recongealv.
/ˌriːkənˈdʒiːl/, U.S. /ˌrikənˈdʒil/ transitive and intransitive. To freeze or congeal again.
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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 > again
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1665 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold 40 You suffer the oyl to re-congeal leisurely of it self.
1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. i. xvii. 176 It is but a folly for me now to mince the matter, or by my coldness endeavour to recongeal that water where the ice, is too too visibly broken and thaw'd.
c1670 Ripley's Epist. K. Edward Unfolded (King's Cambr. Keynes 52) f. 5v Decoct them in a due heat..untill the compound bee first dissolved, & yn recongealed, first putrefyed, & then regenerated.
1705 C. Mystagogus Trifertes Sagani 31 No Menstruum is profitable in the Philosophic Work, but that which dissolves the Body in a Generative way, and then recongeals upon the Body dissolved.
1788 A. Crawford Exper. & Observ. Animal Heat (ed. 2) 71 When the same bodies are re-congealed by exposure to cold, they part with the heat which in the process of melting they had formerly absorbed.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xx. 138 They shone..as if their surfaces had been melted and recongealed to frosted mirrors.
1938 Philos. Sci. 5 378 Matter may be transmuted into energy and re-congealed into matter.
1989 Foreign Policy 77 39 The EC's political unification could recongeal Europe's division rather than operate as a vehicle to overcome it.
1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) viii. 215 The sea curdled where the prow cut through it, then recongealed in the sambuq 's wake.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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