Definition of Congeries. Meaning of Congeries. Synonyms of Congeries

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Definition of Congeries

Congeries
Congeries Con*ge"ri*es, n. sing & pl. [L., fr. congerere. See Congest.] A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.

Meaning of Congeries from wikipedia

- article on "congeries", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "congeries" You can also: Search for Congeries in Wikipedia...
- Nabokov's Congeries was a collection of work by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov. It was edited by Page...
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- other stories Speak, Memory Nabokov's Dozen Nabokov's Quartet Nabokov's Congeries Cloud, Castle, Lake A Russian Beauty and Other Stories Tyrants Destro****...
- specific; he intended to cover a select group of people who p****ed through a congeries of elite American institutions: certain eastern prep schools, the Ivy...
- during 1959. The story was included in Nabokov's Quartet (1966), Nabokov's Congeries (1968; reprinted as The Portable Nabokov, 1971), Tyrants Destro**** and...
- terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary...
- days. Walter Lippmann famously noted: At the end of February we were a congeries of disorderly panic-stricken mobs and factions. In the hundred days from...
- 900 ft). The elevations do not form continuous chains, but make up a congeries of short ridges and groups rising from a common base and intersected by...
- several papers like "Solitary Indignation", "Five Vermin", "Inner and Outer Congeries of Sayings", "Collected Persuasions", and "Difficulties in the Way of...