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congeries

[kon-jeer-eez, kon-juh-reez]

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noun (used with a singular or plural verb)

a collection of items or parts in one mass; assemblage; aggregation; heap: From the airplane the town resembled a congeries of tiny boxes.

Origin:
1610–20; < Latin: a heap, equivalent to conger- (stem of congerere to collect, heap up, equivalent to con- con- + gerere to bear, carry) + -iēs noun suffix; compare rabies, series

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congeries (kɒnˈdʒɪəriːz)

—n
	(functioning as singular or plural) a collection of objects or ideas; mass; heap

[C17: from Latin, from congerere to pile up, from gerere to carry]

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congeries

1610s, from L. congeries "heap, pile, collected mass," from congerere "to carry together" (see congest). False sing. congery is from 1866.

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"Athletes and actors—let actors stand for the set of performing artists—share much. They share the need to make gesture as fluid and economical as possible, to make out of a welter of choices the single, precisely right one. They share the need for impeccable and split-second timing. They share the need for thousands of hours of practice in order to train the body to become the perfect, instinctive instrument to express. Both athlete and actor, out of that congeries of emotion, choice, strategy, knowledge of terrain, mood of spectators, condition of spectators in the ensemble, secret awareness of injury or weakness, and as nearly an absolute concentration as possible so that all externalities are integrated, all distraction absorbed to the self, must be able to change the self so successfully that it changes us."

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