ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
† 1. Placed or seated in the center. Obs. rare.
1632. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Eromena, 82. The concentred point of his heart.
2. Brought to a common center; concentrated.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., I. 84. Yet, more fit and concenter [? read concenter’dj, is that aculeate speech of Chrys[ostom] when Eudoxia the Empresse raged against him, like a Lyonesse.
1670. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Ess., 62. A mineral … may have its parts so concentred.
1707. Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 33. Each Grain … contains in itself … the little concenter’d Plant.
1796. Bp. Watson, Apol. Bible, 347. The concentered essence of all ethics.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), V. IX. viii. 427. The concentred hatred and bigotry which was the soul of the enterprise.
3. fig. Of the mental faculties: Directed to a single point or object. Said also of persons.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., II. xxii. 136. The excitement arising from concentered attention.
1820. Byron, Mar. Fal., II. ii. 65 There exists Oft in concentred spirits not less daring Than in more loud avengers.
1868. Milman, St. Paul’s, x. 246. Christian resolution in its concentered majesty.
4. Pathol. = CONCENTRATED 3.
1758. J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 313. An universal Cold; which subsisted three Days, with a concentered Pulse.
