conglobe means to collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate. It carries an Arena rating of 1352, earned across 7 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, conglobe ranks #783 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #2,710 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #2,788 of 17,143 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #3,145 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say.
conglobe is pronounced /kəŋˈɡləʊb/.
Why “conglobe” is a great word
To gather distinct elements into a single, rounded mass. Its etymology traces from French *conglober*, from Latin *conglobāre*, to form into a ball, from *con-* (together) + *globus* (ball, sphere). Unlike "conglomerate," which amalgamates disparate things, or "accumulate," which merely amasses without form, to conglobe is to enact a deliberate, spherical unity. It is the hand shaping wet clay into a perfect orb, the slow geological clumping of cosmic dust into a world, or raindrops merging on a pane into a single, heavy bead—the quiet satisfaction of giving the scattered a perfect, lonely shape.
Etymology
From French conglober, from Latin conglobāre, the present active infinitive of conglobō (“to gather into a ball; to accumulate; to crowd together”), from con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects) + globus (“round object, globe, sphere; glob; group”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball; a ball”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
verb
- To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.e.g.“Not closer, orb in orb, conglob’d are seen / The buzzing Bees about their dusky Queen.” — 1667, Alexander Pope, “Book IV”, in The Dunciad^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Dunciad_-_Alexander_Pope_(1728).djvu/194), page 163:
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