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What (who) is congeries - definition
congeries
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
n.
Aggregate, aggregation, agglomeration, conglomeration, compages, compage, crowd, cluster, crowded series.
congeries
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
[k?n'd???ri:z, -?z]
¦ noun (plural same) a disorderly collection.
Origin
C16: from L. congeries 'heap, pile', from congerere 'heap up'.
Congeries
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
(·noun ·sg & ·pl) A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an Aggregation.
Examples of use of congeries
1. The greatest threat facing us comes from a congeries of religious zealots like those driving up from their base in Dewsbury to kill 56 people in London.
2. A similar imperial trouble spot is Sierra Leone, another settler colony where the British imposed an alien, largely Christian, black population from Britain and Canada on to a congeries of native peoples already in thrall to Islam.