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Concentre

//kɑnˈsɛntɚ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To come together at a common centre. UK, dated, intransitive

    "As from each angle of the Vault / Wherein thou lyeſt, a line is brought / Vnto the Kingly founders heart; / So vnto thee, from euery part, / See how our loues doe runne by line, / And dead, concenter in thy Shrine."

  2. 2
    bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions wordnet
  3. 3
    To coincide. UK, dated, intransitive

    "Are we not ſufficiently Brutes, to call that work brutiſh which begets us? […] All Opinions concenter in this, […]"

  4. 4
    To bring together at a common centre. UK, dated, transitive

    "For one ſo rarely tun’d to fit all parts; / For one to whom eſpous’d are all the Arts; / Long have I ſought for: but co’d never ſee / Them all concenter’d in one man, but Thee."

  5. 5
    To focus. UK, dated, transitive

    "For an instant the gaze of the horror-stricken multitude was concentred on the ghastly miracle; […]"

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  1. 6
    To condense, to concentrate. UK, dated, transitive

    "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native land! […] The wretch, concentered all in self, / Living, shall forfeit fair renown, / And, doubly dying, shall go down / To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, / Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung."

Etymology

(late 16th century) From a Romance language, see French concentrer, Italian concentràre, Spanish concentrar; alternatively from Medieval Latin/New Latin concentrō. By surface analysis, con- + centre. Doublet of concentrate.

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