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congealed, ppl. a.|kənˈdʒiːld|
[f. congeal v. + -ed. In 16–17th c. also stressed ˈcongeal'd.]
1. Made solid and hard by freezing; frozen.
1432–50Higden (Rolls) I. 323 Islandia is an yle, hauenge..on the north the see congelede. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 59 The snau is ane congelit rane. 1634Milton Comus 449 That snaky headed Gorgon Shield..Wherewith she freez'd her foes to congeal'd stone. 1854W. Kelly tr. Arago's Astron. (ed. 5) 139 Found..on the shores of the Icy Sea, a great elephant enclosed in a mass of congealed mud.
2. Solidified as if by freezing; † crystallized, petrified; † (of vapour) condensed.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 36 This roche..was lyk a thing of glas..But of what congeled matere Hit was, I niste redely. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Least the congealed vapour drop thence. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. xii. §6 (1681) 246 The congealed drops [of lead] or shot. 17..Berkeley Cave of Dunmore Wks. IV. 505 A quantity of this congealed water that..resembles a heap of snow. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 59 Many crystallized minerals are vulgarly called ‘congealed water’.
3. Made into a jelly or viscid substance; curdled, clotted, coagulated.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 25 a, Oppilations, or hard congeled matter in the inner partes of the body. 1548Compl. Scot. vi. 67 To purge congelit [printed congeli] fleume of the lychtis. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 56 Dead Henries wounds Open their congeal'd mouthes, and bleed afresh. 1658A. Fox tr. Wurtz' Surg. iii. ix. 242 Congealed bloud settleth to the side.
Hence conˈgealedness.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. ii. i. vii, Especially if they come from the North, the congeledness of this Meteor [hail] bearing upon it the character of that Quarter. |