ag-glūtĭno (adg-), āvi, ātum, 1, v.a., to glue, paste, solder, or cement to a thing, to fit closely to, to fasten to.
- I. Lit.: tu illud (prooemium) desecabis, hoc adglutinabis, you may remove that introduction, and add this instead of it, * Cic. Att. 16, 6: aliquid fronti, Cels. 6, 6, n. 1; so id. 7, 26, n. 4; Vitr. 10, 13, 245: adglutinando auro, Plin. 33, 5, 29, § 93: Fragmenta teporata adglutinantur, id. 36, 26, 67, § 199: adglutinabo pisces fiuminum tuorum squamis tuis, Vulg. Ezech. 29, 4.
- II. Fig.: ita mihi ad malum malae res plurimae se adglutinant, Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 71; id. Men. 2, 2, 67: adglutinavi mihi omnem domum Israël, Vulg. Jer. 13, 11.