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
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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
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'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
jmjarmstrong commented on the word acervation
JM realises these words are starting to form an acervation, possibly heaps of acervations!
March 5, 2009