1644 S. Rutherford Lex, Rex ii. 2 As domestic societie is by natures instinct, so is civill societie naturall, in radice, in the root, and voluntary, in modo, in the manner of coalescing.

1701 R. Fleming Disc. Several Subjects II. 52 I must now consider what is the Substratum or Foundation of this Converse between these Partys, or what it is in them that lays a Foundation for such a Coalescing and Agreement.

1810 H. P. Forster Ess. Princ. Sanskrit Gram. I. ii. 15 General Rules for the coalescing and Mutation of the final and initial Vowels of distinct Words.

1864 C. M. Yonge Trial I. 152 Silenced by a coalescing of the party at a gate.

1972 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 62 67 A coalescing of the pits into grooves.

1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 28 Nov. e1/4 The coalescing of cultures has been constant along the missile-field frontiers of the country's heartland.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. xiii. 371 As for the other intermediate Vowels being preposed before one another, they will not afford any coalescing sounds that are easily distinguishable.

1783 5th Duke of Leeds Polit. Mem. (1884) 85 A want of union among the coalescing parties.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 246 The direction in which the apposition on the coalescing bundle takes place.

1949 Lancet 28 May 903/2 Air injected into the lungs from a syringe, without much force, raises coalescing air pockets under the visceral pleura.

2002 New Scientist 9 Nov. (Inside Sci. Suppl. 155) 3/1 The tissues sustain more and more damage from huge numbers of coalescing tubercles.