coalescev.

Brit.

/ˌkəʊəˈlɛs/, U.S.

/ˌkoʊəˈlɛs/

Forms: 1500s coalesse, 1600s– coalesce, 1700s coälesce.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French coalescer; Latin coalēscere.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French coalescer to cause to come together (1537 in the passage translated in quot. ?1541 at sense 1), (used reflexively) to grow or come together (16th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin coalēscere to grow or be joined together, to combine, to unite, become unified < co- co- prefix + alēscere to grow up (see adolescent n.).

1. transitive. To bring together, merge; to combine (parts or elements) to form one whole.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (transitive)] > cause to combine > coalesce or fuse

coalesce?1541

fuse1817

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Hiv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens To do all y^t is conuenable to coalesse [Fr. coalescer] & close an vlcere togyther.

1605 G. Buck Daphnis Polystephanos Ep. Ded. sig. A3^v In your sacred person are iointly met, and coalesced, the royall blouds, interests, and titles not onely of all Great Britaine, but also of France and Ireland.

1720 A. Collins Baronettage of Eng. I. 412 More of him may be seen in Sir William Dugdale's Baronage..(who coalesces these two Ralphs [sc. Sir Ralph Gorges and his son].)

1790 Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 141/1 This coalesced the apparent bulk of the nation..in one common interest.

1845 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 65/1 We need not say more to shew how much space might have been saved by compressing and coalescing the multiform heads which are presented by such words as the verb abie.

1894 Sci. Amer. 6 Jan. 2/3 When mercury becomes ‘floured’ or ‘sick’, as it is called, a little sodium amalgam wholly cures it, and coalesces the detached globules instantly.

1906 Daily Chron. 4/4 The two hostile peoples contracted alliances, joined fleets, coalesced armies, and fought side by side at Navarino and Sevastopol.

1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) v. 203 Paramnesia coalesces a still distinguishable past and present.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 Jan. a13/5 We are..taking a big-picture approach, to try to coalesce the themes that are most important.

2. Of a number of parts or elements: to grow or come together, merge; to unite or combine to form one whole. Also of a whole: to form in this way.

a. intransitive. Of immaterial things or non-physical combination.

ΚΠ

1651 T. Goodwin Christ Universall Peace-Maker 53 Shall the Elect coalesce in one New man, because they once met in him, that is, the body, and not the shadow?

a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. iii. 345 It was requisite, that..both of them should coalesce into one Person, but without confounding them together.

1739 Old Whig I. No. 21. 179 True Whiggism and staunch Toryism are..quite irreconcilable with each other; it is impossible they can ever coalesce, or be brought into a real union and friendship.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music v. §13. 92 The Characters of Legislator and Bard did often and naturally coalesce.

1833 W. G. Simms Martin Faber ii. 19 Should I now hesitate, when a sense of justice, and a feeling of friendly sympathy coalesced towards the same end, both calling upon me for action.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. i. §6. 23 To find that truth in which Religion and Science coalesce.

1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xxi. 258 Miette looked him over in her turn, cheekily, and down in her shallow depths the straggling wisps of passion stirred and swiftly coalesced.

1995 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 8 Jan. 2/3 As your thoughts drift and coalesce, they may provide you with a solution for your problems.

b. intransitive. Of material things or physical combination.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (intransitive)] > coalesce

runOE

incorpora1618

incorporate1625

coalesce1652

coalize1697

symphytize1871

1652 W. Charleton Darknes Atheism ix. 307 Atoms..could not but convene, coalesce, and cohære into any other Forme, but what they did.

1722 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 23 The superficial Stars would gravitate towards those near the center, and with an accelerated motion run into them, and in the process of time coalesce and unite with them into one.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 346 If the water surrounding one particle of air comes in contact with the water surrounding another, they coalesce, and form a drop, and we have rain.

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 621 The barrier reefs coalesce with the fringing reefs.

1887 Chemist & Druggist 26 Nov. 658/2 On gently rubbing the sublimate the finely-divided mercury coalesces into globules.

