Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AG-GLOM'ER-A-TING, ppr.

Winding into a ball; gathering into a lump.

AG-GLOM-ER-A'TION, n.

The act of winding into a ball; the state of being gathered into a ball or mass.

AG-GLU'TIN-ANT, a.

Uniting as glue; tending to cause adhesion.

AG-GLU'TIN-ANT, n.

Any viscous substance which unites other substances, by causing an adhesion; any application which tends to unite parts which have too little adhesion. Coxe.

AG-GLU'TIN-ATE, v.t. [Lat. agglutino, ad and glutino, from gluten; Eng. glue; Fr. glu; Arm. glud; W. glyd. See Glue.]

To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

AG-GLU'TIN-A-TED, pp.

Glued together; united by a viscous substance.

AG-GLU'TIN-A-TING, ppr.

Gluing together; uniting by causing adhesion.

AG-GLU-TIN-A'TION, n.

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united.

AG-GLU'TIN-A-TIVE, a.

That tends to unite, or has power to cause adhesion.

AG-GRACE', n.

Kindness; favor. [Not used.] Spenser.

AG-GRACE', v.t.

To favor. [Not used.] Spenser. Wiseman.

AG'GRAND-IZ-A-BLE, a.

That may be aggrandized.

AG-GRAND-IZ-A'TION, n.

The act of aggrandizing. [Not used.] Waterhouse.

AG-GRAND-IZE', v.t. [Fr. agrandir, of L. ad and grandis. See Grand.]

1. To make great or greater in power, rank or honor; to exalt; as, to aggrandize a family.
2. To enlarge, applied to things; as, to aggrandize our conceptions. It seems to be never applied to the bulk or dimensions of material bodies.

AG'GRAND-IZ-ED, pp.

Made great or greater; exalted; enlarged.

AG-GRAND'IZE-MENT, n.

The act of aggrandizing; the state of being exalted in power, rank or honor; exaltation; enlargement; as, the Emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

AG'GRAND-IZ-ER, n.

One that aggrandizes or exalts in power, rank or honor.

AG'GRAND-IZ-ING, ppr.

Making great; exalting; enlarging.

AG-GRATE', v.t. [It.]

To please. [Not used.] Spenser.

AG'GRA-VATE, v.t. [L. aggravo, of ad and gravis, heavy. See Grave, Gravity.]

1. To make heavy, but not used in this literal sense. Figuratively, to make worse, more severe, or less tolerable; as, to aggravate the evils of life; to aggravate pain or punishment.
2. To make more enormous, or less excusable; as, to aggravate a crime.
3. To exaggerate.
4. To give coloring in description; to give an exaggerated representation; as, to aggravate a charge against an offender; to aggravate circumstances. Guthrie. Quint. Paley. Actions and motives maliciously aggravated. Washington's Life. The propriety of the word in the latter passage is questionable. Aggravate is generally used in reference to evils, or something improper or unnatural.

AG'GRA-VA-TED, pp.

Increased in severity or enormity; made worse; exaggerated.

AG'GRA-VA-TING, ppr.

Increasing in severity, enormity, or degree; as evils, misfortunes, pain, punishment, crimes, guilt, &c.; exaggerating.

AG-GRA-VA'TION, n.

1. The act of making worse, used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing severity or hainousness; addition to that which is evil or improper; as, an aggravation of pain or grief.
2. Exaggerated representation, or heightened description of any thing wrong, improper, or unnatural; as, an aggravation of features in a caricature. Paley. Addison.

AG'GRE-GATE, a.

Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; as, the aggregate amount of charges. Aggregate flowers, in botany, are such as are composed of florets united by means of the receptacle or calyx. Milne. Aggregate corporation, in law, is one which consists of two or more persons united, whose existence is preserved by a succession of new members. Blackstone.

AG'GRE-GATE, n.

A sum, mass, or assemblage of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stones, brick, timber, &c. It differs from a compound in this, that the particulars of an aggregate are less intimately mixed than in a compound.