conglobeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kəŋˈɡləʊb/
• (General American) IPA: /kəŋˈɡloʊb/
• 韻: -əʊb
• ハイフネーション: con‧globe.

動詞

conglobe (third-person singular simple present conglobes, present participle conglobing, simple past and past participle conglobed)

1. (ambitransitive, poetic, archaic) To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.

1. • 1667, Alexander Pope, “Book IV”, in The Dunciad‎, page 163:

     Not closer, orb in orb, conglob’d are seen / The buzzing Bees about their dusky Queen.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost‎, Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, page 239:

     Thither they / Hasted with glad precipitance, up-rolled, / As drops on dust conglobing, from the dry;

   • 1880, Robert Browning, “Pan and Luna”, in Dramatic Idyls: Second Series, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:

     But what means this? The downy swathes combine, / Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff / Curdles about her!

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost‎, Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, page 237:

     His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, / And vital virtue infused and vital warmth, / Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purged / The black, tartareous, cold, infernal, dregs / Adverse to life: then founded, then conglobed / Like things to like.

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