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<hw>Con*cerned"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Concern</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, 2.]</ety> <def>Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; <as>as, to be much <ex>concerned</ex> for the safety of a friend</as>.</def>

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<hw>Con*cern"ed*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.</def>

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<hw>Con*cern"ing</hw>, <tt>prep.</tt> <def>Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards.</def>

<blockquote>I have accepted thee <b>concerning</b> this thing. <i>Gen. xix. 21.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The Lord hath spoken good <b>concerning</b> Israel. <i>Num. x. 29.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Con*cern"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Important.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>So great and so <b>concerning</b> truth. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Con*cern"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.</def> "Our everlasting <i>concernments</i>."

<i>I. Watts.</i>

<blockquote>To mix with thy <b>concernments</b> I desist. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Importance; moment; consequence.</def>

<blockquote>Let every action of <b>concernment</b> to begun with prayer. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Concern; participation; interposition.</def>

<blockquote>He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or <b>concernment</b> in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety.</def>

<blockquote>While they are so eager to destory the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their <b>concernment</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Con*cert"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Concerted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Concerting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>concerter</ets>, It. <ets>concertare</ets>, <ets>conertare</ets>, prob. from L. <ets>consertus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>conserere</ets> to join together; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>serere</ets> to join together, influenced by <ets>concertare</ets> to contend; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>centare</ets> to strive; properly, to try to decide; fr. <ets>cernere</ets> to distinguish. See <er>Series</er>, and cf. <er>Concern</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.</def>

<blockquote>It was <b>concerted</b> to begin the siege in March. <i>Bp. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To plan; to devise; to arrange.</def>

<blockquote>A commander had more trouble to <b>concert</b> his defense before the people than to plan . . . the compaign. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Con*cert"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.</def>

<blockquote>The ministers of Denmark were appointed to <b>concert</b> with Talbot. <i>Bp. Burnet</i></blockquote>