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Webster 1913 Edition
Assemblage
1.
The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.
In sweet
assemblage
every blooming grace. Fenton.
2.
A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things;
as, a political
assemblage
; an assemblage
of ideas.
Syn. – Company; group; collection; concourse; gathering; meeting; convention.
Assemblage
, Assembly
. An assembly consists only of persons; an assemblage may be composed of things as well as persons, as, an
. Nor is every assemblage of persons an assembly; since the latter term denotes a body who have met, and are acting, in concert for some common end, such as to hear, to deliberate, to unite in music, dancing, etc. An assemblage of skaters on a lake, or of horse jockeys at a race course, is not an assembly, but might be turned into one by collecting into a body with a view to discuss and decide as to some object of common interest. assemblage
of incoherent objectsWebster 1828 Edition
Assemblage
ASSEM'BLAGE
,Noun.
1.
A collection of individuals, or of particular things; the state of being assembled.2.
Rarely, the act of assembling.Definition 2024
assemblage
assemblage
English
Noun
assemblage (plural assemblages)
- A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part
- But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh, squeeze my thighs together, shift and wriggle about my seat, with a furious restlessness; whilst these itching ardours, thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen, detached legions of burning, subtile, stimulating spirits, to their opposite spot and centre of assemblage, where their titillation raged so furiously, that I was even stinging mad with them. Memoirs of Fanny Hill
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part
Derived terms
- (energy medicine): assemblage point