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Definition of congeries in English: congeriesnoun kɒnˈdʒɪəriːzˈkɒndʒərɪzˈkɑndʒəriz A disorderly collection; a jumble. 聚集；堆积；混乱的一堆 a congeries of European states 散乱的欧洲国家。 Example sentencesExamples - This congeries of topics enhances his story of the development of early American crime literature.
- To a materialist, we are just congeries of atoms; and atoms must go whithersoever they are driven by the laws of physics and blind chance.
- Japan's most established party of government was formed in 1955 as a congeries of centre and conservative groupings with the encouragement of business interests.
- He endorses the conventional assumption that virtu is the name of that congeries of qualities which enables a prince to ally with Fortune and obtain honour, glory, and fame.
- Perhaps what is most remarkable about this elaborate congeries of thematic threads is that they never lead the poem into preciousness or turn it into an exercise in facility.
- It overshadows all other holidays and specialized days of whatever sort in that congeries of colonies.
- In the very earliest works, humankind is most often figured as species, positioned within geological epochs and in elemental settings, rather than as a congeries of social beings within a recognizably human history.
- The country, then a congeries of local economies and cultures, was not seeking what the presidential office was constitutionally designed to offer, namely, energetic leadership in behalf of national initiatives.
- For the Galaxy is nothing else than a congeries of innumerable stars distributed in clusters.
- The Dutch artist's vocabulary consists of forms such as beds; materials such as blankets, paper and string; and congeries of miscellaneous and banal found objects often presented in groups of five.
- It was on the periphery that the idea of ‘the British Empire as a congeries of territories linked by their commerce, united with common interests and centred politically upon London’ was most compelling.
- As an archetypal constellation, he treats the trickster both as a congeries of abstractions and as a powerful, sometimes inspiring, sometimes destructive, and often possessing psychological force.
- Classical atomists conceived the universe as nothing more than an eternal congeries of material particles of different shapes and sizes perpetually in motion and continually coalescing to form unstable natural bodies.
- They started as congeries of commercial partnerships with a shared interest in excluding interlopers and securing the safety of their ships and fixed assets in parts of the world where no efficient or friendly state was to be found.
- Business in his day was a congeries of disconnected ventures.
- Whence this peculiar congeries of views, advanced with supreme self-confidence and heedless inattention to fact?
- Well, what about this particular congeries of curses?
- But this distinction does nothing to encourage us to think in terms of a single super-system or total view, rather than a congeries of relatively independent sub-systems.
- This is a point that may yet come home to cities that are currently embracing big-box retail development in place of the congeries of small shops and homes that exist now.
- It is difficult not to believe that at times our judges, in trying to craft general principles from of a confusing congeries of conflicting case-law, have simply failed adequately to understand it or the principles behind it.
Synonyms untidy heap, confused heap, clutter, muddle, mess, confusion, welter, disarray, disarrangement, tangle, litter
OriginMid 16th century: from Latin congeries 'heap, pile', from congerere 'heap up'. Definition of congeries in US English: congeriesnounˈkänjərēzˈkɑndʒəriz A disorderly collection; a jumble. 聚集；堆积；混乱的一堆 whiffs of ground coffee and a congeries of smells Example sentencesExamples - This congeries of topics enhances his story of the development of early American crime literature.
- To a materialist, we are just congeries of atoms; and atoms must go whithersoever they are driven by the laws of physics and blind chance.
- This is a point that may yet come home to cities that are currently embracing big-box retail development in place of the congeries of small shops and homes that exist now.
- The country, then a congeries of local economies and cultures, was not seeking what the presidential office was constitutionally designed to offer, namely, energetic leadership in behalf of national initiatives.
- It overshadows all other holidays and specialized days of whatever sort in that congeries of colonies.
- Well, what about this particular congeries of curses?
- In the very earliest works, humankind is most often figured as species, positioned within geological epochs and in elemental settings, rather than as a congeries of social beings within a recognizably human history.
- Japan's most established party of government was formed in 1955 as a congeries of centre and conservative groupings with the encouragement of business interests.
- It is difficult not to believe that at times our judges, in trying to craft general principles from of a confusing congeries of conflicting case-law, have simply failed adequately to understand it or the principles behind it.
- As an archetypal constellation, he treats the trickster both as a congeries of abstractions and as a powerful, sometimes inspiring, sometimes destructive, and often possessing psychological force.
- Whence this peculiar congeries of views, advanced with supreme self-confidence and heedless inattention to fact?
- They started as congeries of commercial partnerships with a shared interest in excluding interlopers and securing the safety of their ships and fixed assets in parts of the world where no efficient or friendly state was to be found.
- Business in his day was a congeries of disconnected ventures.
- He endorses the conventional assumption that virtu is the name of that congeries of qualities which enables a prince to ally with Fortune and obtain honour, glory, and fame.
- But this distinction does nothing to encourage us to think in terms of a single super-system or total view, rather than a congeries of relatively independent sub-systems.
- Perhaps what is most remarkable about this elaborate congeries of thematic threads is that they never lead the poem into preciousness or turn it into an exercise in facility.
- It was on the periphery that the idea of ‘the British Empire as a congeries of territories linked by their commerce, united with common interests and centred politically upon London’ was most compelling.
- Classical atomists conceived the universe as nothing more than an eternal congeries of material particles of different shapes and sizes perpetually in motion and continually coalescing to form unstable natural bodies.
- For the Galaxy is nothing else than a congeries of innumerable stars distributed in clusters.
- The Dutch artist's vocabulary consists of forms such as beds; materials such as blankets, paper and string; and congeries of miscellaneous and banal found objects often presented in groups of five.
Synonyms untidy heap, confused heap, clutter, muddle, mess, confusion, welter, disarray, disarrangement, tangle, litter
OriginMid 16th century: from Latin congeries ‘heap, pile’, from congerere ‘heap up’. |