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a collection of items or parts in one mass, assemblage, aggregation, heap (used with a sing. or pl. verb  thefreedictionary.com); a collection, an aggregation (used with a sing. verb: Our city, it should be explained, is two cities, or more—an urban mass or congeries divided by the river. (John Updike thefreedictionary.com); a collection or aggregation of disparate items (And when the Newtonian philosophy gained ground in Europe, it was the opinion of Cotes rather than that of Newton that became most prevalent, till at last Boscovich propounded his theory, that matter is a congeries of mathematical points... (1876) • The world has seen the postal system developed from a congeries of independent and exclusive services into a well-ordered union, of which all countries enjoy the manifold benefits. (1898) • By short cuts known to him, he made his way now through the vast congeries of rooms and staircases to the banqueting-hall, five acres distant on the other side of the house. (Virginia Woolf, 1928) • Two of the less irrelevantly moving things - a rather large congeries of iridescent, prolately spheroidal bubbles and a very much smaller polyhedron of unknown colours and rapidly shifting surface angles - seemed to take notice of him and follow him about or float ahead as he changed position... (H. P. Lovecraft, 1932) • The three of them could hardly tell themselves apart, became a sort of congeries of loving emotions, all mutually complementary. (1974) • That whole congeries of values was now in question. (2003) wiktionary.org); a collection of particles, parts, or things, a heap, a group of things heaped together (congeries of ballads; congeries of furniture shops; congeries of repugnant affections (1619) • congeries of rocks, (1793) • congeries of dead and stupid matter (1679) • congeries of towers, halls, churches, and chambers (1875) • congeries of stars (1849) • congeries of watery particles (1725) thefreedictionary.com) |
