I.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.