Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.