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gregarious, a.|grɪˈgɛərɪəs|
[f. L. gregāri-us (f. greg-, grex flock, herd) + -ous.]
1. Nat. Hist. Of classes or species of animals: Living in flocks or communities, given to association with others of the same species.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 135 Being gregarious, swimming together in great multitudes. 1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. ii. 196 Stares are gregarious birds, living and flying together in great flocks. 1701Grew Cosm. Sacra iii. ii. §38. 99 Those which are the most useful, fly not singly, as other Birds, but are commonly Gregarious; as the Partridge, Lark, Teal. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. II. 41 This is practised among all gregarious animals. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 68 Philonexis.—Gregarious in the open sea. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 340 A gregarious species of butterfly.
b. transf. Of persons: Inclined to associate with others, fond of company.
1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 369 Society! gregarious dame! 1822Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 2/1 A very gregarious profession, that habitually combines and butts against an opponent with a very extended front. 1853C. L. Brace Home Life Germ. 188 We like being together well enough, but our gregarious tendencies are nearly always for some earnest object. 1896Mrs. Caffyn Quaker Grandmother 70 She's not a gregarious person. Society and she have choked each other off some time ago.
2. Bot. Growing in open clusters.
1829Loudon Encycl. Plants 995 Agaricus fusipes..gregarious. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 131 Saxifraga granulata..Gregarious, glandular-hairy.
3. Path. Closely collected, clustered.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 256 Occasionally, however, this species [intestinal calculus] is found gregarious, instead of solitary. Ibid. IV. 440 They [pimples] are sometimes solitary, but more frequently gregarious.
4. Of or pertaining to a flock or community; characteristic of or affecting persons gathered together in crowds.
1833I. Taylor Fanat. iii. 60 The enthusiasm of gregarious rage..puts contempt upon death. 1855Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 401 An instance of the gregarious effect of an excitement. 1876Lowell Among my Books ii. 210 His faith in the gregarious advancement of men was afterwards shaken. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. xiii. 236 Mere religious zeal is a gregarious thing..like other gregarious affections, which are caught by men in company.
Hence greˈgariously adv., greˈgariousness.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 374/1 Gregariously, such as swim by Flocks, Troops, or Companies together. 1818Todd, Gregariously, Gregariousness. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales I. 177 It is evident that they prey gregariously. 1840De Quincey Style Wks. 1859 XI. 233 That marked gregariousness in human genius had taken place amongst the poets and orators of Rome, which [etc.]. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 151 Men acting gregariously. 1874Helps Soc. Press. xii. 154 A vile gregariousness of thought and feeling. |
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