greg-, -gregate, -gregation

1. Collected together from different sources and considered as a whole.
2. Describes a mixture of minerals or rock fragments that resembles rock.
3. A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount.

1. Several things grouped together or considered as a whole.
2. The act of gathering something together.
3. A group or mass of distinct or varied things, people, etc.
4. In biology, a group of organisms of the same, or different species, living closely together but less integrated than a society.

1. To come together in a group, or to gather people or animals into a group, crowd, or assembly.
2. To collect or to separate people or things into an assemblage; to assemble.
3. To bring into one place, or into a crowd or united body; such as, to congregate humans or animals.

1. Collecting into an assembly, or assemblage.
2. Assembling or bringing into one place, or into a united body.

Flocking together; as, in a church.

1. Relating to, or referring to, a congregation.
2. Pertaining to, or adhering to, a form of Protestant church government in which each local church acts as an independent, self-governing body; while maintaining fellowship with related congregations.

1. A system of church organization in which each church is self-governing.
2. The system of government and religious beliefs of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing.
3. The beliefs and practices of the Congregational Church.

1. A member of the Congregational Church.
2. Referring to, or pertaining to, or characteristic of a Congregational church.

1. Pertaining to a congregation; such as, congregational singing.
2. Pertaining to, or adhering to, a form of Protestant church government in which each local church acts as an independent, self-governing body, while maintaining fellowship with similar congregations.

Someone who brings a group, crowd, or assembly together.

1. To put an end to a customary, or enforced, separation of ethnic or racial groups in a place or institution; for example, in a workplace or a school.
2. To open, a school or workplace, for example; to members of all races or ethnic groups; especially, by force of law.
3. To end segregation between races, or sexes, in an organization.

1. The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.
2. The elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which different races, groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or similar groups and places.

Someone who advocates, or enforces, the opening of places and organizations to members of all races, genders, and ethnic groups, etc.

1. Conspicuously and outrageously bad, offensive, or reprehensible.
2. Extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: "He made an egregious mistake with the truth and so was recognized as an egregious liar."
3. Archaic: distinguished or eminent.
4. Etymology: from Latin egregius, from the phrase ex grege, "rising above the flock", from ex-, "out of" plus grege, ablative of grex, "herd, flock".

The sense of "disapproving", which is now predominant came about in the 16th century; but it originally referred to something ironic and is not from the Latin meaning, which etymologically simply meant "exceptional".