Dictionary: AG'GRE-GATE – AG'ILE-NESS

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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.

AG'GRE-GATE, v.t. [L. aggrego, to collect in troops; of ad and grex, a herd or band. See Gregarious.]

To bring together; to collect particulars into a sum, mass or body.

AG'GRE-GA-TED, pp.

Collected into a sum, mass or system.

AG'GRE-GATE-LY, adv.

Collectively; taken in a sum or mass.

AG'GRE-GA-TING, ppr.

Collecting into a sum or mass.

AG-GRE-GA'TION, n.

  1. The act of aggregating; the state being collected into a sum or mass; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
  2. Aggregation is caused by that attraction which takes place at an insensible distance between the homogeneous particles of bodies, and forms masses.
  3. The union and coherence of bodies of the same nature.

AG'GRE-GA-TIVE, a.

Taken together; collective.

AG'GRE-GA-TOR, n.

He that collects into a whole or mass. – Burton.

AG-GRESS', v.i. [L. aggredior, aggressus, of ad and gradior, to go. See Grade.]

To make a first attack; to commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to assault first or invade. – Prior.

AG-GRESS'ING, ppr.

Commencing hostility first; making the first attack.

AG-GRESS'ION, n.

The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or controversy. – L'Estrange.

AG-GRESS'IVE, a.

Tending to aggress; making the first attack. – Clarkson.

AG-GRESS'OR, n.

The person who first attacks; he who first commences hostility or a quarrel; an assaulter; an invader. – Dryden. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. – Ames.

AG-GRIEV'ANCE, n. [See Aggrieve.]

Oppression; hardship; injury. But grievance is more generally used.

AG'GRIEVE, v.i.

To mourn; to lament. [Not used. See Grieve.]

AG-GRIEVE', v.t. [of ad and grieve, from grief. Perhaps the word is borrowed directly from the Sp. agraviar, to injure; Fr. grever. See Grief and Grave.]

  1. To give pain or sorrow; to afflict.
  2. To bear hard upon; to oppress or injure in one's rights; to vex or harass by civil or political injustice.

AG-GRIEV'ED, pp.

Pained; afflicted; civilly or politically oppressed.

AG-GRIEV'ING, ppr.

Afflicting; imposing hardships on; oppressing.

AG-GROUP', or AG-GROOP', v.t. [Sp. agrupar; It. aggruppare, aggroppare, to knot or bring together. See Group.]

To bring together; to group; to collect many persons in a crowd, or many figures into a whole, either in statuary, painting, or description. – Encyc.

AG-GROUP'ED, or AG-GROOP'ED, pp.

Collected into a group or assemblage.

A-GHAST', a. [or adv. or more correctly AGAST. Perhaps the participle of agaze; otherwise from the root of ghastly and ghost.]

Struck with amazement; stupefied with sudden fright or horror.

AG'ILE, a. [Fr. agile; L. agilis, from ago. See Act.]

Nimble; having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; brisk; active. And bending forward, struck his agile heels. – Shak.

A'GILE-LY, adv.

In a nimble manner.

AG'ILE-NESS, n.

Nimbleness; activity; the faculty of moving the limbs quickly.