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verb

Amalgamate v. t. (past & past part. amalgamated; pres. part. amalgamating)

To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.

To mix, so as to make a uniform compound; to unite or combine; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. "Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one."

Amalgamate v. i.

To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.

To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.

adjective

Amalgamated, Amalgamate adj. Coalesced; united; combined.

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Etymology of 'Amalgamated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Amalgamated" Quotes from Famous Books

... subsequently attracted into the central nucleus; thus in addition to the convictions which all mystics share, we find, in many of them, other convictions of a more local and temporary character, which no doubt become amalgamated with what was essentially mystical in virtue of their subjective certainty. We may ignore such inessential accretions, and confine ourselves to the beliefs which all ...

— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell

... they will be passed without mention. Kuhn presents an exhaustive analysis of 73 cases of congenital defects of the movements of the eyes, considered clinically and didactically. Some or all of the muscles may be absent or two or more may be amalgamated, with anomalies of insertion, ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... spirited charger; brother Michael on a large heavy-trotting horse; and the little fat friar on a plump soft-paced galloway, so correspondent with himself in size, rotundity, and sleekness, that if they had been amalgamated into a centaur, there would have been nothing ...

— Maid Marian • Thomas Love Peacock

... "Nobody, you amalgamated turnip. I'm going to write to dad, and settle this college business. Might as well make a decision now as ...

— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes

... or any of those places. Don't you know about him? How ignorant literary people can be! Why, he was the Amalgamated Clothespin. You haven't heard ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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