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Amalgamate   /əmˈælgəmˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Amalgamate  v. t.  (past & past part. amalgamated; pres. part. amalgamating)  
1.
To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
2.
To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. "Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one."



Amalgamate  v. i.  
1.
To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
2.
To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.



adjective
Amalgamated, Amalgamate  adj.  Coalesced; united; combined.






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... objurgating straight ahead all this time, now weighed anchor and put the boat in towards shore. Silence fell upon the company. They seemed very shy of each other, and did not amalgamate at all. Mr. P. went out to the extreme end of the bowsprit and gazed down into the deep blue sea, wondering whether its color was really due to excess of salt, or the presence of cuprate of ammonia. HORACE climbed to the top of the mast, where he sat sadly, ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 • Various

... into occasional conflict, of undying religious animosities, of strange combinations, of fearful massacres, and of a government looking tamely on, and allowing things for the most part to take their course. We see how utterly the Parthian system failed to blend together or amalgamate the conquered peoples; and not only so, but how impotent it was even to effect the first object of a government, the securing of peace and tranquillity within its borders. If indeed it were necessary to believe that the picture brought before us represented truthfully the normal condition of ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia • George Rawlinson

... work with our affections; but mine are ever returning to rest upon you. I have other and dear friends, but none with whom the whole of my being is intimate—with whom every thought and feeling can amalgamate. Oh! I have yet such dreams! Is it quite clear that you and I were not meant for some better star, and dropped, by mistake, into this world of pounds, shillings, ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull

... utter impatience of the brutality and ignorance which Bartoline had contrived to amalgamate into one sentence. But Saddletree, like other prosers, was blessed with a happy obtuseness of perception concerning the unfavourable impression which he sometimes made on his auditors. He proceeded to deal forth his scraps of legal knowledge without mercy, and concluded by asking Butler, ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... used largely in the manufacture of cheap jewelry by making a hard, gold-colored alloy with copper, called aluminum bronze, consisting of 90 per cent. of copper and 10 per cent. of aluminum. Like iron, it does not amalgamate directly with mercury, nor is it readily alloyed with lead, but many alloys with other metals, as copper, iron, gold, etc., have been made with it and found to be valuable combinations. One part of it to 100 parts of gold gives a hard, malleable alloy ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various


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