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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a herd; gregarious; specifically, belonging to the herd or common sort; ordinary.

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

  • adjective obsolete Gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common.

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  • adjective obsolete gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort

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Examples

  • It took a couple of seconds for Don to place in his mind just what a gregarian was.

    Between Planets Heinlein, Robert A. 1951

  • The plate of baked gregarian was removed and Dr. Jefferson ordered something for him called a "Mount Etna."

    Between Planets Heinlein, Robert A. 1951

  • He saw at once, that, sensitive as she was to every impression, this fear was a contagious one, a mere gregarian affinity, and that she needed the preponderating warmth and strength of a protecting presence, the influence of a fuller vitality.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • There is a struggle between its members motived by the desire for individual expression and gain; and, alongside of it, a sense of solidarity, a movement to mutual, reciprocal relations, motived by the gregarian instinct.

    Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles John Spargo 1921

  • Where the vibrations of matter are low, its responsive movement is gregarian rather than individual.

    Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905

  • Living in rows, conducting our movements and our apparel as nearly as possible in accordance with the hitch of the moment, singing the songs our neighbours sing -- this is Order, but gregarian order.

    Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905

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  • (adjective) - (1) Of the common sort; ordinary; related to gregarius belonging to a herd.

    --William Grimshaw's Ladies' Lexicon and Parlour Companion, 1854

    (2) Of a soldier, common, a private. Gregarianism, the practice of collecting in flocks or companies.

    --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901

    January 21, 2018