Con·gre·gate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Congregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Congregating] To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. --Hooker.
Cold congregates all bodies. --Coleridge.
The great receptacle
Of congregated waters he called Seas. --Milton.
congregating
n : the act of congregating [syn: congregation]