Definitions
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
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It took a couple of seconds for Don to place in his mind just what a gregarian was.
Between Planets Heinlein, Robert A. 1951
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The plate of baked gregarian was removed and Dr. Jefferson ordered something for him called a "Mount Etna."
Between Planets Heinlein, Robert A. 1951
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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
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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
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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
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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
Gammerstang commented on the word gregarian
(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