1914 H. Brown Rubber 69 If the creamed globules are separated from the liquid..they coalesce to form a mass of rubber.

1995 A. M. Cvancara Field Man. Amateur Geologist (rev. ed.) vi. 61 Sinkholes may merge and coalesce to form elongate, blind-ended or closed solution valleys.

3. intransitive. Of persons or parties: to unite into one body or association, to come together in an alliance or coalition.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (intransitive)]

jousta1325

ally?a1400

joinc1400

associe1441

confederc1460

to stick together1525

band1530

to join forces1560

colleaguec1565

alliance1569

to enter league1578

unite1579

interleague1590

confederate1591

to join hands1598

combine1608

injointa1616

combinda1626

bandy1633

comply1646

federate1648

leaguea1649

associate1653

coalesce1657

to understand each other1663

sociate1688

to row in the same (also in one) boat1787

rendezvous1817

to make common cause (with)1845

to sing the same song1846

cahoot1857

to gang up1910

jungle1922

1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum iii. iv. 668 The Ceremonial Law..differencing the Iews from the Gentiles, was a Matter of Enmity betwixt them, so that they did not coalesce and incorporate into one Church till Christs Death.

1724 H. Stebbing Ess. Civil Govt. iii. 122 A number of Wise and Reasonable Men..coalescing into a Body Politick.

1781 J. Bentham Let. 15–17 Sept. in Corr. (1971) III. 87 A disposition among his friends to coalesce.

1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 37 Nor do I much despair of finding many judges (of riding I mean) coälesce in sentiment with me.

1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1854) I. 306 Who had bound himself, by a solemn promise, never to coalesce with Pitt.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. i. 5 She and her nurse coalesced in wondrous union.

1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. i. 19 Only a portion of their tribes coalesced to repel his invasion.

1901 R. L. Ottley Short Hist. Hebrews vi. 137 In the early stages of the conquest we find the Kenites coalescing with the Judahites.

1969 Pacific Affairs 42 154 A never-erased tendency of the peoples of the subcontinent to coalesce round local loyalties, local interests, and local cultures.

2002 Time 6 May 28/1 The Bush team..seemed to coalesce in September after months of intramural bickering.

a. intransitive. Now chiefly Botany. Of parts of a plant, animal, cell, etc.: to grow together; to form a single part or structure.In figurative context in quot. 1672.

ΚΠ

1672 T. Jacombe Several Serm. Rom. 62 What is it for the Branch to be ty'd or fast'ned to the Stock, if it doth not coalesce and incorporate with the Stock?

1682 T. Gibson Anat. Humane Bodies xiii. 477 In Infants it [sc. the breast-bone] consists of seven or eight [parts], but after some years they so coalesce one to another, that in the adult it is compounded but of three, and in aged persons it seemeth but one Bone.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. v. 169 To preserve the Sides of the Capillary Vessels from coalescing and growing together.

1800 E. Darwin Phytologia 411 Its caudexes, which had already formed a part of the bark, coalesce.

1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 227 These surfaces..are developed on separate epiphysial plates, which coalesce in the course of growth with the rest of the centrum.

1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. ii. v. 496 The carpels..have coalesced to form the ovary.

1903 Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. I. 460 In all Synapsidan types above the Cotylosauria the squamosals and pro-squamosals early coalesce.

1933 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 20 345 Tetraploid and octoploid nuclei result from the second and third divisions, respectively, when the two nuclear cavities coalesce during the late prophases as the nuclear membranes disappear.

1982 R. Hinde Ethology (1986) Pref. 15 And as it grows and engulfs new items, the shape and structure of the Amoeba changes—pseudopodia coalesce and new ones bud out.

2002 New Scientist 16 Nov. 89/3 The ovary of each flower becomes a berry, and all the berries coalesce into one solid structure.

†b. intransitive. Of soil or earth: to become aggregated into lumps, to cake. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [verb (intransitive)] > form lumps

clotterc1405

clodder1499

clod1530

clot1530

cluster1561

clunter1587

clutter1601

coagulate1669

lump1722

coalesce1759

1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. viii. 22 For earth, alone, we find, is liable to coalesce.

