Amass

Definitions

1. A large number of things collected or piled together.
   obsolete
2. The act of amassing.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]his Pillar [the "Compounded Order⟳"] is nothing in effect, but a Medlie, or an Amaſſe of all the precedent Ornaments, making a nevv kinde, by ſtealth, and though the moſt richly tricked, yet the pooreſt in this, that he is a borrovver of all his Beautie.”

“[…] others are drawn, not as portraits, not strict copies of these most essential characteristic parts, but filled up afterwards from memory, and a general idea of an amass of arms, without the specific one of a trophæal amass, which is the fact of these bas-relieves.”

“He [the general] must neuer permit⟳ the Captaines to depart from the place⟳, where he made the Amasse and collection of the Companies, with their bands out of order⟳ or disseuered, although they should depart to some place⟳ neere adioyning, vnlesse he were forced by some occasion of great necessity and importance:”

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