Agglutinate v. t. (past & past part. agglutinated; pres. part. agglutinating) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
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Agglutinate adj.
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United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
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(Physiol.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.
... than all the known fossiliferous deposits." In brief, accumulated evidence shows, that by contact with, or proximity to, the molten matter of the Earth's nucleus, all beds of sediment are liable to be actually melted, or partially fused, or so heated as to agglutinate their particles; and that according to the temperature they have been raised to, and the circumstances under which they cool, they assume the forms of granite, porphyry, trap, gneiss, or rock otherwise altered. ... — Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer
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