1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 211 When stiff land is not hoed, it will soon coalesce.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	coalesce
释义	coalescev. Brit. /ˌkəʊəˈlɛs/, U.S. /ˌkoʊəˈlɛs/ Forms: 1500s coalesse, 1600s– coalesce, 1700s coälesce. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French coalescer; Latin coalēscere. Etymology: < (i) Middle French coalescer to cause to come together (1537 in the passage translated in quot. ?1541 at sense 1), (used reflexively) to grow or come together (16th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin coalēscere to grow or be joined together, to combine, to unite, become unified < co- co- prefix + alēscere to grow up (see adolescent n.). 1. transitive. To bring together, merge; to combine (parts or elements) to form one whole. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (transitive)] > cause to combine > coalesce or fuse coalesce?1541 fuse1817 ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Hiv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens To do all y^t is conuenable to coalesse [Fr. coalescer] & close an vlcere togyther. 1605 G. Buck Daphnis Polystephanos Ep. Ded. sig. A3^v In your sacred person are iointly met, and coalesced, the royall blouds, interests, and titles not onely of all Great Britaine, but also of France and Ireland. 1720 A. Collins Baronettage of Eng. I. 412 More of him may be seen in Sir William Dugdale's Baronage..(who coalesces these two Ralphs [sc. Sir Ralph Gorges and his son].) 1790 Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 141/1 This coalesced the apparent bulk of the nation..in one common interest. 1845 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 65/1 We need not say more to shew how much space might have been saved by compressing and coalescing the multiform heads which are presented by such words as the verb abie. 1894 Sci. Amer. 6 Jan. 2/3 When mercury becomes ‘floured’ or ‘sick’, as it is called, a little sodium amalgam wholly cures it, and coalesces the detached globules instantly. 1906 Daily Chron. 4/4 The two hostile peoples contracted alliances, joined fleets, coalesced armies, and fought side by side at Navarino and Sevastopol. 1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) v. 203 Paramnesia coalesces a still distinguishable past and present. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 Jan. a13/5 We are..taking a big-picture approach, to try to coalesce the themes that are most important. 2. Of a number of parts or elements: to grow or come together, merge; to unite or combine to form one whole. Also of a whole: to form in this way. a. intransitive. Of immaterial things or non-physical combination. ΚΠ 1651 T. Goodwin Christ Universall Peace-Maker 53 Shall the Elect coalesce in one New man, because they once met in him, that is, the body, and not the shadow? a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. iii. 345 It was requisite, that..both of them should coalesce into one Person, but without confounding them together. 1739 Old Whig I. No. 21. 179 True Whiggism and staunch Toryism are..quite irreconcilable with each other; it is impossible they can ever coalesce, or be brought into a real union and friendship. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music v. §13. 92 The Characters of Legislator and Bard did often and naturally coalesce. 1833 W. G. Simms Martin Faber ii. 19 Should I now hesitate, when a sense of justice, and a feeling of friendly sympathy coalesced towards the same end, both calling upon me for action. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. i. §6. 23 To find that truth in which Religion and Science coalesce. 1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xxi. 258 Miette looked him over in her turn, cheekily, and down in her shallow depths the straggling wisps of passion stirred and swiftly coalesced. 1995 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 8 Jan. 2/3 As your thoughts drift and coalesce, they may provide you with a solution for your problems. b. intransitive. Of material things or physical combination. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (intransitive)] > coalesce runOE incorpora1618 incorporate1625 coalesce1652 coalize1697 symphytize1871 1652 W. Charleton Darknes Atheism ix. 307 Atoms..could not but convene, coalesce, and cohære into any other Forme, but what they did. 1722 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 23 The superficial Stars would gravitate towards those near the center, and with an accelerated motion run into them, and in the process of time coalesce and unite with them into one. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 346 If the water surrounding one particle of air comes in contact with the water surrounding another, they coalesce, and form a drop, and we have rain. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 621 The barrier reefs coalesce with the fringing reefs. 