégation. ] The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each genus is made up by aggregation of species. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Fr. agrégatif. ] 1. Taken together; collective. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gregarious; social. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. tending to gather into a mass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who aggregates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. agreger. See Aggravate. ] To make heavy; to aggravate. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cold congregates all bodies. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great receptacle
Of congregated waters he called Seas. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To come together; to assemble; to meet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even there where merchants most do congregate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. congregatio: cf. F. congrégation. ] 1. The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection or mass of separate things. [ 1913 Webster ]

A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Bunyan ] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Anc. Jewish Hist.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a sin offering for the congregation. Lev. iv. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Scotch Church Hist.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to eliminate laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using (certain locations, organizations, or facilities); to introduce members of a racial or religious group into (a community, facility, or organization from which they had been barred). [ PJC ]

n. the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community; the elimination of laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using certain locations, organizations, or facilities. In the 1960's and 1970's civil rights legislation was passed by the U. S. congress, prohibiting segregation by governmental agencies and in places of public accommodation, which resulteo in widospread besegregotion of schools and places of business. Some segregation remains in privately operated organizations.
Syn. -- integration, integrating. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. désagrégation. ] The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. disgregare; dis- + gregare to collect, fr. grex, gregis, flock or herd. ] To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. egregius; lit., separated or chosen from the herd, i. e., distinguished, excellent; e out + grex, gregis, herd. See Gregarious. ] Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake. [ 1913 Webster ]

The egregious impudence of this fellow. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

His [ Wyclif's ] egregious labors are not to be neglected. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being egregious. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. engregier, from (assumed) LL. ingreviare; in + (assumed) grevis heavy, for L. gravis. Cf. Aggravate. ] To aggravate; to make worse; to lie heavy on. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gregalis, fr. grex, gregis, herd. ] Pertaining to, or like, a flock. [ 1913 Webster ]

For this gregal conformity there is an excuse. W. S. Mayo. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common. [ Obs. ] “The gregarian soldiers.” Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gregarina the typical genus, fr. L. gregarius. See Gregarious. ] (Zool.) An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amœbiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Gregarinæ. -- n. One of the Gregarinæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖def>Gregarinæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gregarius, fr. grex, gregis, herd; cf. Gr. &unr_; to assemble, Skr. jar to approach. Cf. Congregate, Egregious. ] Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

No birds of prey are gregarious. Ray.

-- Gre*ga"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Gre*ga"ri*ous*ness, n.

/mhw>, v. t. [ OE. gregier to burden. ] To make heavy; to increase. [ Obs. ] Wyclif.

{ } n. [ Prob. fr, It. Greco Greek, or Sp. Griego, or Pg. Grego. ] A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant. [ Written also griego. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. Gregorianus, fr. Gregorius Gregory, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. grégorien. ] Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gregorian calendar, the calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582, including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of Easter and the movable feasts by means of epochs. See Gregorian year (below). --
Gregorian chant (Mus.), plain song, or canto fermo, a kind of unisonous music, according to the eight celebrated church modes, as arranged and prescribed by Pope Gregory I. (called “the Great”) in the 6th century. --
Gregorian modes, the musical scales ordained by Pope Gregory the Great, and named after the ancient Greek scales, as Dorian, Lydian, etc. --
Gregorian telescope (Opt.), a form of reflecting telescope, named from Prof. James Gregory, of Edinburgh, who perfected it in 1663. A small concave mirror in the axis of this telescope, having its focus coincident with that of the large reflector, transmits the light received from the latter back through a hole in its center to the eyepiece placed behind it. --
Gregorian year, the year as now reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar. Thus, every year, of the current reckoning, which is divisible by 4, except those divisible by 100 and not by 400, has 366 days; all other years have 365 days. See Bissextile, and Note under Style, n., 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. Pope Gregory XIII., born 1572, died 1585, the pope who introduced the modern calendar.
Syn. -- Gregory XIII, Ugo Buoncompagni. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Pope Gregory I., born circa 540, died 604; the pope for whom Gregorian chants were named.
Syn. -- Gregory I, Saint Gregory I, Gregory the Great. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Not growing or living in groups or colonies; -- of plants and animals.
Syn. -- nonsocial, solitary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. integrated. Opposite of segregated.
Syn. -- desegrated, unsegregated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. segregatus, p. p. of segregare to separate; pref. se- aside + grex, gregis, a flock or herd. See Gregarious. ] 1. Separate; select. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Segregated p. pr. & vb. n. Segregating. ] To separate from others; to set apart. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are still segregated, Christians from Christians, under odious designations. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Geol.) To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification. [ 1913 Webster ]