• IPA: /kəŋˈɡləʊb/

conglobe (conglobes, present participle conglobing; past and past participle conglobed)

1. (archaic, poetic, ambitransitive) To conglobate; to collect into a round mass.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread,
     And vital virtue infused and vital warmth,
     Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purged
     The black, tartareous, cold, infernal, dregs
     Adverse to life: then founded, then conglobed
     Like things to like.

   • But what means this? The downy swathes combine,
     Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff
     Curdles about her!