Today's Word "congeries"
A collection or aggregation.
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congeries \KON-juh-reez\ (noun) - A collection; an aggregation.
"If the 'en masse' feels its effects it does so not as a unit but as a congeries of individuals; a wave there may be, but it is a wave of integers dominated by a common thought or purpose." -- Bram Stoker, 'Dracula'
Congeries is from Latin congeries, "a heap, a mass," from congerere, "to carry together, to bring together, to collect," from com-, "with, together" + gerere, "to carry." It is related to congest, "to overfill or overcrowd," which derives from the past participle of congerere.
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