Meaning

(intransitive) To come together at a common centre..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To come together at a common centre.
2. (intransitive) To coincide.
3. (transitive) To bring together at a common centre.
4. (transitive) To focus.
5. (transitive) To condense, to concentrate.

Example Sentences

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.

Hence, […] whatsoever perfections or properties (except such as are purely personal) are attributed to any of these divine Persons, are the same in all, and may equally be attributed to every one; they being all and every one the same God, in whom all perfections concentre, or, rather, who is all perfection itself.

[T]he medulla oblongata, wherein it was generally agreed by Dutch anatomiſts, that all the minute nerves from all the organs of the ſeven ſenſes concentered, like ſtreets and winding alleys, into a ſquare.

Capt. Lewis walked on Shore above this Creek and discovered a high moun from the top of which he had an extensive view, 3 paths Concentering at the moun

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

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.

[T]hir bright officious Lamps, / Light above Light, for thee alone, as ſeems, / In thee concentring all thir precious beams / Of ſacred influence: […]

Whatever has diſtinguiſhed the hero; whatever has elevated the wit; whatever has endeared the lover, are all concentered in Mr Frolick; whoſe life has, for ſeven years, been a regular interchange of intrigues, dangers, waggeries; […]

Word Forms

• concentres
• concentring
• concentred
• concenter

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