Congregate(a.) Collected; compact; close.
Congregate(v. i.) To come together; to assemble; to meet.
Congregate(v. t.) To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
Congregated(imp. & p. p.) of Congregate
Congregating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Congregate
Congregation(n.) The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
Congregation(n.) A collection or mass of separate things.
Congregation(n.) An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
Congregation(n.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
Congregation(n.) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
Congregation(n.) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
Congregation(n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
Congregation(n.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.
Congregational(a.) Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.
Congregational(a.) Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church.
Congregationalism(n.) That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.
Congregationalism(n.) The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.
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