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单词 congeal
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congealv.

Brit. /kənˈdʒiːl/, U.S. /kənˈdʒil/
Forms: Middle English–1600s congele, Middle English congell-yn, Middle English–1600s congieale, 1500s congeel, congiele, congieyle, 1500s– congeal.
Etymology: Middle English congele(n, < Old French congeler (14th cent. in Littré) 3rd singular present congèle, < Latin congelāre, < con- together + gelāre to freeze, < gelum, gelu frost.
I. transitive.
1.
a. To convert, by freezing, from a fluid or soft to a solid and rigid state, as water into ice; to freeze.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > freeze
congeal1393
engeal14..
freezea1513
glaciate1656
anneala1763
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 96 So as the fire it hath aneled, Lich unto slime, which is congeled.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xi. i. 381 Whan ayre is congelyd it makyth snowe and hayle.
c1490 Promptorium Parvulorum 90 (MS. K.) Congellyn, congelo.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 325 Wine also and other moist thynges are so conieled that they may bee cutte with knyues.
1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 231 Enforced there to ende his lyfe for colde, congealed and frosen to death.
1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck Proem i. 3 Where arctic storms congeal eternal snow.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. v. 103 The ground at the depth of a few feet remains perpetually congealed.
1853 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 9) vi. 80 The carcass of a rhinoceros..taken from the sand in which it must have remained congealed for ages.
b. To solidify by cooling (not frost).
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > make dense or solid [verb (transitive)] > by cold
congeal1682
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool > solidify by cooling
congeal1682
1682 N. Grew Of Mixture i. v. §3 in Anat. Plants 233 The Oyl..at last, is congealed, or hardned into a white Fat or Butter.
1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) 41 Congele, is to let some matter that is melted fix, or grow into a consistence.
2.
a. To solidify as by freezing, to make crystalline or solid from a fluid state. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > make dense or solid [verb (transitive)]
congealc1384
sadc1384
resolvea1398
thightc1440
condense1477
constipate1546
condensate1555
engross1561
indense1576
sadden1600
settle1611
densate1613
solidate1640
corporify1644
conspissate1647
consolidate1653
conglaciate1660
solidify1799
densify1820
c1384 [implied in: G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 36 This roche..was lyk a thing of glas..But of what congeled matere Hit was, I niste redely. (at congealed adj. 2)].
c1400 Test. Love (1560) ii. 291/1 This precious Margarite..discended..from his heauenliche dewe, nourished and congeled in meeknesse.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. viii. f. 39 The water is congeled into moste pure and whyte salte.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 71 The cause why stones melte not as metalles doe..because they are congeled past that degree.
1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber i. iii. 6 Filter the Solution, which congeal by gentle Fire.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 160 Salt that was congeal'd by the Sun.
b. To concrete or cement (grains) together.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > give consistency to [verb (transitive)] > cause to cohere
binda1000
cleama1340
coagulec1400
congeal1563
coagulate1610
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 63v Sand..consisting of many small bodies, which are congeled into stones.
c. To condense (vapour) into liquid. Obsolete.
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1661 [implied in: R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. D5 Least the congealed vapour drop thence. (at congealed adj. 2)].
3. To make (a liquid) viscid or jelly-like; to stiffen, curdle, clot, coagulate (esp. the blood; often in figurative sense: cf. curdle v. 1b).
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > give consistency to [verb (transitive)] > coagulate
thickc1000
runlOE
quaila1398
congealc1400
curd?a1425
thickenc1425
coagulec1550
clumper1562
curdle1585
clutter1601
quarl1607
coagulate1611
posseta1616
sam1615
concrete1635
earn1670
clotter1700
cotter1781
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. (MS. A.) 66 Þanne by grace sum greet drope of blood may be congelid togidere.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 89v A precious Conserue, and Marmelad, being congealed with long seething.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 128 Seeing too much sadnesse hath congeal'd your blood. View more context for this quotation
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 310 Cordials made of spirituous Liquors..add Strength to the Mill, but congeal the Stream.
1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline ii. iii Here no hungry winter congeals our blood like the rivers.
4. figurative.
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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Instit. (1578) iv. 97 Men can be congeled together into no name of religion either true or false, vnlesse, etc.
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi.119 A heart congealed and hardned in sinne.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 118. ⁋10 Curiosity..may be dissipated in trifles or congealed by indolence.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 18 When the people have sufficiently shuddered at that, they are next congealed with a frightful account, [etc.].
1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism I. iv. 390 It was not till about the third century that the moral sentiments..were congealed into an elaborate theology.
II. intransitive.
5. To become solid and rigid by freezing; to freeze; to become solid by cooling.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > become (more) dense or solid [verb (intransitive)] > by cold
congealc1400
storken1570
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > become cold > freeze
it freezes971
congealc1400
gealc1440
frigitate1635
conglaciate1646
take1781
catch1879
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xvii. 79 For þe grete calde and continuele frost þe water congelez in to cristall.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiv. xxi Wine of it owne nature will not congeale and freeze.
a1626 F. Bacon Physiol. & Med. Rem. in Wks. III. 803 In the midst of molten lead, when it beginneth to congeal, make a little dent.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory iii. 649 When cooled down to −25°, ether congeals in brilliant transparent plates.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. ii. vi. 157 [The temperature] at which quicksilver congeals.
6.
a. gen. To become solid by a process resembling freezing; †to crystallize, petrify, etc.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > become (more) dense or solid [verb (intransitive)]
thicka1000
starkOE
congealc1400
starken?a1513
concrease1578
thicken1598
knit1605
condensate1607
fix1626
saddena1642
concretea1676
incrassate1733
solidify1837
consolidate1885
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) v. 15 Þe water of þe whilk [laake] ilk a ȝere..congelez in to gude salt.
1568 Bible (Bishops') Exod. xv. 8 The fluddes stoode still as an heape, and the deepe water congealed togeather.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. vi. 93 The Water of it's owne accord congeales into salt.
17.. Berkeley Descr. Cave of Dunmore in Wks. IV. 504 From each of 'em there distils a drop of clear water, which, congealing at the bottom, forms a round, hard, and white stone.
b. To coalesce in a concrete mass. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > be thick enough to retain form [verb (intransitive)] > cohere
clingOE
clitchc1400
clutchc1425
coagmentate1578
congeal1584
clung1601
cohere1616
conglutinatea1625
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health clxxix. 144 Their slymynesse will cause the grauell sooner to congeale, and gather to a stone.
7. To stiffen into a viscid jelly-like consistency; to coagulate, clot, or curdle, as milk or blood.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > be thick enough to retain form [verb (intransitive)] > coagulate
runeOE
curda1382
congealc1400
clotterc1405
clodder1499
cludder1540
yearna1568
quar1578
curdle1586
clot1591
coagulate1600
clod1639
concoagulate1666
earn1670
set1736
keech1863
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xiv. 152 It [Manna] cometh of the dew of heuene, þat falleth vpon the herbes..And it congeleth [Roxb. coagules] & becometh all white & swete.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Nijv The blode that can not congele.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxii. 34 The juyce..causeth the same milke to congeale and crudde.
c1590 C. Marlowe Faustus v, in Wks. (1910) 86/1 My blood congeals and I can write no more.
8. figurative.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 480 Least zeale now melted..Coole and congeale againe to what it was. View more context for this quotation
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 210 Now all is over! passion is congealing.
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 182 Their trees always had a tendency to congeal into little acicular thorn-hedges, and never tossed free.
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