Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of heaping together.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A heaping up; accumulation.

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  • noun rare A heaping up; accumulation - Johnson

Etymologies

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Latin acervatio

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Examples

  • Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature, like damp hay, they heat and inflame by co-acervation; or like bees they become restless and irritable through the increased temperature of collected multitudes.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • 'Fanatici-qui circum fana favorem mutuo contrahunt el afflant' -- those who in the same conventicle, or before the same shrine, relique or image, heat and ferment by co-acervation.

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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  • JM realises these words are starting to form an acervation, possibly heaps of acervations!

    March 5, 2009