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CONCOR'DANT VERSES, /. Such as have feveral 
words in common ; but which, by the addition of other 
words, convey an oppolite or different meaning. Such 
are thofe, 
. YiT/Ji. 
CONCOR'DATE, /. [ concordat , Fr. -concordatum, Lat.] 
Tn the canon law, a compaft 5 a convention.—How comes 
he to number the want of fynods in the Gallican church 
among the grievances of that concordate, and as a mark 
of their (lavery, fince he reckons all convocations of the 
clergy in England to be uielels and dangerous. Swift. 
CONCOR'DIA, the goddefs of peace and concord at 
Rome, to whom Camillus firft raifed a temple in the capi- 
tol, where the magiftrates often affembled tor the tranfac- 
tion of public bufinefs. She had, befides this, other tem¬ 
ples and ftatues, and was addreffed to promote the peace 
and union of families and citizens. Pliny. 
CONCOR'DIA, about five miles from Porto Gruaro, 
on the river Lemene, in Maritime Aultria, is a town, 
with a cathedral church, from which a bifhopric derives 
its name. This town was very confiderable in former 
times; but the foldiers under Attila did lb much mil- 
chief there, that the inhabitants have hitherto been in¬ 
capable of repairing the lofs. 
CONCOR'DIA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Mi- 
randola, on the Sechia : five miles weft of Mirandola. It 
was taken by the French and Spaniards from the Impe- 
rialifts in 1704. 
CONCOR'PORAL, adj. [from concorporo, Lat. to in¬ 
corporate.] Of the lame body. 
To CONCOR'PORATE, v. n. To unite in one mafs or 
fubftance.—When we concorporate the fign with the figni- 
fication, we conjoin the word with the Ipirit. Taylor. 
To CONCOR'PORATE, v. n. To unite into one body: 
Thus we chaftife the god of wine 
With water that is feminine, 
Until the cooler nymph abate 
His wrath, and fo concorporate. Cleaveland. 
CONCORPORA'TION, / Union in one mafs; inti¬ 
mate mixture. 
CON'COTS, a town of France in the department of the 
Lot: three leagues eaft-fouth-eaft of Cahors. 
CONCOURE'S, a town of France, in the department 
of the Aveiron, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Rhodez : feven miles north-north-eaft of Rhodez. 
CON'COURSE,/. [concurfus, Lat.] The confluence of 
many perfons or things to one place.—The coalition of 
the good frame of the univerfe was not the produft of 
chance, or fortuitous concourfe of particles of matter. Hale. 
Vain is his force, and vainer is his Ikill, 
With fuch a concourfe comes the flood of ill. Dryden . 
The perfons affembled : 
The prince with wonder hears, from ev’ry part, 
The noife and bul’y concourfe of the mart. Dryden. 
The point of junftion or interfeftion of two bodies.— 
So foon as the upper glafs is laid upon the lower, fo as to 
touch it at one end, and to touch the drop at the other 
end, making with the low'er glafs an angle of about ten 
or fifteen minutes; the drop will begin to move towards 
the concourfe of the glaffes, and will continue to move with 
an accelerated motion, till it arrives at that concourfe of the 
glaffes. Newton. 
CONCREMA'TION, f [from concremo, Lat. to burn 
together.] The ail of burning many things together. 
CON'CREMENT,/ [from concrefco, Lat.] The mafs 
formed by concretion ; a collection of matter growing to¬ 
gether.—There is the cohefion of the matter into a more 
loofe confiftency, like clay, and thereby it is prepared to 
the concrement of a pebble or flint. Hale. 
CONCRES'CENCE, f [from concrefco, Lat.J The ail 
. #r quality of growing by the union of feparate particles. 
CON 
^-Seeing it is neither a fubftance perfeil, nor inchoate, 
how any other fubftance fhould thence take concrefcence, 
hath not been taught. Raleigh. 
CONCRESSAU'r, or Concorsaut, a town of 
France, in the department of the Cher, on the Saudre, 
almoft ruined by the civil wars: twenty-five miles north 
of Bourges. 
To CONCRE'TE, v. n. [concrefco , Lat.] To coalefce 
into one mafs; to grow by the union and cohefion of 
parts.—When any ialine liquor is evaporated to a cuti¬ 
cle, and let cool, the fait concretes in regular figures; 
which argues that the particles of the fait, before they 
concreted, floated in the liquor at equal diftances. Newton. 
—The blood of fome who died of the plague could not 
be made to concrete, by reafon of the putrefailion begun. 
Arbutknot. 
To CONCRE'TE, v. a. To form by concretion ; ta 
form by the coalition of fcattered particles.—That there 
are in our inferior world divers bodies, that are concreted 
out of others, is beyond all difpute: we fee it in the me¬ 
teors. Hale. 
CON'CRETE, adj. Formed by concretion; formed by 
coalition of leparate particles into one mafs.—The firft 
concrete ftate, or confident furface, of the chaos, muft be 
of the fame figure as the laft liquid ftate. Burnet. —In lo¬ 
gic. Not abltraft: applied to a fubjeft.— Concrete terms, 
while they exprefs the quality, do alfo either exprefs, or 
imply, or refer to, fome fubjeft to which it belongs; as 
white, round, long, broad, wife, mortal, living, dead : 
but thefe are not always noun adjeftives in a gramma¬ 
tical fenfe; for a knave, a fool, a philofopher, and many 
other concretes, are fubftantives, as well as knavery, folly, 
and philofophy, which are the abftraft terms that belong 
to them. Watts. 
CON'CRETE,/ A mafs formed by concretion; or, 
union of various parts adhering to each other.—If gold 
itfelf be admitted, as it muft be, for a porous concrete, 
the proportion of void to body, in the texture of com¬ 
mon air, will be fo much the greater. Bentley. 
CONCRE'TELY, adv. In a manner including the 
fubjeft with the predicate; not abftraftly.—Sin, con- 
fidered not abftraftedly for the mere aft of obliquity, but 
concretely, with fuch a fpecial dependance of it upon the 
will as ferves to render the agent guilty. Norris. 
CONCRE'TENESS,/ Coagulation; colleftion of fluids 
into a folid mals. 
CONCRE'TION,/ The aft of concreting; coalition. 
The mafs formed by a coalition of feparate particles.— 
Heat, in general, doth not refolve and attenuate the juices 
of a human body; for too great heat will produce con¬ 
cretions. Arbuthnot. 
CON'CRETIVE, adj. Having the power to produce 
concretions ; coagulative.—When wood and other bodies 
petrify, we do not aferibe their induration to cold, but 
unto falinous fpirit, or concretise juices. Brown. 
CONCRE'TURE,/ A mafs formed by coagulation. 
To CONCREW', ,s. n. [concrefco, Lat.] To clot to¬ 
gether: 
And his faire lockes, that w'ont with ointment fweet 
To be embaulm’d, and fweat out dainty dew. 
He let to grow, and grifly to concrew. Spenfer. 
CONCU'BIN AGE,/ [concubinage,Fr. concubinatus, Lat.] 
The aft of living with a woman not married.—Adul¬ 
tery was punithed with death by the ancient heathens: 
concubinage was permitted. Broome. 
CON'CUBINE,/. [concubhia, Lat.] A woman kept for 
the purpofes of cohabitation, without legal marriage.— 
He cauled him to paint one of his concubines , Campafpe, 
who had the greateft fliare in bis affeftion. Dryden. 
The wife, though a bright goddefs, thus gives place 
To mortal concubines of frefli embrace. Granville. 
The feventeenth canon of the firft council of Toledo 
declares, that he who, with a faithful wife, keeps a con- 
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