Dictionary entry

Congregate (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con″gre‐gate (?), 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.

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.