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concentrated, ppl. a.
(see the vb.)
[f. concentrate v. + -ed1.]
1. Brought to or towards a common centre or focus; collected or massed as round a centre; brought together into smaller space or volume.
a1691Boyle Wks. III. 572 (R.) The concentrated beams of the sun made the aurum fulminans go off. 1840Napier Penins. War xiv. viii, The parcelling of an army before a concentrated enemy. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxiv. (1878) 425 After the concentrated duties of the Sunday.
fig.1788Gibbon Decl. & F. lii. (Seager), The flame of enthusiasm..burnt with concentrated heat in [their] breasts. 1886Morley Ht. Martineau Crit. M. III. 200 She was..full of vivid and concentrated interest in men and their doings.
b. Having the faculties collected and directed to one object.
1821Byron Juan iii. xlviii, Then calm, concentrated, and still, and slow, He lay coil'd like the boa in the wood.
2. Chem. Of liquids and solutions: Condensed by contraction of volume, with proportional increase of strength.
1689[see concentrate v. 3]. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 152 French leys were always used in a more concentrated form than our own. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Goethe Wks. (Bohn) I. 386 Hundreds of post-captains, with transit-telescope..and concentrated soup and pemmican. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Concentrated Milk, solidified milk prepared to keep without spoiling.
fig.1855G. Brimley Ess., Tennyson 22 To call it the concentrated essence of Byron's Gulnares, Zuleikas, et id genus omne. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xx. §34. 379 This kind of concentrated writing needs so much solution before the reader can fairly get the good of it.
3. Pathol. concentrated pulse [F. pouls concentré]: a small pulse. (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1882.)
Hence concentratedness, concentrated quality.
1887A. C. Benson Abp. Laud 200 He rather owed his strength to his concentratedness. |