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<hw>Con*cres"ci*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>Capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>They formed a . . . fixed <b>concrescible</b> oil. <i>Fourcroy (Trans. ).</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Con*cres"cive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Growing together, or into union; uniting.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Eclec. Rev.</i>

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<hw>Con"crete</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>concretus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>concrescere</ets> to grow together; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>crescere</ets> to grow; cf. F. <ets>concret</ets>. See <er>Crescent</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.</def>

<blockquote>The first <b>concrete</b> state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. <i>Bp. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Logic)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distingushed from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to <i>abstract</i>.</def> Hence: <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to <i>general</i>. See <er>Abstract</er>, 3.</def>

<blockquote><b>Concrete</b> is opposed to a abstract. The names of individuals are <b>concrete</b>, those of classes abstract. <i>J. S. Mill.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Concrete</b> terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. <i>I. Watts.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Concrete number</col>, <cd>a number associated with, or applied to, a particular object, as <i>three<i> men, <i>five<i> days, etc., as distinguished from an <i>abstract<i> number, or one used without reference to a particular object.</cd> -- <col>Concrete quantity</col>, <cd>a physical object or a collection of such objects.</cd> <i>Davies & Peck.</i> -- <col>Concrete science</col>, <cd>a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws.</cd> -- <col>Concrete sound <i>or</i> movement of the voice</col>, <cd>one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a <i>discrete</i> movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another.</cd></cs>

<i>Rush.</i>

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<hw>Con"crete</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.</def>

<blockquote>To divide all <b>concretes</b>, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Logic)</fld> <def>A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>concretes</b> "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety". <i>J. S. Mill.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Sugar Making)</fld> <def>Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.</def>

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<hw>Con*crete"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Concreted</er>; <tt>p. pr & vb. n.</tt> <er>Concreting</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.</def>

<note>&hand; Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to <i>indurate</i>; as, metallic matter <i>concretes</i> into a hard body; applied to others, it is equivalent to <i>congeal</i>, <i>thicken</i>, <i>inspissate</i>, <i>coagulate</i>, as in the concretion of blood. "The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to <i>concrete</i>."</note>

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>

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<hw>Con*crete"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.</def>

<blockquote>There are in our inferior world divers bodies that are <b>concreted</b> out of others. <i>Sir M. Hale.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.</def>