concremation 
concremationt (kon-kre-ma'shon), . [< LL. 
coHcreinatio(n-), < L. cohcrcmtire, pp. concrcm/i- 
tus, burn up, < com-, together, + cremare, burn : 
see cremate.] The act of burning up; burning 
or cremation, as of dead bodies. 
When some one died drowned, or in any other way 
which excluded cvticreiiiation and required burial, they 
made a likeness of him and put it on the altar of idols, 
together with a large offering of wine and Invad. 
Quoted by //. Spencer. 
concrement (kon'kre-ment), . [< LL. con- 
cremcntum, < L. concrescere, grow together: see 
concresce, and cf. increment.] A growing toge- 
ther; concretion; a concreted mass. [Rare.] 
The concrement of a pebble or flint. 
Sir M. Hale, Grig, of Mankind. 
The stony concrements which are found, about the size 
of a pea, in the apices of the lungs of old people. 
Volley, Bacteria Investigation, p. 172. 
concresce (kon-kres'), j pret. and pp. con- 
cresced, ppr. concrescing. [< L. concrescere, 
grow together, < com-, together, + crescere, 
grow: see crescent, and cf. accresce, accrease, 
increase, etc. Cf . concrete.] To grow together. 
The concresced lips of an elongated blastopore. 
J. A. Ryder. 
concrescence (kon-kres'ens), n. [= Sp. concre- 
cencia, < L. conc'rescentia, < concrescere, grow to- 
gether: see concresce.] 1. Growth or increase; 
increment. 
Seeing it is neither a substance perfect, nor ... in- 
choate, . . . how any other substance should thence take 
concrescence it hath not been taught. 
Ralevjh, Hist. World, I. i. 10. 
2. A growing together, in general; a coming 
together in process of growth or development, 
to unite or form one part : in anat. and zool., 
used of parts originally separate. 
The concrescence of the folds of the mantle to form a 
definitely-closed shell-sac. 
E. R. Lankester, Encyc. Brit., XVI. 671. 
3. In biol. , the growing together or coalescence 
of two or several individual cells or other or- 
ganisms ; conjugation ; a kind of copulation in 
which two or more organisms become one. See 
conjugation, 4. 
The act of reproduction commences as a rule with the 
complete or partial fusion of two individuals. . . . This 
concrescence gives the stimulus to changes in the appro- 
priate parts. Oegenbavr, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 88. 
4. In bot., the union of cell-walls, as those of 
mycelial hyph, by means of a cementing sub- 
stance formed in process of growth, so that 
they are inseparably grown together. Also 
called cementation. 
concrescible (kon-kres'i-bl), a. [< F. concres- 
cible = Sp. concrecible = Pg. concrescivel = It. 
concrescibile, < NL. as if *concrescibilis, < L. 
concrescere, grow together: see concresce, con- 
crete.] 1. Capable of concrescing or growing 
together. 2. Capable of becoming concrete, 
or of solidifying. 
They formed a genuine, fixed, concregcible oil. 
Fourcroy (trans.). 
concrescive (kpn-kres'iv), a. [< concresce + 
-ive.] Growing together ; uniting. [Rare.] 
concrete (kon'kret or kpn-kret'), a. and n. [= 
D. konkreet = G. conerei = Dan. Sw. konkret = 
F. Pr. concret = Sp. Pg. It. concreto, < L. con- 
cretus, grown together, hardened, condensed, 
solid (neut. concretum, firm or solid matter), pp. 
of concrescere, grow together, harden, condense, 
stiffen: see concresce, and cf. discrete.] I. a. 1. 
Formed by coalescence of separate particles 
or constituents ; forming a mass; united in a 
coagulated, condensed, or solid state. 
The first concrete state or consistent surface of the chaos 
must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. 
Bp. Burnet. 
2. In logic, considered as invested with the ac- 
cidents of matter ; particular; individual: op- 
posed to abstract. 
There is also this difference between concrete and ab- 
stract names, that those were invented before proposi- 
tions, but these after ; for these could have no being till 
there were propositions from whose copula they proceed. 
Hoboes, Works, I. iii. 4. 
Bunyan is almost the only writer who ever gave to the 
abstract the interest of the concrete. 
Macaulay, Pilgrim's Progress. 
A concrete notion is the notion of a body as it exists in 
nature invested with all its qualities. 
Fleming, Vocab. of Philos., p. 105. 
3. In music, melodically unbroken; without 
skips or distinct steps in passing from one pitch 
to another. 4. Consisting of concrete: as, a 
concrete pavement. -concrete abstraction. See 
abstraction. Concrete noun, the name of something 
having a concrete existence : opposed to an abstract noun, 
which is the name of an attribute. Concrete number. 
