concomitantadj.n.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 28 From the naturall concomitant qualitie of heate, with expiration, respiration, & inspiration.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. iv. 103 Either concomitant, assisting, or sole causes..of melancholy.

1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 166 That which was secret, yet was concomitant of that which was publike.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 104. ⁋1 So certainly is Decency concomitant to Virtue.

1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 373 The concomitant lime~stone also contains marine petrifactions.

1856 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. 449 The law..admits of corroboration by the Method of Concomitant Variations.

1864 F. C. Bowen Logic (1870) x. 333 Every event has..a crowd of concomitant circumstances.

1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms Concomitant, used of vascular bundles which run side by side without being separated by other bundles.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. L3 Virgill did excellently..couple the knowledge of causes, and the Conquest of all feares, together as Concomitantia . View more context for this quotation]

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. v. 414 Death is not so terrible in it selfe, as the concomitants of it.

1682 J. Norris tr. Hierocles Golden Verses 14 This reverence of an Oath is..the constant attendant and concomitant of Piety.

1709 M. Prior Paulo Purganti And for Tobacco (who could bear it?) Filthy Concomitant of Claret.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 79. ⁋7 Suspicion is justly appointed the concomitant of guilt.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. i. 4 Wealth with its usual concomitants, elegance and comfort.

a1639 H. Wotton View Life & Death Duke of Buckingham in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 81 [He] made him the chief concomitant of his heir apparant.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xix. 40 You are thus my concomitant through new places.

1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 242 His Concomitants and Assistants in the Operations.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. xlv. 305 We find this person often introduced as a concomitant of Psuche.

1853 Sylvester in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 143 i. 543 Concomitant. Nomen generalissimum for a form invariantively connected with a given form or system of forms.

1859 G. Salmon Lessons Mod. Higher Algebra (1866) 104 Dr. Sylvester uses the name concomitant as a general word to include all functions whose relations to the quantic are unaltered by linear transformation, and he calls the functions now under consideration mixed concomitants.