1887 Chemist & Druggist 26 Nov. 658/2 On gently rubbing the sublimate the finely-divided mercury coalesces into globules. 1914 H. Brown Rubber 69 If the creamed globules are separated from the liquid..they coalesce to form a mass of rubber. 1995 A. M. Cvancara Field Man. Amateur Geologist (rev. ed.) vi. 61 Sinkholes may merge and coalesce to form elongate, blind-ended or closed solution valleys. 3. intransitive. Of persons or parties: to unite into one body or association, to come together in an alliance or coalition. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (intransitive)] jousta1325 ally?a1400 joinc1400 associe1441 confederc1460 to stick together1525 band1530 to join forces1560 colleaguec1565 alliance1569 to enter league1578 unite1579 interleague1590 confederate1591 to join hands1598 combine1608 injointa1616 combinda1626 bandy1633 comply1646 federate1648 leaguea1649 associate1653 coalesce1657 to understand each other1663 sociate1688 to row in the same (also in one) boat1787 rendezvous1817 to make common cause (with)1845 to sing the same song1846 cahoot1857 to gang up1910 jungle1922 1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum iii. iv. 668 The Ceremonial Law..differencing the Iews from the Gentiles, was a Matter of Enmity betwixt them, so that they did not coalesce and incorporate into one Church till Christs Death. 1724 H. Stebbing Ess. Civil Govt. iii. 122 A number of Wise and Reasonable Men..coalescing into a Body Politick. 1781 J. Bentham Let. 15–17 Sept. in Corr. (1971) III. 87 A disposition among his friends to coalesce. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 37 Nor do I much despair of finding many judges (of riding I mean) coälesce in sentiment with me. 1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1854) I. 306 Who had bound himself, by a solemn promise, never to coalesce with Pitt. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. i. 5 She and her nurse coalesced in wondrous union. 1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. i. 19 Only a portion of their tribes coalesced to repel his invasion. 1901 R. L. Ottley Short Hist. Hebrews vi. 137 In the early stages of the conquest we find the Kenites coalescing with the Judahites. 1969 Pacific Affairs 42 154 A never-erased tendency of the peoples of the subcontinent to coalesce round local loyalties, local interests, and local cultures. 2002 Time 6 May 28/1 The Bush team..seemed to coalesce in September after months of intramural bickering. 4. a. intransitive. Now chiefly Botany. Of parts of a plant, animal, cell, etc.: to grow together; to form a single part or structure.In figurative context in quot. 1672. ΚΠ 1672 T. Jacombe Several Serm. Rom. 62 What is it for the Branch to be ty'd or fast'ned to the Stock, if it doth not coalesce and incorporate with the Stock? 1682 T. Gibson Anat. Humane Bodies xiii. 477 In Infants it [sc. the breast-bone] consists of seven or eight [parts], but after some years they so coalesce one to another, that in the adult it is compounded but of three, and in aged persons it seemeth but one Bone. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. v. 169 To preserve the Sides of the Capillary Vessels from coalescing and growing together. 1800 E. Darwin Phytologia 411 Its caudexes, which had already formed a part of the bark, coalesce. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 227 These surfaces..are developed on separate epiphysial plates, which coalesce in the course of growth with the rest of the centrum. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. ii. v. 496 The carpels..have coalesced to form the ovary. 1903 Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. I. 460 In all Synapsidan types above the Cotylosauria the squamosals and pro-squamosals early coalesce. 1933 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 20 345 Tetraploid and octoploid nuclei result from the second and third divisions, respectively, when the two nuclear cavities coalesce during the late prophases as the nuclear membranes disappear. 1982 R. Hinde Ethology (1986) Pref. 15 And as it grows and engulfs new items, the shape and structure of the Amoeba changes—pseudopodia coalesce and new ones bud out. 2002 New Scientist 16 Nov. 89/3 The ovary of each flower becomes a berry, and all the berries coalesce into one solid structure. †b. intransitive. Of soil or earth: to become aggregated into lumps, to cake. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [verb (intransitive)] > form lumps clotterc1405 clodder1499 clod1530 clot1530 cluster1561 clunter1587 clutter1601 coagulate1669 lump1722 coalesce1759 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. viii. 22 For earth, alone, we find, is liable to coalesce. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 211 When stiff land is not hoed, it will soon coalesce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?1541
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