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Tending to cerulean; light bluish.

Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist.

The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

Lying round; borderong on every side. T. Fuller.

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

A conoisseur. Mason.

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. Burke.

Marked by, or causing, complacence. [Obs.] "Complacential love." Baxter.

In a complacent manner.

Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes. [Archaic.] Bacon. That undisturbed song of pure concent. Milton.

To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention. (He) concentrated whole force at his own camp. Motley.

The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration. Concentration of the lunar beams. Boyle. Intense concetration of thought. Sir J. Herschel.

Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration. A discrimination is only possible by a concentrative act, or act of attention. Sir W. Hamilton.

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.