See abstract, a., 1. 
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II. n. 1. A mass formed by concretion or 
coalescence of separate particles of matter in 
one body. 
They pretend to be able by the fire to divide all t-nn- 
ovfcx, minerals and others, into distinct substances. 
Ilo/ili; Works, I. 544. 
2. In gram, and logic, a concrete noun; a par- 
ticular, individual term ; especially, a class- 
name or proper name. 
Vitality and Sensibility, Life and Consciousness, are ab- 
stractions having real concretes. They are compendious 
expressions of functional processes conceived in their to- 
tality, and not at any single stage. 
G. II. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, I. ii. 2. 
3. A compact mass of sand, gravel, coarse peb- 
bles, or stone clappings cemented together by 
hydraulic or other mortar, or by asphalt or re- 
fuse tar. It is employed extensively in building under 
water (for example, to form the bottom of a canal or the 
foundations of any structure raised in the sea, as piers, 
breakwaters, etc.), and for pavements. The walls of houses 
are sometimes formed of it, the ingredients being first firm- 
ly rammed into molds of the requisite shape, and allowed 
to set. The finer kind of concrete used for purposes re- 
quiring the greatest solidity is known as Man (which see). 
4. Sugar which has been reduced to a solid 
mass by evaporation in a concretor. 
concrete (kon-kref), r. ; pret. and pp. concreted, 
ppr. concreting. [= F. concreter, coagulate, = 
Sp. concretar = It. concretare, concrete, < L. 
concretus, pp. of concrescere, grow together: see 
concresce and concrete, a.] I. intrans. To unite 
or coalesce into a mass or solid body ; form 
concretions; coagulate; congeal; clot. 
The particles of tinging substances and salts dissolved 
in water do not of their own accord concrete and fall to the 
bottom. Newton, iu Boyle's Works, I. 114. 
The blood of some who died in the plague could not be 
made to concrete. Arbuthnot. 
II. trans. 1. To form into a mass, as separate 
particles, by cohesion or coalescence. 
There are in our inferior world divers bodies that are 
concreted out of others. Sir M. Hale, Orig. of Mankind. 
2. To combine so as to form a concrete no- 
tion. 
How . . . could there be such a science as optics were 
we necessitated to contemplate colour concreted with fig- 
ure, two attributes which the eye can never view but as- 
sociated 7 Harris, Hermes, Iii. 4. 
concretely (kon'kret-li or kpn-kret'li), adv. In 
a concrete form or manner ; not abstractly. 
The properties of bodies . . . taken concretely together 
with their subjects. Cudmorth, Intellectual System, p. 67. 
Without studying Homer and Dante and Moliere and 
the rest, one can get but a very meagre notion of human 
history as concretely revealed in the thoughts of past gen- 
erations. J. Fielce, Cosmic Philos., I. 137. 
concreteness (kon'kret-nes or kpn-kret'nes), . 
The quality or state of being concrete, in any 
sense. 
The individuality of a concept is thus not to be con- 
founded with the sensible concreteness of an Intuition 
either distinct or indistinct. 
J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 77. 
concrete-press (kon'kret-pres), . A machine 
for pressing concrete into the form of blocks 
for use in building or paving. 
concretianism (kon-kre'shan-izm), n. [< *con- 
cretian, erroneous form of concretion, in lit. sense 
of ' a growing together,' -f- -ism.] The doctrine 
that the soul is generated at the same time as 
the body and develops along with it. [Rare.] 
concretion (kpn-kre'shpn), n. [=F. concretion 
= Pr. concrecio = Sp. concrecion = Pg. concrecflo 
= It. concrezione, < L. concretio(n~), < concrescere, 
pp. concretus, grow together: see concresce.] 
1. The act of growing together or becoming 
united in one mass ; concrescence ; coalescence. 
2. A mass of solid matter formed by a grow- 
ing together, or by congelation, condensation, 
coagulation, conglomeration, or induration; a 
clot; a lump; a nodule: as, "concretions of 
slime," Bacon. 
These greedy flames shall have devoured whatever was 
combustible, and converted into a smoak and vapour all 
grosser concretions. 
Glanmlle, Pre-exUtence of Souls, p. 178. 
Calcareous Concretions from Clay-beds. 
concubinacy 
Specifically 3. In groL, an aggregation of 
mineral matter, usually calcareous or silieious, 
in concentric layers, so arranged as to give rise 
to a form approaching the spherical, but often 
much flattened. This often takes place about some or- 
ganic nucleus, tile decomposition of which seems in such 
cases to tie the cause of the structure. Concretions arc 
common in sandstones, shales, and clays. 
