cong_e

n. 1. [ Tamil ka&ncirc_;shi boilings. ] Boiled rice; rice gruel. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A jail; a lockup. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Congee discharges, rice water discharges. Dunglison. --
Congee water, water in which rice has been boiled. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref.on-+ L. gratus pleasing. Cf. Agree. ] To agree. [ bs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To salute mutually. [ Obs. ] [ 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]