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The quality of concentrating.

An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. Knight.

That which has a common center with something else. Its pecular relations to its concentrics. Coleridge.

Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another. Concentric circles upon the surface of the water. Sir I. Newton. Concentrical rings like those of an onion. Arbuthnot.

In a concentric manner.

The state of being concentric.

Possesing harmony; accordant. [R.] Warton.

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal. The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term. Sir W. Hamilton.

That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. [Obs.] Woodward.

The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness. Cudworth.

Capable of being conceived; conceivable. Sir M. Hale.

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life. I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Gen. iii. 16.

Pertaining to conception.

A conceptualist.

Apt to conceive; fruitful. [Obs.] Shak.

Capable of conceiving. Sir T. Browne

Pertaining to conception.

between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects. Stewart.

One who maintains the theory of conceptualism. Stewart.

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts xxviii. 31. Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than…