The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Congregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Congregating] To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be
termed by the name of a church.
--Hooker.
Cold congregates all bodies.
--Coleridge.
The great receptacle
Of congregated waters he called Seas.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: congregate)
Usage examples of "congregated".
Florian again gave everything a close appraisal, then he and the others congregated around the elephant.
As if the circus had been expected, all the local children immediately congregated to troop and dance along with it, or to run ahead crying warning of the elephant to everybody with a horse.
Edge, using one of the Henry repeater carbines, shot the scavenger birds that congregated whenever Doc emptied the galley slops overside.
But most of the holiday crowd congregated in the Wurstelprater, to sample the wares and attractions of the entresorts and game booths and mechanical rides.
Magpie Maggie Hag and Bernhard Notkin went together to where mostly old people congregated, the checkered concrete tables thoughtfully provided by the City Park, to play a game of chess.
Most of the population will be congregated in the Palace Square to watch the ceremonies and participate in the festivities there, so not many people will be on the streets to see when and how you depart.
Most of the passengers had congregated at the back of the ship, and they gazed eagerly over the water.
He looked around him at the congregated citizens, staring and reaching out for him, calling solicitous, and he drew back his head and began to howl.
Pickwick's face, albeit somewhat flushed with exertion, as he stood with his arms firmly clasped round the extensive waist of their corpulent host, thus restraining the impetuosity of his passion, while the fat boy was scratched, and pulled, and pushed from the room by all the females congregated therein.
Pickwick, in company with Jingle, talking very earnestly, and not bestowing a look on the groups who were congregated on the racket-ground.
I strove, I resolved, to force myself to see the Plebeian multitude and lofty Patrician forms congregated around.
So the old lady was always standing on the store side of the white picket fence picking her shots among those congregated on the porch, and this had been going on for such a long time that nobody really noticed Mercedes anymore, nor paid much attention to the white pebbles that bounced harmlessly among them like hailstones.
Graceful purple martins congregated around an elaborate miniature apartment house on a pole nearby.
A lot of activity was going on near the entrance to the lodge and most of the Camp had congregated there.
Deegie announced to the several people who were congregated at the fourth hearth.