conceiver (konsever)

One who conceives. Though hereof prudent symbols and pious allegories be made by wiser conceivers, yet common heads will fly unto superstitious applications. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. concelebratet (kon-sel'e-brāt), v. t. [L. con celeb ratus, pp. of con celeb rare (> F. concélebrer = Sp. Pg. concelebrar ), celebrate together, Wherein the wives of Amnites solemnly Concelebrate their high feasts Bac chan all. Holland , tr. of Camden, ii. 231. concentt (kon-sent'), n. [L. concentus, harmony, concentus , sing together, com-, together, + canere , sing: see cant2 , chant .] 1. Concert; concord, especially of sounds; harmony. Your music Is your true rapture: when there is concent In face, in voice, and clothes. B. Jonson, Volpone, iii. 2. Milton, Solemn Music, 1. 6. That undisturbed song of pure concent. [ Employing the word con centralization to expre the degree of the drawing together as we come back toward the center from an outward position, we may say that concen tralization proceeds inversely as the squares of the distances. Poe , Eureka. concentrate (kon-sen'trāt or kon's en-trāt), v.; pret. and pp. concentrated, ppr. concentrating. [ He hastily concentrated his whole force at his own camp. Motley. Love and all the pa ions concentrate all existence around a single form. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 320. Cologne Cathedral, the last of the great med iæval works, remained unfinished while the whole energies of Europe were concentrated upon the church of St. Peter at Rome. Lecky, Rationalism, I. 265. Hence-2. To intensify the action of, as by bringing it to bear upon one point; render more intense the properties of, as by removing foreign weakening or adulterating elements; specifically, in chem., to render more intense or pure by removing or reducing the proportion of what is foreign or ine ential; rectify. Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength. Arbuthnot , Aliments. 3. In mining , to separate (ore or metal) from the gangue or rock with which it is a ociated in the lode. See dre , 5 ( e ). II. in trans. 1. To approach or meet in or around a common point or center: as, the clouds rapidly concentrated in a dense ma .2. To become more intense or pure. See I., 2. concentrate (kon-sen'trāt or kon's en-trat), a. and n. [ concent ratus : see the verb.] I. a. Reduced to a pure or intense state; concentrated. II. n. That which has been reduced to a state of purity or concentration by the removal of foreign, non-e ential, or diluting matter. This sand, before going to waste, was treated on a concentrator; and from the product or concentrate the greater part of escaped gold could have been extracted by chlorine. Science, V. 419. concentrated (kon-sen'tra-ted or kon's entra-ted), p . a. [Pp. of concentrate, v.] 1. Brought to a common point or center.- 2. Increased in strength or purity by concentration: as, a concentrated solution of morphia; concen concentrated trated sulphuric acid.-3. In pathol., applied to the pulse when there is a contracted condition of the artery.-4. In zoöl., brought together in one region of the body, and more or le combined: said of organs and parts. Thus, the limbs and nervous ganglia in the myriapods are distributed over all the segments, but in the insects they are principally concentrated in the head and thorax. This concentration is characteristic of the higher grades of development. Concentrated alum. See alum. concentration (kon-sen-tra's hon), n. [= F. concentration = Sp.con centra cion = Pg. concen tração = It. concentrazione, It is customary to talk of a Platonic philosophy as a coherent whole, that may be gathered by concentration from his disjointed dialogues. De Quincey , Plato. Abroad it [the recovered strength of the monarchic system] resulted from the concentration of great territorial po e ions in the hands of a few great kings. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 299. (b) Specifically, the voluntary continuous direction of thought upon an object; close attention. The evidence of superior genius is the power of intellectual concentration . B. R. Haydon. The word "Attention" in its commoner meaning, as a 1162 Concentric arcs, bundle, engine, etc. See the nouns. Concentric structure, in mineral., an arrangement of parallel layers around a common center, as in agate. Concentric Structure, in polished agate. conceptional organ or a cavity which incloses reproductive bodies, usually spores, with or without special spore-cases: applied without reference to the origin of the spores, whether sexual or asexual. In Sphærioideæ (of Fungi imperfect i ) the conidial spores are borne on short threads within conceptacles; in pyrenomycetous fungi the conceptacle (perithecium) contains spores in asci (thecæ); in Florideæ (red algæ) either cystocarpic spores or tetraspores may be contained in conceptacles; in Fucaceæ (rock-weeds, etc.) antheridia containing antherozoides, and oögonia containing oöspores, are formed in conceptacles. The sporangium, as of ferns, was formerly included under this term, but it is now rarely used in that sense. Also conceptaculum.