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concomitant, a. and n.|kənˈkɒmɪtənt|
[ad. L. concomitānt-em, pr. pple. of concomitāri to accompany, go with: see concomitate.]
A. adj. Going together, accompanying, concurrent, attendant. Const. with († of, † to).
1607Topsell Serpents (1653) 611 From the natural concomitant quality of heat, with exspiration, respiration, and inspiration. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. iv, Either concomitant, assisting, or sole causes..of melancholy. 1651Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 166 That which was secret, yet was concomitant of that which was publike. 1711Steele Spect. No. 104 ⁋1 So certainly is Decency concomitant to Virtue. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 373 The concomitant lime⁓stone also contains marine petrifactions. 1856Mill Logic I. 449 The law..admits of corroboration by the Method of Concomitant Variations. 1864Bowen Logic x. (1870) 333 Every event has..a crowd of concomitant circumstances.
B. n.
1. An attendant state, quality, circumstance, or thing; an accompaniment.
[1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. viii. 42 Virgill did excellently..couple the knowledge of causes, and the conquest of all fears, together as Concomitantia.] 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. v, Death is not so terrible in it selfe, as the concomitants of it. 1682Norris Hierocles 14 This reverence of an Oath is..the constant attendant and concomitant of Piety. 1709Prior Paulo Purganti, And for Tobacco (who could bear it?) Filthy Concomitant of Claret. 1750Johnson Rambl. No. 79 ⁋7 Suspicion is justly appointed the concomitant of guilt. 1846Prescott Ferd. & Is. I. i. 96 Wealth with its usual concomitants, elegance and comfort.
†2. A person that accompanies; a companion.
c1645Howell Lett. I. i. xx, You are thus my concomitant through new places. 1651Reliq. Wotton. 81 [He] made him the chief concomitant of his heir apparant. 1698Phil. Trans. XX. 242 His Concomitants and Assistants in the Operations. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II, I find this person often introduced as a concomitant of Psuche.
3. Math. (See quot.)
1853Sylvester in Phil. Trans. CXLIII. i. 543 Concomitant. Nomen generalissimum for a form invariantively connected with a given form or system of forms. 1859Salmon Higher Algebra (1866) 104 Dr. Sylvester uses the name concomitant as a general word to include all functions whose relations to the quantic are unaltered by linear transformation, and he calls the functions now under consideration mixed concomitants. |