eglomerate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin eglomero, eglomeratus, from e- + glomeratus.
Verb
editeglomerate (third-person singular simple present eglomerates, present participle eglomerating, simple past and past participle eglomerated)
- (rare, transitive, intransitive) To unwind, as a thread from a ball.
- 1845, Heidelberg and the way thither:
- At another signal from Barelegs, their tails gradually eglomerated, and all joyfully made away from the shore, landing in the same order about seventy yards lower down.
- 1969, Nandu Singh, Dayal yoga, page 5:
- They are a mighty force to reckon with; they are the most esteemed, revered and reverenced; they are the most liked and lovable kindly souls; they have no likes and dislikes; they are purely spiritual, they effuse effulgence and eglomerate all knots of man's obstacles, sufferings and worries, spiritual, mental and material.
- 2015 June 16, Kate Kunkel, “Reclaiming Water from Oil Production”, in Valve magazine:
- They attach themselves to the eglomerated solids and oil particles and lift them to the surface of the water.
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “eglomerate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “eglomerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.