Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON'COURSE, n. [Fr. concours; Sp. concurso; It. concorso; L. concursus, from concurro, to run together; con and curro, to run.]

1. A moving, flowing or running together; confluence; as, a fortuitous concourse of atoms; a concourse of men.
2. A meeting; an assembly of men; an assemblage of things; a collection formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place. – Acts xix.
3. The place or point of meeting, or a meeting; the point of junction of two bodies. The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses. – Newton. [This application is unusual.]

CON-CRE-ATE', v.t. [con and create; It. concreare.]

To create with, or at the same time. Dr. Taylor … insists that it is inconsistent with the nature of virtue that it should be concreated with any person. – Edwards, Orig. Sin.

CON-CRE-AT'ED, pp.

Created at the same time, or in union with.

CON-CRED'IT, v.t.

To intrust. [Not used.] – Barrow.

CON-CRE-MA'TION, n. [L. concremo, to burn together; con and cremo, to burn.]

The act of burning different things together. [Little used.]

CON'CRE-MENT, n. [Low L. concrementum, from concresco, to grow together. See Concrete.]

A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. – Hale.

CON-CRES'CENCE, n. [L. concrescentia, concresco. See Concrete.]

Growth or increase; the act of growing or increasing by spontaneous union, or the coalescence of separate particles. – Ralegh.

CON-CRES'CI-BLE, a.

Capable of concreting; that may congeal or be changed from a liquid to a solid state. They formed a genuine, fixed, concrescible oil. – Fourcroy.

CON-CRETE, a.

In language, a concrete sound is a continuous one. – Rush.

CON'CRETE, a. [L. concretus, from concresco, to grow together; con and cresco, to grow. See Grow.]

1. Literally, united in growth. Hence, formed by coalition of separate particles in one body; consistent in a mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state or consistent surface of the chaos. – Burnet.
2. In logic, applied to a subject; not abstract; as, the whiteness of snow. Here whiteness is used as a concrete term, as it expresses the quality of snow. Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to a subject to which they belong. – Watts. A concrete number expresses or denotes a particular subject, as, three men; but when we use a number without reference to a subject, as three, or five, we use the term in the abstract. – Bailey.

CON'CRETE, n.

1. A compound; a mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body. Gold is a porous concrete. – Bentley.
2. In philosophy, a mass or compound body, made up of different ingredients; a mixed body or mass. Soap is a factitious concrete. – Encyc.
3. In logic, a concrete term; a term that includes both the quality and the subject in which it exists; as, nigrum, a black thing. – Ainsworth.

CON-CRETE', v.i.

To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body, chiefly by spontaneous cohesion, or other natural process; as, saline particles concrete into crystals; blood concretes in a bowl. Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard body. Applied to other substances, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate, coagulate; as in the concretion of blood. – Arbuthnot. Woodward. Newton.

CON-CRETE', v.t.

To form a mass by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles. – Hale.

CON-CRET'ED, pp.

United into a solid mass; congealed, inspissated, clotted.

CON-CRETE'LY, adv.

In a concrete manner; in a manner to include the subject with the predicate; not abstractly. – Norris.

CON-CRETE'NESS, n.

A state of being concrete; coagulation.

CON-CRET'ING, ppr.

Coalescing or congealing in a mass; becoming thick; making solid.

CON-CRE'TION, n.

1. The act of concreting; the process by which soft or fluid bodies become thick, consistent, solid, hard; the act of growing together, or of uniting, by other natural process, the small particles of matter into a mass.
2. The mass or solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation or induration; a clot; a lump; a solid substance formed in the soft parts or in the cavities of animal bodies.

CON-CRE'TION-AL, a.

Pertaining to concretion.

CON-CRE'TION-A-RY, a.

Formed by concretion. – Hitchcock.

CON-CRE'TIVE, a.

Causing to concrete; having power to produce concretion; tending to form a solid mass from separate particles; as, concretive juices. – Brown.

CON-CRE'TURE, n.

A mass formed by concretion. [Not used.]

CON-CREW', v.i.

To grow together. [Not used.] – Spenser.

CON-CRIM-IN-A'TION, n.

A joint accusation.

CON-CU'BI-NAGE, n. [Fr. See Concubine.]

The act or practice of cohabiting, as man and woman, in sexual commerce, without the authority of law or a legal marriage. In a more general sense, this word is used to express any criminal or prohibited sexual commerce, including adultery, incest, and fornication. In some countries, concubinage is marriage of an inferior kind, or performed with less solemnity than a true or formal marriage; or marriage with a woman of inferior condition, to whom the husband does not convey his rank or quality. This is said to be still in use in Germany. – Encyc. In law, concubinage is used as an exception against her that sueth for dower; in which it is alledged that she was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine. – Cowel.