Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive & transitive verb To become or cause to become stuck or glued together.
  • intransitive & transitive verb Medicine To become or cause to become reunited, as bones or tissues.
  • adjective Relating to the abnormal adhering of tissues to one another.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To glue together; unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; reunite by adhesion; cement.
  • To adhere; coalesce; become united by the intervention of some glutinous substance.
  • Glued together; specifically, in botany, united by some adhesive substance, but not organically united: as, con-glutinate organs.

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

  • adjective Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.
  • transitive verb To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together.
  • intransitive verb To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To stick or glue together
  • verb To join together, to unite

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb stick together
  • verb cause to adhere

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English conglutinaten, from Latin conglūtināre, conglūtināt- : com-, com- + glūtināre, to glue (from glūten, glūtin-, glue).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

An adaptation of conglūtināt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin conglūtinō. Compare the French conglutiner.

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