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The act of drinking or tippling together. [R.] The fashion of compotation. Sir W. Scott.

To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite. We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture. Addison.

A praying together. [Obs.] Bp. Wilkins.

To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water. Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. D. Webster. The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his hist…

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

series 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.

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