Acervation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of heaping together.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A heaping up; accumulation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A heaping up; accumulation - Johnson
  • Word Usage
    "Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature, like damp hay, they heat and inflame by co-acervation; or like bees they become restless and irritable through the increased temperature of collected multitudes."
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