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Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.

Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

To print together.

- (cum, signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.

To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another. This all things friendly will concatenate. Dr. H. More

ries of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

To celebrate together. [Obs.] Holland.

To draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate. In thee concentering all their precious beams. Milton. All is concentered in a life intense. Byren.

ncrease the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to Ant: dilute. Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength. Arbuthnot.…

To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation. It was concerted to begin the siege in March. Bp. Burnet.

To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear. [Obs.] Holland.

An outcry or shout of many together. [R.] Before his funeral conclamation. May (Lucan).

To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace. [Obs.] For God hath concluded all in unbelief. Rom. xi. 32. The Scripture hath concluded all under sin. Gal. iii. 22.

To agree; to act together. [Obs.] Clarendon.

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale.

The act of burning different things together. [Obs.]

A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [Obs.] The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale

Growing together, or into union; uniting. [R.] Eclec. Rev.

A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.

To grow together. [Obs.] Spenser.