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concentre, -center, v.|kənˈsɛntə(r)|
[a. F. concentre-r ‘to ioyne in one center’ Cotgr.; (It. concentrare, Sp. concentrar); L. type *concentrāre, f. con- together + centrum centre.]
I. trans.
1. To bring or draw to a common centre; to direct towards a centre; to bring together as at a centre.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 10 All dignities, all titles, shall be concentred in him [Christ]. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. 412 The love of God..concenters and unites all our thoughts and affections in one good. 1764Foote Patron ii. i, In you, Madam, are concenter'd all the beauties of the heathen mythology. 1862Lytton Str. Story I. 103 When ideas of perfection and purity..start forth and concentre themselves round one virgin shape.
b. To attract to itself as a centre; to form a centre or meeting-point for. rare.
1795Southey Joan of Arc iv. 439 His eager eye Concentring all the anguish of the soul. 1796Wordsw. Borderers ii. Wks. (1889) 48/1 My breast..Concentres all the terrors of the Universe. 1825New Monthly Mag. XIV. 333 Lord of a thousand victories, he Concentred his empire's majesty.
c. fig. To collect (the mental faculties, thoughts, etc.) and give them a single direction or purpose.
1772Burke Corr. (1844) I. 377 Whenever we concentre the mind on one sole object. 1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. i, The wretch, concentred all in self. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. x. 220 The neglect of concentering my powers. 1852Conybeare & Howson St. Paul (1862) I. x. 353 How the attention of the whole audience is concentered at the last upon Jesus Christ.
2. To bring close together as by drawing to a centre; to pack closely as round a centre; to bring into small space or volume; hence, often, to increase the vigour or intensity of.
1598Florio, Concentrare, to..incorporate, or concentre hard together. 1633J. Russell Batt. Lutzen in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 199 His death did but concenter and redouble their vigour. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 36 The Spirit of Life that is concenter'd in the Seed. 1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1858) 254 His greatness has ..concentered itself into fiery emphasis and depth. 1853Herschel Pop. Lect. Sc. v. §34 (1873) 209 It would require four hundred such suns concentred into one to send us the light which that superb star actually does.
†3. Chem. = concentrate v. 3. Also fig. Obs.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 73 Doth so collect and concentre those malignant steams. 1673Phil. Trans. VIII. 6024 Thereby more and more to concenter the acid parts. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 19 The acid property required to be drawn and concentered for use.
†4. ? To mix by ‘concentration’ (sense 2); to combine, compound. Obs.
1674Grew Anat. Plants, Lect. ii. Luctation (1682) 242 Stones, and Metals; into which the said Bolus's are transmuted, by being concentred with divers kinds of Salts and Sulphurs, which successively flow in upon them.
II. intr. (for refl.)
5. To converge to, or meet in, a common centre (as radii); to move towards a centre; to come together into one place. lit. and fig.
1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 47 That..his inmost thoughts (like lines in a Circle) shall alwayes concenter in this immoveable point. 1660Boyle Seraph. Love x. (1700) 56 He is that glorious Sun, from whom (as Beams) all created Perfections flow, and in whom they all concentre. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 19 ⁋9 There was no way of life in which all his views could so completely concenter as in that of a soldier. 1816W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XLII. 12 The instruction resident in the different classes will otherwise not concenter in the seat of Government. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xlix, The sea..is studded with bergs, apparently concentering about our anchorage. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. ii. 347 This jealousy of control from without concentred in the subject of taxation.
b. Of circles: To be concentric.
1660Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 129 [They] might be made to have their circles as orderly as those which we find in Brasile, Ebene, &c., which, within a very little, concentre by reason of the uniform course of the Sun about them.
†6. To agree, coincide; to come into, or be in, harmony or accord. Obs.
a1591Greenham in Consid. Peace & Goodw. Prot. 31 The Godly wise on both sides, bear with each other, and concenter in the Main. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler (1843) 41 If the Assembly of all Divines, do not consent, and concenter the sooner. 1702Howe Living Temple Wks. (1834) 107 That the glorious Subsistents in the eternal Godhead should so concentre in kind design..towards a despicable impure worm! 1755T. Amory Mem. (1769) II. 95 By associating and concentring with the divinity.
Hence conˈcentring, -tering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1641Ld. J. Digby Sp. in Ho. Com. 19 Jan. 14 A King..by a Concentring of all the Royall lynes in his Person. |