Ag*glom"er*a*tive (&?;), a. Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.
Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative.
Coleridge.
Ag*glu"ti*nant (&?;), a. [L. agglutinans, -antis, p. pr. of agglutinare.] Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n. Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.
Ag*glu"ti*nate (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agglutinated (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Agglutinating.] [L. agglutinatus, p. p. of agglutinare to glue or cement to a thing; ad + glutinare to glue; gluten glue. See Glue.] To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
Ag*glu"ti*nate (&?;), a. 1. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
2. (physiol.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.
Ag*glu`ti*na"tion (&?;), n. [Cf. F. agglutination.] 1. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
2. (Physiol.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.
Ag*glu"ti*na*tive (&?;), a. [Cf. F. agglutinatif.] 1. Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
2. (Philol.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound.
In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds.
R. Morris.
Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages.
R. Morris.
Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots.
Max Müller.
Ag*grace" (&?;), v. t. [Pref. a- + grace: cf. It. aggraziare, LL. aggratiare. See Grace.] To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.
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Ag*grace" (&?;), n. Grace; favor. [Obs.] Spenser.
Ag"gran*di"za*ble (&?;), a. Capable of being aggrandized.
Ag*gran`di*za"tion (&?;), n. Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.
Ag"gran*dize (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggrandized (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrandizing (&?;).] [F. agrandir; à (L. ad) + grandir to increase, L. grandire, fr. grandis great. See Grand, and cf. Finish.] 1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.
His scheme for aggrandizing his son.
Prescott.