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The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.

The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.

One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism.

lied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. Conjugate axis of a hyperbola (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci. -- Conjugate diameters (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects…

the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage. [Obs.] Mixtures and conjugations of atoms. Bentley.

relating to conjugation. Ellis.

awing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated…

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

To weary or tire out; to fatigue. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

Weariness; fatigue. [R.] Bacon.

One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution. [U.S.] Court of delegates, formerly, the great court of appeal from the archbishops' courts and also from the court of admiralty. It is now abolis…

The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

Holding a delegated position. Nash.

To bind up; to bandage.

A binding up; a bandaging. Wiseman.

To chide; to rail heartily. [Obs.]

Chiding; brawl. [Obs.]

To deny. [Obs.]