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CONCENTER, v.i. [Gr., a goad, a sharp point, a center; to prick or goad. The primary sense is a point.] To come to a point, or to meet in a common center; used of converging lines, or other things that meet in a point.

All these are like so many lines drawn from several objets, that in some way relate to him, and concenter in him.

CONCENTER, v.t. To draw, or direct to a common center; to bring to a point; as two or more lines or other things.

The having a part less to animate, will serve to concenter the spirits, and make them more active in the rest.


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CONCENTER, v.i. [Gr., a goad, a sharp point, a center; to prick or goad. The primary sense is a point.] To come to a point, or to meet in a common center; used of converging lines, or other things that meet in a point.

All these are like so many lines drawn from several objets, that in some way relate to him, and concenter in him.

CONCENTER, v.t. To draw, or direct to a common center; to bring to a point; as two or more lines or other things.

The having a part less to animate, will serve to concenter the spirits, and make them more active in the rest.

CON-CEN'TER, v.i. [Fr. concentrer; It. concentrare; Sp. and Port. concentrar; con and L. centrum, a center; Gr. κεντρον, a goad, a sharp point, a center; κεντεω, to prick or goad. The primary sense is a point.]

To come to a point, or to meet in a common center; used of converging lines, or other things that meet in a point. All these are like so many lines drawn from several objects, that in some way relate to him, and concenter in him. – Hale.


CON-CEN'TER, v.t.

To draw or direct to a common center; to bring to a point; as, two or more lines or other things. The having a part less to animate, will serve to concenter the spirits, and make them more active in the rest. Decay of Piety.


Con*cen"ter
  1. To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center.

    God, in whom all perfections concenter.
    Bp. Beveridge.

  2. To draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate.

    In thee concentering all their precious beams.
    Milton.

    All is concentered in a life intense.
    Byren.

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Concenter

CONCENTER, verb intransitive [Gr., a goad, a sharp point, a center; to prick or goad. The primary sense is a point.] To come to a point, or to meet in a common center; used of converging lines, or other things that meet in a point.

All these are like so many lines drawn from several objets, that in some way relate to him, and concenter in him.

CONCENTER, verb transitive To draw, or direct to a common center; to bring to a point; as two or more lines or other things.

The having a part less to animate, will serve to concenter the spirits, and make them more active in the rest.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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P`ARTICLE, n. [L. particula, from pars, part.]

1. A minute part or portion of matter; as a particle of sand, of lime or of light.

2. In physics, a minute part of a body, an aggregation or collection of which constitutes the whole body or mass. The word is sometimes used in the same sense as atom, in the ancient Epicurean philosophy, and corpuscle in the latter. In this sense, particles are the elements or constituent parts of bodies.

3. Any very small portion or part; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue; he would not resign a particle of his property.

4. In the Latin church, a crumb or little piece of consecrated bread.

5. In grammar, a word that is not varied or inflected; as a preposition.

Organic particles, very minute moving bodies,perceptible only by the help of the microscope, discovered in the semen of animals.

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