Crossword clues for congeries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congeries \Con*ge"ri*es\, n. sing. & pl. [L., fr. congerere. See Congest.] A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin congeries "heap, pile, collected mass," from congerere "to carry together" (see congest). False singular congery is from 1866.\n\nMan should have some sense of responsibility to the human congeries. As a matter of observation, very few men have any such sense. No social order can exist very long unless a few, at least a few, men have such a sense.
[Ezra Pound, "ABC of Economics," 1933]
Wiktionary
n. A collection or aggregation of disparate items.
WordNet
n. a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn: aggregate, conglomeration]
Usage examples of "congeries".
These crystalline low-temperature, quasi-natural, and endlessly self-transformed entities had appeared as an infinitely intricate jeweled garden or huge congeries of minute machinery, a masterpiece of the blind watchmaker operating with nothing more than a faint wash of solar and stellar energy differentials and the self-organizing properties of extremophile nanobacteria.
The consequence of this theory, rigidly carried out, created a descending congeries of hells, reaching from centre to nadir, in correspondence to an ascending congeries of heavens, reaching from centre to zenith.
I liken it to the refectory at Dissentis, a Franciscan congeries of monks I once spent an afternoon with in the Romansch District of Switzerland, beneath the towering Alps.
Each winter we climb to the cave-mouth and take the netherpath to a Congeries, where we feed upon the cave straw, the waternuts and milky white mushrooms that flourish below.
He was a congeries of Eastern affectations: hair pomaded straight back, suspenders, lizardskin briefcase, bow tie, Porcellian Club cufflinks, clear-rimmed glasses, and a show-offy knowledge of French menus.
Fallen trees in every possible stage of decay, and congeries of leaves that have been rotting since the flood, cover the ground and infect the air.
She looked out at the Natural History Museum, its congeries of dull brick buildings spread across several blocks.
On one side they were massed in fleecy congeries, so crowding each other that no edge or outline was preserved.
Such prizes ,as had been borne back, exciting though they seemed to the citizenry, were paltrya prancing homunculus, statuary of jade and gold dating back to the era of starflight, a calculating mechanism in the form of a waterfowla meager congeries of triviality.
Such prizes as had been borne back, exciting though they seemed to the citizenry, were paltrya prancing homunculus, statuary of jade and gold dating back to the era of starflight, a calculating mechanism in the form of a waterfowla meager congeries of triviality.
Now Quicksilver City is a congeries of a thousand great buildings, all speeding around and around the planet, tenaciously staying in the human comfort range, growing, thriving, and above all never stopping.
It seemed to me that I was seeing a congeries of such tower-high beings and that the next moment they might begin to stride lurchingly toward me, with something of the feeling, modernistically distorted, of Macbeth's Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane.
She is a personality-construct, a congeries of software agents, the creation of information-designers.
The cell, said Haeckel, does not act, it reacts--and what is the instrument of reflection and speculation save a congeries of cells?
Having done this we have only got to settle what a thing is - when a thing is a thing pure and simple, and when it is only a congeries of things - and we shall doubtless then live very happily and very philosophically ever afterwards.