Collected; compact; close. [R.] Bacon.
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.
To come together; to assemble; to meet. Even there where merchants most do congregate. Shak.
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