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

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question.

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts.

Strife; contention. [Obs.] Bailey.

Contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Bailey.

Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals. Concerted piece (Mus.), a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc.

A small musical imstrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.

A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto.

Act of concerting; adjustment. [R.] Young.

head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.

A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.

ak up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

The act of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation. [R.] State Trials (1794).

To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n.

The act of preconcerting; preconcert. Dr. T. Dwight.

citing suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.

An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.