v. t. [ L. ablegatus, p. p. of ablegare; ab + legare to send with a commission. See Legate. ] To send abroad. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R. C. Ch.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ablegatio. ] The act of sending abroad. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abnegated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abnegating. ] [ L. abnegatus, p. p. of abnegare; ab + negare to deny. See Deny. ] To deny and reject; to abjure. Sir E. Sandys. Farrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abnegatio: cf. F. abnégation. ] a denial; a renunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abnegativus. ] Denying; renouncing; negative. [ R. ] Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adlegatio, allegatio, a sending away; fr. adlegare, allegare, to send away with a commission; ad in addition + legare to send as ambassador. Cf. Allegation. ] A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Aggregated p. pr. & vb. n. Aggregating. ] [ L. aggregatus, p. p. of aggregare to lead to a flock or herd; ad + gregare to collect into a flock, grex flock, herd. See Gregarious. ] 1. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The aggregated soil.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is many times hard to discern to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated. Wollaston. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aggregatus, p. p. ] 1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective. [ 1913 Webster ]

The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporation aggregate. (Law) See under Corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a compound. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the aggregate, collectively; together. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Collectively; in mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. aggregatio, F. agrégation. ] The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each genus is made up by aggregation of species. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers, and in space. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Fr. agrégatif. ] 1. Taken together; collective. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gregarious; social. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. tending to gather into a mass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who aggregates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. allegatio, fr. allegare, allegatum, to send a message, cite; later, to free by giving reasons; ad + legare to send, commission. Cf. Allege and Adlegation. ] 1. The act of alleging or positively asserting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment [ 1913 Webster ]

I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (R. C. Ch.) The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior to a nuncio. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A joint legatee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. collegetarius. See Legatary. ] (Law) A joint legatee. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. congregatus, p. p. of congregare to congregate; on- + gregare to collect into a flock, fr. grex flock, herd. See Gregarious. ] Collected; compact; close. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Congregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Congregating ] To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cold congregates all bodies. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great receptacle
Of congregated waters he called Seas. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To come together; to assemble; to meet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even there where merchants most do congregate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. congregatio: cf. F. congrégation. ] 1. The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection or mass of separate things. [ 1913 Webster ]

A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Bunyan ] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Anc. Jewish Hist.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a sin offering for the congregation. Lev. iv. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (R. C. Ch.) (a) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church. (b) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Scotch Church Hist.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense (which is its usual signification) Congregationalism is the system of faith and practice common to a large body of evangelical Trinitarian churches, which recognize the local brotherhood of each church as independent of all dictation in ecclesiastical matters, but are united in fellowship and joint action, as in councils for mutual advice, and in consociations, conferences, missionary organizations, etc., and to whose membership the designation “Congregationalists” is generally restricted; but Unitarian and other churches are Congregational in their polity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. delegatus, p. p. of delegare to send, delegate; de- + legare to send with a commission, to depute. See Legate. ] 1. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting. (b) 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Court of delegates, formerly, the great court of appeal from the archbishops' courts and also from the court of admiralty. It is now abolished, and the privy council is the immediate court of appeal in such cases. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. delegatus, p. p. ] Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge. “Delegate power.” Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Delegated p. pr. & vb. n. Delegating ] 1. To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The delegated administration of the law. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Delegated executive power. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

The power exercised by the legislature is the people's power, delegated by the people to the legislative. J. B. Finch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions.
Syn. -- delegation, relegating, relegation, deputation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. delegatio: cf. F. délégation. ] 1. The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Rom. Law) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. Pothier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. delegatorius pert. to an assignment. ] Holding a delegated position. Nash. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. denegatus, p. p. of denegare. See Deny. ] To deny. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dénégation. ] Denial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to eliminate laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using (certain locations, organizations, or facilities); to introduce members of a racial or religious group into (a community, facility, or organization from which they had been barred). [ PJC ]

n. the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community; the elimination of laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using certain locations, organizations, or facilities. In the 1960's and 1970's civil rights legislation was passed by the U. S. congress, prohibiting segregation by governmental agencies and in places of public accommodation, which resulteo in widospread besegregotion of schools and places of business. Some segregation remains in privately operated organizations.
Syn. -- integration, integrating. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. désagrégation. ] The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. disgregare; dis- + gregare to collect, fr. grex, gregis, flock or herd. ] To disperse; to scatter; -- opposite of congregate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem. & Physics) 1. Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other. Contrasted with neutral and electropositive [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Negative; nonmetallic; acidic; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physics) carrying a negative electrical charge. [ PJC ]

4. (Chem. and Physics) having a tendency to take up electrons and form negative ions; having a relatively positive electrode potential. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Chem. & Physics) A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis; an anion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. Same as Forgather. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The type genus of the Fregatidae.
Syn. -- genus Fregata. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A natural family including the genus Fregata, of frigate birds.
Syn. -- family Fregatidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. legatarius, fr. legaturius enjoined by a last will: cf. F. légataire. See Legacy. ] A legatee. [ R. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. legat, L. legatus, fr. legare to send with a commission or charge, to depute, fr. lex, legis, law: cf. F. légat, It. legato. See Legal. ] 1. An ambassador or envoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Legates are of three kinds: (a) Legates a latere, now always cardinals. They are called ordinary or extraordinary legates, the former governing provinces, and the latter class being sent to foreign countries on extraordinary occasions. (b) Legati missi, who correspond to the ambassadors of temporal governments. (c) Legati nati, or legates by virtue of their office, as the archbishops of Salzburg and Prague. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Rom. Hist.) (a) An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province. (b) Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Legacy. ] (Law) One to whom a legacy is bequeathed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a legate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Made by, proceeding from, or under the sanction of, a legate; as, a legatine constitution. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]