4. In logic : (<i) The state of being concrete; 
concreteness. (6) The act of determination, or 
of rendering a concept more concrete or deter- 
minate by adding to the marks it contains. 
The mind surmounts all power of concretion, and can 
place in the simplest manner every attribute by itself. 
Harris, Hermes, iii. 1. 
Gouty concretions, nodules of sodium nrate formed in 
the tissues of gouty persons. Morbid concretions, in 
the animal economy, hard substances which occasionally 
make their appearance in different parts of the body, as 
pineal concretions, salivary concretions, hepatic concre- 
tions, etc. 
concretional (kon-kre'shon-al), a. [< concretion 
+ -al.] Pertaining to concretion ; formed by 
concretion ; concretionary. 
concretionary (kon-kre'shpn-a-ri), o. [= F. 
concretion miirc ; as concretion 4- -ary.~\ 1. Char- 
acterized by concretion ; formed by concretion ; 
concretional. 
In some Phallusite the alimentary canal is coated by a 
very peculiar tissue, consisting of innumerable spherical 
sacs containing a yellow concretionary matter. 
Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 518. 
The tubular layer rises up through the pigmentary layer 
of the crab's shell in little papillary elevations, which 
seem to be concretionary nodules. 
W, B. Carpenter, Micros., 613. 
Specifically 2. In geol., consisting of mineral 
matter which has been collected (either from 
the surrounding 
rock or from with- 
out) around some 
center, so as to form 
a more or less regu- 
larly shaped mass. 
Carbouate of lime depos- 
ited from hot springs of- 
ten displays the concre- 
tionary structure in a 
high degree. In a single 
concretion all the parts Concretionary Structure, 
are subordinate to one 
center ; in a concretionary rock the whole mass is made 
up of more or less distinctly formed concretions, 
concretism (kon'kre-tizm or kon-kre'tizm), n. 
[< concrete + -ism.'] The habit or practice of 
regarding as concrete or real what is abstract 
or ideal. 
It is a surprising instance of this tendency to concretism, 
that, among people so civilized as the Buddhists, the most 
obviously moral beast-fables have become literal incidents 
of sacred history. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 374. 
COncretive (kon-kre'tiv), a. [= F. cvncretif = 
Pr. concretiu; as concrete + -ive.] Causing 
to concrete ; having power to produce concre- 
tion ; tending to form a solid mass from sepa- 
rate particles: as, "concretire juices," Sir T. 
Browne, Vulg. Err. 
concretively (kon-kre'tiv-li), adv. 1. In a 
concretive manner. 2f. Concretely; not ab- 
stractly. 
It is urged that although baptism take away the guilt as 
concretively redounding to the person, yet the simple ab- 
stracted guilt as to the nature remains. 
Jer. Taylor, Polem. Discourses, p. 907. 
COncretor (kon-kre'tor), . [< NL. "concretor, 
< L. concretus, pp. of concrescere, harden, con- 
dense. See concrete.'] In sugar-manuf., a ma- 
chine in which syrup is reduced to a solid mass 
by evaporation. 
COncreturet (kon-kre'tur), n. [< L. as if *con~ 
cretura, < concrescere, pp. concretus, grow to- 
gether : see concresce, concrete.] A mass formed 
by coagulation. Johnson. 
concrewt (kon-kro"), v. i. [For *concrue (cf. 
accrue, formerly also accrete), ult. < L. concres- 
cere, grow together: see concresce.] To grow 
together. 
And his faire lockes, that wont with ointment sweet 
To be embaulm'd, and sweat out dainty dew, 
He let to grow and eriesly to concrete. 
Spenter, F. Q., IV. vii. 40. 
concrimination (kon-krim-i-na'shon), . [< 
con-, together, + crimination. Cf. L. concrimi- 
natus, pp. of concriminari, complain, < cow- (in- 
tensive) + criminari, complain of, accuse : see 
criminate.'] A joint accusation. Maunder. 
concubariat (kon-ku-ba'ri-a), n. [NL., < L. 
concumbere, lie together: see concitbine.~\ A 
fold, pen, or place where cattle lie. Cowell. 
COncubinacyt (kpn-ku'bi-na-si), . [< concubine 
+ -ucy.] The practice of concubinage. 
Their country was very infamous for conculrinacy , adul- 
tery, and incest. Strype, Edw. VI., an. 1550. 
