Literary notes about Assemble (AI summary)
Throughout literature, "assemble" is employed to evoke the deliberate gathering of people, ideas, or even divine entities. Its usage ranges from clandestine meetings in hidden places, as when persecuted Christians congregate beneath the earth ([1]), to grand civic and religious councils where citizens or deities come together to deliberate or worship ([2], [3], [4]). The word also captures scenes of militaristic mobilization on open fields ([5], [6]), as well as more intimate settings where families or communities unite for daily activities or festive occasions ([7], [8]). Moreover, authors use it metaphorically to describe the act of piecing together plans or thoughts ([9]), thereby imbuing the term with both physical and abstract qualities.
- For it is deep, deep under the earth that the persecuted are permitted to assemble, as the Christians assembled in the Catacombs.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton - Once a year, on the day after the new-moon in the month Māsi (February to March), the Valaiyans assemble to worship the deity.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston - Assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear: who among them hath declared these things?
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - And proclamation was made in Juda and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should assemble together into Jerusalem. 10:8.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - 77 The united armies were commanded to assemble in a large plain near the city.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The day following, the Fabii take up arms; they assemble where they had been ordered.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy - When the opera was over, we went into a place called the coffee-room where ladies, as well as gentlemen, assemble.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney - There is a hillock facing my window on which the children of the place assemble for their games.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - He dressed hurriedly, without the time to think and assemble the various plans he had worked out during the week.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka
