coalescencen.
/ˌkəʊəˈlɛsns/, U.S. /ˌkoʊəˈlɛs(ə)ns/ 1. Biology. The growing together of separate parts of a plant, animal, cell, etc. Also: an instance of this.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [noun] > union, junction, or attachment
coalescence?1541
insertion1578
coalition1605
suture1677
conjugation1843
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Ciij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens To do away that whiche letteth the coition and coalescence [Fr. coalescence].
1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ (ed. 2) 224 There immediately follows a Coalescence of all the Vessels.
1745 Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 211 The Ureter was greatly contracted, and there seem'd an absolute Coalescence of its Sides.
1867 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. II. iv. iii. 75 Those coalescences, variously carried on, by which many such cells are joined into threads, and discs, and solid or flattened-out masses.
1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ii. 23 The coalescence of distinct bones.
1921 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 8 400 In the Ulmaceae the receptacle is limited, then, to the pedicel of the flower, and in Ulmus, coalescence and adnation have taken place in the perianth parts and stamens.
1954 H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xxxiv. 640 Giant cells..might be due to the coalescence of monocytes or to the amitotic division of nuclei without cytoplasmic fission.
2001 J. Cullen Handbk. North European Garden Plants 437 Fruit a fleshy drupe formed from the coalescence of 2 ovaries, with up to 8 seeds.
2.
a. The union, merging, or combination of different persons, parties, principles, interests, etc., into one; = coalition n.1 2a. Also: an instance of this.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > action of
fasteningOE
confederationc1425
confedering1530
banding1593
bandying1599
coalescence1609
associating1644
concorporating1648
federation1652
confederating1687
fraternizing1793
colleaguing1817
leaguing1841
ganging1891
gang-up1936
gang-banging1966
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > group associated for common purpose
covinc1330
lyancec1380
university?1473
army1540
band1557
union1603
coalescence1609
confederation1621
associationa1658
confederacy1681
federation1791
brigade1806
united front1807
class movement1839
company1839
paction1877
combine1889
protest movement1898
protest group1920
minority movement1923
we1926
power1966
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Eagle & Body sig. B4v That mutual Coalescence between him [sc. Christ] and his Elect.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. (ed. 2) Notes 399/2 The coalescence of Jewish and Gentile Christians.
1681 Conformist's Plea for Nonconf. 52 I am troubled, that there are any such to be found..in this Church that oppose or hinder a Coalescence.
1716 Occas. Paper I. No. 6. 21 Thus every Obstacle being removed by Degrees, which would hinder a Coalescence between the English and French Churches.
1780 A. Bruce Free Thoughts on Toleration Popery 343 Between parties so distant, so alienated, and irreconcileably at variance, what coalescence can be expected, or what prospect can there be of any tolerable harmony?
1824 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 372 And yet I feel the conviction that I should be able to convince Mr Daniel that his Coalescence with the Grenville Penn Party and the Pressing of Moses & the Bible into the Service of Geological Theory is inconsistent with his own judicious Remark.
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. viii. 235 That thorough coalescence between two individuals which was only possible anciently when they belonged to the same family.
1919 E. Jenks State & Nation iii. xvii. 271 The gradual coalescence of petty rulerships into the Heptarchic Kingdoms.
1998 Mideast Mirror (Nexis) 9 Mar. Islamic Gihad was formed by the coalescence of three different Islamic groups.
b. Politics. = coalition n.1 2c. Now rare.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > forming of groups of parties or powers > a grouping of parties or powers
coalition1715
coalescence1764
rainbow coalition1932
1764 Let. Albemarle Street to Cocoa-Tree 24 Extinction of names will go a very short way to a coalescence of parties.
1788 Sir W. Young Let. 25 Nov. in Duke of Buckingham Mem. Court & Cabinets George III (1853) II. 17 It is thought that Fox's party..will propose a coalescence of some sort.
1843 D. Mallory Life & Speeches of Hon. Henry Clay I. 128 This event furnished the friends of Mr. Adams and general Jackson an opportunity to form a coälescence, which they eagerly embraced, and divided the five votes so as to give the former three and the latter two.
1995 Australian 11 Jan. (Brisbane ed.) 2/4 Mr Doug Anthony..called again for a merger, or ‘coalescence’, of the federal National and Liberal parties.
3. Union into one mass or body; amalgamation, fusion. Also: an instance of this.
a. Of material things.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > coalescence or fusion
concretion1603
coalition1605
confusion?1608
coagulation1622
coalescence1652
concrement1656
fusion1776
coalescent1784
solution1820
intergrowtha1859
symphytism1871
fusing1886
1652 W. Charleton Darknes Atheism ix. 307 All things, by coalescence composed of Atoms, cannot but conforme to the same motions, by which their principles are commoved.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxvi. 311 Either there would be no coalescence at all of Bodies, or they would all be gathered together into the same place.
1707 Philos. Trans. 1706–7 (Royal Soc.) 25 2425 The coagulation or coalescence of the Particles which compose them [sc. diamonds].
1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 283 The Water of the Cloud, as fast as it is produced by this coalescence and Condensation..must descend in Drops of Rain.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. viii. 614 Patræ was formed by a coalescence of seven villages.
1863 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Aug. 130 How is it that we constantly see..these walls permitting the union of the contents on either side, not through a minute specialized aperture, but in a similar manner to the coalescence of two soap-bubbles?
1931 H. S. Williams Bk. of Marvels 105 It was hoped that sand particles, charged with positive electricity, might serve to bring about the coalescence of vapor-particles of clouds.
2002 Times 11 Feb. ii. 10/1 The coalescence of two spinning black holes, for example, distorts the fabric of space-time so violently that it cannot always be governed by simple rules.
b. Of immaterial things.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > process of perception > fusion of sensations > [noun]
coalescence1771
fusion1892
syncretism1926
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 616 Were they Three Independent principles, there could not be any Coalescence of them into One.
1747 J. Robertson True Manner reading Hebrew iv. 103 This amicable Coalescence of the contiguous Extremities of neighbouring Words.
1771 J. Priestley in Theol. Repository III. 10 The power of habit, in promoting a perfect coalescence of associated ideas, is most remarkable in cases where the external senses are concerned.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvii. 614 The same coalescence of the religious with the patriotic feeling and faith.
1896 G. F. Stout Analyt. Psychol. I. 287 The gradual transformation undergone by a story as it passes from one person to another is in part at least to be accounted for by coalescence.
1933 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1931–2 32 They would point to the patent phenomena of adaptation or assimilation of the two sounds to one another..and also to the facts of elision, prodelision, and crasis (in the case of vowels), that is, of coalescence.
1995 M. Largey in P. Manuel et al. Caribbean Currents vi. 124 The coalescence of different African spiritual practices into a single worship service.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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