Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. --Wilson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
forgather — index meet, rendezvous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
forgather — forgather, foregather verb (I) formal to meet as a group … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
forgather — is the recommended spelling for this word meaning ‘to assemble, meet together’, rather than foregather, which is also found by association with the prefix fore (see for and fore ). It is a 16c Scottish loanword from Dutch vergaderen used in the… … Modern English usage
forgather — [fôr gath′ər] vi. [ FOR1 + GATHER, after Du vergaderen] 1. to come together; meet; assemble 2. to meet by chance; encounter 3. to associate or have friendly social relations (with) … English World dictionary
forgather — Wherever people foregather, one hears two kinds of talk (Simon, Paradigms Lost). Although foregather is not incorrect, the more usual spelling is forgather. A separate question is whether forgather adds anything that gather alone wouldn t say … Dictionary of troublesome word
forgather — or foregather intransitive verb Date: 1513 1. to come together ; assemble 2. to meet someone usually by chance … New Collegiate Dictionary
forgather — /fawr gadh euhr/, v.i. 1. to gather together; convene; assemble. 2. to encounter someone, esp. by chance. Also, foregather. [1505 15; FOR + GATHER] * * * … Universalium
forgather — verb To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate … Wiktionary
forgather — Synonyms and related words: assemble, bunch, bunch up, clot, cluster, collect, come together, congregate, congress, converge, copulate, couple, crowd, date, flock together, flow together, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, herd… … Moby Thesaurus
forgather — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. congregate, convene, assemble; see gather 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) also foregather verb To come together: assemble, cluster, collect1, congregate, convene, gather, get together, group, muster. See COLLECT … English dictionary for students
