| congeries |
| Definition: A disorderly collection is a congeries. The plural of the word congeries is congeries. |
| Etymology: The word derives from the Latin congerere, to heap up. |
| Oxford English Dictionary: Its first citation is from 1619: "Yet is hee a congeries … a masse of many unlike and repugnant affections." (M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. x. §3 (1622) 303) |