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Definition of Ingathering

1. Noun. Request for a sum of money. "An appeal to raise money for starving children"

Definition of Ingathering

1. n. The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest.

Definition of Ingathering

1. Verb. (present participle of ingather) ¹

2. Noun. The gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ingathering

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Ingathering

1. The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest. "Thou shalt keep . . . The feast of ingathering." (Ex. Xxii. 16) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingathering

Literary usage of Ingathering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, William Nemos, Frances Fuller Victor (1888)
"ingathering or NATIONALITIES—PECULIARITIES OP DRESS AND MANNERS— PHYSICAL AND MORAL FEATURES—LEVELLING or RANK AND POSITION— Is THE MINES—CHOLERA—HARDSHIPS ..."

2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"... feast of ingathering —in Southern India, after the new rice has been prepared, and placed over the fire, and after the joyful shout has gone forth, ..."

3. The Wisdom of the Apocalypse by Joshua Hall McIlvaine (1886)
"XXXV THE HARVEST AND VINTAGE OF THE EARTH ingathering OF THE RIGHTEOUS TO THEIR REWARD AND OF THE WICKED TO THEIR PUNISHMENT XIV I4~2O This vision, ..."

4. The Sunday School and Its Methods: A Practical Treatise for Earnest Workers by James A. Lyons (1883)
"ingathering. HOWEVER well a Church may have ... laboring together with God " for the ingathering of those " which are without," myriads of whom are as lambs ..."

5. The Vanguard: A Tale of Korea by James Scarth Gale (1904)
"... XXXIV ingathering THE church was guarded from dangers temporal and spiritual, the list of its members was running up far into the thousands. ..."

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