aggest

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin aggestus, past participle of aggerere. See agger.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒɛst/

Verb edit

aggest (third-person singular simple present aggests, present participle aggesting, simple past and past participle aggested)

(obsolete) To heap up.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
  The violence of the waters aggested the earth.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “aggest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)