To glue or ioyne togither: to close. Conglutinare & Dissoluere, contraria. Cic. Vulnus congiutinant folia vitram. Plin. Vine leauts close vp woundes. Rem disiolutam diuulsamque conglutmare. Cic. Conglutinantur consuetudine voluntates. Cic. Good willes of men are ioyned by familiarilie. Conglutinare amicit: as test monijs. Cicer. To knit or ioyne friendship. Conglutinata concordia Cic. Meietricios amores nuptijs cõglutinare. Ter. To marry one to an harlot that he is in loue with. Ex libidine, crudelitate, petulãtia cõglutinatus. Cic. Cõpact.

I. Lit. (t. t.): favos extremos inter se, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 23; cf.: utrasque res inter se (calx), Vitr. 7, 4, 3: libros, Dig. 32, 52, 5: carnis, Plin. 27, 6, 24, 42: volnera recentia, id. 30, 13, 39, 115: germinantis oculos aliquā sibi annexione, Pall. Mart. 10, 36.—

II. Trop.

A. To join, unite firmly together, to bind closely, cement (a favorite trope of Cic.; elsewhere very rare): hominem eadem, optime quae conglutinavit, natura dissolvit, Cic. Sen. 20, 73; cf.: rem dissolutam, divulsamque (sc. in oratione), id. de Or. 1, 42, 188: animi vitium cum causā peccati, Auct. Her. 2, 3, 5: amicitias, Cic. Lael. 9, 32 (opp. dissolvere); id. Att. 7, 8, 1: concordiam, id. ib. 1, 17, 10: voluntates nostras consuetudine, id. Fam. 11, 27, 2; cf.: meretricios amores nuptiis, Ter. And. 5, 4, 10: quid est in Antonio praeter libidinem, crudelitatem, petulantiam, audaciam? Ex his totus conglutinatus est, composed, Cic. Phil. 3, 11, 28: affixus et conglutinatus, i. e. adhering closely to a person, App. M. 9, p. 225, 4.—

B. Like compono, comparo, etc., to invent, devise, contrive (a means): conglutina, Ut senem hodie doctum docte fallas, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 42.