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Amalgamate   /əmˈælgəmˌeɪt/   Listen
Amalgamate

verb
(past & past part. amalgamated; pres. part. amalgamating)
1.
To bring or combine together or with something else.  Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify.






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"Amalgamate" Quotes from Famous Books



... outset, as we have remarked above, a distinct and broad line between these two realms, it keeps them apart from each other, by affirming a difference in essence, and steadfastly resists any and every attempt to amalgamate them into one sole substance. The doctrine of creation, and not of emanation or of modification, is the doctrine by which it constructs its theory of the Universe, and the doctrine of responsible self-determination, and not of irresponsible natural development, ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

... in financial matters: several times in this period the whole of the money in the state treasury was handed out to soldiers to prevent them from going over to some enemy or other. On the other hand, there was a tendency in the south for the many neighbouring states to amalgamate, and as this process took place close to the frontier of North China the northern states could not passively look on. During the "Later Han" period there were wars and risings, which continued in the time of the ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard

... from the fatuous optimism of the man who expects the world to last at least his time. Some of them said something about "this great country", as if it were chartered by the Almighty to stand the assaults of other races, and when he reminded them that Addington was not trying to amalgamate its aliens with its own ideals, and was giving them over instead to Weedon Moore, they laughed ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

... prospects whatever; but I am sure of this, that he grieves over my lost inheritance far more than he grieves over his own ruin. His great misery is that some years ago he refused an offer from Messrs. F—— to amalgamate the two firms. ...
— The Altar Fire • Arthur Christopher Benson

... habits of cruelty. In the total annihilation of their power was the only hope of peace. This being accomplished, the surviving remnant would, according to the usual custom among the Indians, readily amalgamate with the victorious tribes, and then a general alliance with the French could be easily secured. This was what Champlain wished to accomplish. The pacification of all the tribes occupying both sides of the St. Lawrence and the chain of northern lakes would place the whole domain of ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain

... friendships are soon formed. Ere disappointment has done its work, and experience taught its salutary, though painful lesson, there is little room for suspicion on either side, and the hearts of the parties amalgamate, like meeting waters. Thus, the two became friends, almost before they could understand the meaning ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III • Various

... luxury is vastly improved by being mixed some days before it is required for use; this gives the various ingredients time to amalgamate ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 • Various

... therefore, all expectations of being able to accomplish an impossibility. Put not your mind to sleep with the opiate, that in some inexplicable manner you will be able to live the life of a worldly man upon earth, and then the life of a spiritual man in heaven. There is no alchemy that can amalgamate substances that refuse to mix. No man has ever yet succeeded, no man ever will succeed, in securing both the pleasures of sin and the pleasures of holiness,—in living the life of Dives, and then going to ...
— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd

... Jesus Christ! Long live the Republic!" is the usual beginning of one of his orations, so that his enemies accuse him in the first place of being a hypocrite, and in the second of holding views which cannot possibly amalgamate with those of monarchical Serbia. But the reference to Christ appears perfectly natural to the Croat peasant—at an open-air meeting of 10,000 of them I saw their heads uncovered, and all bowed in prayer for ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein



Words linked to "Amalgamate" :   blend, alter, amalgamative, united, modify, immingle, aggregate, concoct, amalgam, change, compound, intermix, intermingle, amalgamator, combine



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