Congeries synonyms

kən-jîr'ēz', kŏn'jə-rēz'

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pile
A heap of wood or other combustible material on which a corpse or sacrifice is burned
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accumulation
The definition of accumulation is the gathering and growing together of a thing, or accumulation can describe the things which were gathered together.
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mass
(Religion, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
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bunch (related)
(Informal) A considerable number or amount; a lot:
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collection (related)
A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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heap (related)
(Computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
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aggregation
The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
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amassment
The act of amassing.
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assemblage
A collection of items from a single datable component of an archaeological site.
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cumulation
The effect of free trade agreements on the rules of origin in calculating importation tariffs, quotas, etc.
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collect (related)
A brief formal prayer that is used in various Western liturgies before the epistle and that varies with the day.
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aggregate
(Roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
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conglomeration
An instance of conglomerating, a coming together of separate parts.
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Congeries Sentence Examples

  • (3) A well-marked chain running in a south-easterly direction among the congeries of hills that extend south-eastward from the central mountains, and attaining, near the southern part of the east coast, heights up to and exceeding 6000 ft.

  • Legaspi's conquest of the islands was facilitated by the fact that there were no established native states, but rather a congeries of small clan-like groups, the headship of which was hereditary.

  • "If the sovereign power is to be understood in this fuller, less abstract sense, if we mean by it the real determinant of the habitual obedience of the people, we must look for its sources much more widely and deeply than the analytical jurists do; it can no longer be said to reside in a determinate person or persons, but in that impalpable congeries of the hopes and fears of a people bound together by common interest and sympathy, which we call the common will" (Green's Works, 2.404).

  • They have usually no fibro-vascular system, but consist of a congeries of cells, which sometimes become elongated and compressed so as to resemble veins.

  • Composed of a congeries of nationalities which included Czechs, Magyars, Ruthenes, Rumanians, Germans, Italians, Flemings and other races, and with territories separated by many miles, the Habsburg dominions required from their ruler patience, tolerance, administrative skill and a full knowledge of the currents of European diplomacy.

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