malgamate

t. & i. [Eng. amalgam; -ate. In Ger. amalgam i ren; Fr. amalgamer; Sp. & Port. amalgamar; Ital. amalgam are.] A. Transitive: 1. Lit.: To unite or alloy a metal with quicksilver. "When the zine is pure, or its surface amalgamated with mercury -Graham: Chem., 2nd ed., vol. 1, p. 245. 2. Fig .: To compound two things together. "Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one."-Burke. an inclination to amalgamate Eastern beliefs with Greek philosophy."-Duke of Somerset: Christian Theol., xii. 66. B. Intransitive: To mix together intimately, to blend, to merge into one, to become united. ( Lit. or fig .) "The feudal system had, some centuries before, been introduced into the hill-country, but had neither destroyed the patriarchal system nor amalgamated completely with it."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , Eng ., ch. ch. xiii. the original price for the remaining six. Meeting with a second refusal, she proceeded to burn three more, and asked the full price for the remaining three. Awed by her extraordinary conduct, the king at last purchased the three for the sum originally asked for the nine. [SIBYL.] (b) The nurse of Jupiter. 2. An asteroid, the 113th found. It was discovered by Luther, on the 12th of March, 1871 . II. As a botanical term: Bot. Desvaux's name for the species of fruit called Eterio , when it has no elevated receptacle. [ETÆRIO.]