concertedadj.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 281 The insinuating harmony of a well-concerted period, in its Isocoletick and parisonal members.

1659 R. W. tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Aristippus 12 A concerted Reasoning [Fr. le raisonnement concerté] despoils us not at all of the first apprehension we have of the truth of things.

1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 6 By concerted Falshoods.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. vi. 151 These People have certain concerted Terms..upon repeating which he [sc. the Devil] is to appear.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Set, a dead set, a concerted scheme to defraud a person by gaming.

1834 Brit. Mag. July 109/1 A concerted opposition on the part of the Dissenters.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. x. 276 A concerted signal was then made.

1939 Fortune Nov. 59/3 The German admires the soldierly type, the concerted thud of boots on stone.

1948 C. E. Dankert Contemp. Unionism in U.S. xxii. 387 Strikes are concerted and temporary cessations from work by workers who have grievances to be settled.

1968 J. E. Powell & K. Wallis House of Lords in Middle Ages viii. 123 King John planned a concerted attack on the French heartland from east and west.

1999 Brit. Telecommunications plc Ann. Rep. 20/2 A general prohibition on..agreements or concerted practices which may prevent, restrict or distort competition.

1673 R. Honywood tr. B. Nani Hist. Republick of Venice xii. 546 The consults and minds of the Confederates were very wavering; that which opposed the sending the concerted Troops [It. le militie concertate] into Tuscany and making further attempts, being the disturbance which rose from the Duke of Parma.

1793 B. Vaughan Lett. on Concert of Princes 24 It is..of no importance to be able to apportion, with accuracy, these several objects among the concerted powers; as there is field enough for all.

1897 Marquis of Salisbury in Times 16 Feb. 8/1 The concerted sympathy of the Powers remains complete.

1897 Daily News 25 May 8/1 Europe unfortunately, concerted or otherwise, is pretty well case-hardened to suffering.

1948 M. Irwin Elizabeth, Captive Princess iii. 25 The attempts to organize all Europe into a concerted front against the invading onrush of the heathen Turk.

2009 A. Dimou Entangled Paths towards Modernity v. iv. 337 They acted as a concerted group.

1824 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe Musical Reminisc. vii. 120 The inferior singers never joined in any concerted piece.

1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 433 Concerted pieces need interspersing with solos.

1910 Times 3 Dec. 15/3 The concerted music includes..a ‘ricercata’ for string quartet and continuo.

2000 R. Wistreich in J. Potter Cambr. Compan. Singing xv. 183 The increasing size of the mixed vocal and instrumental ensembles required to perform concerted music for the courtly opera and the chamber cantatas of the Baroque period.

1844 Mobile (Alabama) Daily Advertiser 23 July We have but to make a vigorous and concerted effort throughout the State to effect a complete overthrow of Locofocoism in Alabama.

1891 Anglo-Amer. Times 9 Oct. 16/2 He says that Germany should make a concerted effort to have an exhibit that would photograph the magnitude of its manufacturing industries.

1938 Extension Service Rev. June 90/1 When Horace Abbott..was chairman of this committee he made a concerted effort to get some graduate schools to work out a plan for study in absentia.

1951 N.Y. Times 9 July 30/7 It is the first time Florida has made a concerted effort to establish a super-brand in competition with Sunkist of California.

2008 J. O. Prochaska & J. M. Prochaska in W. T. O'Donohue & M. A. Cucciare Terminating Psychotherapy (2010) vii. 153 We prepare people for a six-month concerted effort where they need to be prepared to work hard to keep from relapsing.

1694 tr. E. Benoist Hist. Famous Edict of Nantes I. iv. 224 The union of many Men, who aim at different ends, may break of it self, tho' they often have the same Motives for acting concertedly.

1778 Public Advertiser 15 Oct. The Plan was to be re-transmitted to the Court of Versailles, and to be concertedly executed by France and America.

1889 Courier (Middlesex) 9 Feb. 5/1 The young pupils concertedly sang a couple of songs, which were very well rendered.

1970 Jrnl. Compar. & Physiol. Psychol. 73 291/2 These two effects would act concertedly.

1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 311 Effusive enough when introduced to Lucy in the hall, Gwyn was now concertedly loving her up—on a sofa beneath the mullioned window.

2012 Sight & Sound Apr. 88/4 Straubs' daring visual choices..which are concertedly focused on what isn't shown more than what is.