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Definition of Amassed
1. amass [v] - See also: amass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amassed
| amaroid amaroidal amarone amarones amarum amaryllidaceous amaryllideous amaryllis amaryllis family amaryllises | amas amasake amasi amasthenic amastia amastigote amastigotes amasumo amate amated | amates |
Literary usage of Amassed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"amassed a large fortune and became proprietor of several important estates.
The eldest son was Sir James Maxwell Wallace [see WALLACE, GRACE, LADY WALLACE]. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... never receiving nor admitting any comfort after the lose of a eon for whom he
had amassed an infinite heap of riches, and in whom he expected all the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He had attained numerous dignities and amassed wealth, but dishonoured the Church.
FORGEOT, Jean ¡Salue (Paris, 1895); PASTOR, ..."
4. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... Where one small orange cup amassed Five beetles—blind and green they grope I
traced it. Hold it fast ! Among the honey-meal : and last. ..."
5. Six Months in America by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1833)
"amassed large fortunes: the consumer, whether royalist or republican, having been
by no means averse to render assistance whore it was obviously for his own ..."
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