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coalesce, v.|kəʊəˈlɛs|
Also 6 coalesse.
[ad. L. coalescĕre to grow together, f. co- = com- + alescĕre to grow up.]
†1. trans. To cause to grow together, to unite, combine. Obs.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terapeutyke 2 H iv, To do all yt is conuenable to coalesse and close an vlcere togyther. 1790Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 141/1 This coalesced the apparent bulk of the nation..in one common interest.
2. intr. To grow together or into one body.
1656Blount Glossogr., Coalesce, to grow together. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. v. §10 To preserve the Sides of the Capillary Vessels from coalescing and growing together. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 566 The number of the carpels which have coalesced to form the ovary.
†b. To grow together into lumps, to cake. Obs.
1762tr. Duhamel's Husb. i. viii. (ed. 2) 22 For earth, alone, we find, is liable to coalesce. 1787Winter Syst. Husb. 211 When stiff land is not hoed, it will soon coalesce.
3. To unite or come together, so as to form one.
a. of things material.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 371 When two Vowels are put together by way of Dipthong, so as to coalesce in one Syllable. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 346 If the water surrounding one particle of air comes in contact with the water surrounding another, they coalesce, and form a drop, and we have rain. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos II. xxxv. 363 From Blois on one side, and Orleans on the other, there coalesced no less than five thousand cavalry. 1860Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) III. 319 The granules coalesce into larger masses. 1862Dana Man. Geol. 621 The barrier reefs coalesce with the fringing reefs.
b. of things immaterial; or of non-material union.
a1679Goodwin Wks. III. iii. 345 (R.) It was requisite that..both of them should coalesce into one person, but without confounding them together. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. viii. (1851) 190 Many ages ago, the Conquerors and Conquered coalesced into one and the same People. 1762J. Brown Poetry & Mus. §5 (1763) 92 The Characters of Legislator and Bard did often and naturally coalesce. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. i. §6 (1875) 23 To find the truth in which Religion and Science coalesce.
4. Of persons or parties: To unite into one body or association.
1781Bentham Wks. (1838–43) X. 102 A disposition among his friends to coalesce. 1787‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsem. (1809) 49 Nor do I much despair of finding many judges (of riding I mean) coalesce in sentiment with me. 1834Macaulay Ess. Pitt (1854) I. 306 Who had bound himself, by a solemn promise, never to coalesce with Pitt. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xxiv. 345 She and her nurse coalesced in wondrous union. 1876J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. I. i. i. 19 Only a portion of their tribes coalesced to repel his invasion.
Hence coaˈlescing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1783Dk. Leeds Polit. Mem. (1884) 85 A want of union among the coalescing parties. 1864C. M. Yonge Trial I. 152 Silenced by a coalescing of the party at a gate. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 246 The direction in which the apposition on the coalescing bundle takes place. |