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con·gre·gate  (knggr-gt)
tr. & intr.v. con·gre·gat·ed, con·gre·gat·ing, con·gre·gates
To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly. See Synonyms at gather.
adj. (-gt)
1. Gathered; assembled.
2. Involving a group: congregate living facilities for senior citizens.
[Middle English congregaten, from Latin congregre, congregt- : com-, com- + gregre, to assemble (from grex, greg-, herd; see ger- in Indo-European roots).]
congre·gative adj.
congre·gative·ness n.
congre·gator n.
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Noun1.congregating - the act of congregating
congregation
gathering, assemblage, assembly - the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly"


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As she left her apartments to make her way to the gardens where the guests were congregating, two warriors, the insignia of the House of the Prince of Helium upon their harness, followed a few paces behind her, grim reminders that the assassin's blade may never be ignored upon Barsoom, where, in a measure, it counterbalances the great natural span of human life, which is estimated at not less than a thousand years.
The Chessmen of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Some of these, congregating about the inn-yard while we changed horses, told us of great sheets of lead having been ripped off a high church-tower, and flung into a by-street, which they then blocked up.
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