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concentred, -tered, ppl. a.|kənˈsɛntəd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
†1. Placed or seated in the centre. Obs. rare.
1632Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 82 The concentred point of his heart.
2. Brought to a common centre; concentrated.
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 84 Yet, more fit and concenter [? read concenter'd], is that aculeate speech of Chrys[ostom] when Eudoxia the Empresse raged against him, like a Lyonesse. 1670W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 62 A mineral..may have its parts so concentred. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 33 Each Grain..contains in itself..the little concenter'd Plant. 1796Bp. Watson Apol. Bible 347 The concentered essence of all ethics. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) V. ix. viii. 427 The concentred hatred and bigotry which was the soul of the enterprise.
3. fig. Of the mental faculties: Directed to a single point or object. Said also of persons.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. II. xxii. 136 The excitement arising from concentered attention. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. ii. ii. 65 There exists Oft in concentred spirits not less daring Than in more loud avengers. 1868Milman St. Paul's x. 246 Christian resolution in its concentered majesty.
4. Pathol. = concentrated 3.
1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 313 An universal Cold; which subsisted three Days, with a concentered Pulse. |