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concretion|kənˈkriːʃən|
[a. F. concrétion (16th c. in Littré). or ad. (its prototype) L. concrētiōn-em, n. of action f. concrēscĕre to grow together: see concrete.]
1. The action or process of growing together or of uniting in one mass; concrescence, coalescence.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 672 An egge hath the generation and concretion within the bodie onely of a living creature. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. ii. §14 The concretion of bodyes by the concourse of these Atoms. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iii. vii. 288 Upon great Mutations of the World perfect Creatures were first ingendred of Concretion. 1802Playfair Illustr. Hutton. Th. 246 These two substances were perfectly soft..at the moment of their concretion. 1829Jas. Mill Anal. Hum. Mind (1869) I. 264 Have we not the idea of a wood, or a forest?.. These are instances of the concretion of synchronous ideas. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 130 A cohesion, of the styles, by which their tendency to concretion may be recognised.
†b. Formation of morbid concretions (see sense 6) in an animal body. Obs.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. [They] do crud & make concrecyon in y⊇ partyes of the bulke or oesophage. 1761Brit. Mag. II. 537 Such obstinate concretion and obstruction..as bring on gout.
2. Congelation or coagulation of a liquid.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 269 Concretion is divaporation of humidity in fluid things, by gentle decoction on fire. 1656Blount Glossogr., Concretion, a congealment. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 275 Fluids capable of concretion. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 419/1 The blood's speedy concretion in debility.
†3. Union or connexion with something material or actual. Obs.
1605Timme Quersit. i. xvii. 93 It is..freed from all mortal concretion. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. xv. §18 If we consider good life in union and concretion with particular..actions of piety. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. viii. (1821) 261 The soul..because of her concretion with this mortal body. 1741Middleton Cicero II. xi. 613 Clear from all mortal concretion.
†4. State or degree of concrescence. Obs.
1606Bp. J. King Serm. (Sept.) 14 Of a strange composition and concretion. 1635Swan Spec. M. v. §2 (1643) 123 Other starres might also attain to the like luminous concretion. 1794J. Hutton Philos. Light, etc. 31 Diminished in its hardness and concretion.
5. quasi-concr. A concrete mass of (anything).
1626Bacon Sylva (1631) §568 Some plants..being supposed to grow of some Concretion of Slime from the Water. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece ii. xx. (1715) 373 Salt is a Concretion of Sea Water. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 651 A concretion of marine shells. 1886H. B. Wheatley in Antiquary Feb. 58/2 The pearl is a mere concretion of the carbonate of lime forming the shell.
fig.1634Jackson Creed vii. Wks. VI. 223 That concretion of ceremonial matters. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. x. 235 The whole concretion of the City of Gloucester consists partly of..the ancient Borough, partly of accessions.
6. concr. A solid mass formed by aggregation and cohesion of particles; a lump, nodule, clot: esp.
a. Path. a hard morbid formation in the body, a calculus, stone;
b. Geol. a mass formed by aggregation of solid particles, usually around a nucleus; characteristic of certain rocks (cf. concretionary).
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 137 Conceiving the stones..to be a Minerall concretion. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. iii. 61 Stones..to which earthy concretions may be annexed by way of affinity. 1702J. Purcell Cholick (1714) 33 He cut a stony Concretion out of the Liver. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. i. xi. (1865) 86 Such poor concretions as mankind. 1833Brewster Nat. Magic xxxiv. 285 Tabasheer..is a silicious concretion found in the joints of the bamboo. 1865Page Handbk. Geol. Terms s.v., Nodules like those of chert and ironstone..and the grape-like clusters of the magnesian limestone, are termed ‘concretions’, as formed by a molecular aggregation distinct from crystallisation.
7. The action of making, or condition of being, concrete (see concrete a. 5). ? Obs. † in concretion: in the concrete (see concrete a. 5).
1642Jer. Taylor Episc. (1647) 152 In such distinction and subordination & in concretion a Presbyter is sometimes called Sacerdos. 1751Harris Hermes iii. i. (1786) 306 But the Mind surmounts all power of Concretion.
b. The result of such action; embodiment in a concrete form; a concrete thing.
1841Miall Nonconf. I. 401 If our national institutions are but so many concretions of the national will. 1856Ferrier Inst. Metaph. 195 All knowledge and all thought are concrete, and deal only with concretions—the concretion of the particular and the universal. |