(see the vb.), ppl. a. [f. CONCENTRATE v. + -ED1.]
1. Brought to or towards a common center or focus; collected or massed as round a center; brought together into smaller space or volume.
a. 1691. Boyle, Wks., III. 572 (R.). The concentrated beams of the sun made the aurum fulminans go off.
1840. Napier, Penins. War, XIV. viii. The parcelling of an army before a concentrated enemy.
1866. G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., xxiv. (1878), 425. After the concentrated duties of the Sunday.
fig. 1788. Gibbon, Decl. & F., lii. (Seager). The flame of enthusiasm … burnt with concentrated heat in [their] breasts.
1886. Morley, Ht. Martineau, Crit. M. III. 200. She was … full of vivid and concentrated interest in men and their doings.
b. Having the faculties collected and directed to one object.
1821. Byron, Juan, III. xlviii. Then calm, concentrated, and still, and slow, He lay coil’d like the boa in the wood.
2. Chem. Of liquids and solutions: Condensed by contraction of volume, with proportional increase of strength.
1689. [see CONCENTRATE v. 3].
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 152. French leys were always used in a more concentrated form than our own.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, Goethe,, Wks. (Bohn), I. 386. Hundreds of post-captains, with transit-telescope … and concentrated soup and pemmican.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Concentrated Milk, solidified milk prepared to keep without spoiling.
fig. 1855. Brimley, Ess., Tennyson, 22. To call it the concentrated essence of Byron’s Gulnares, Zuleikas, et id genus omne.
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., IV. V. xx. § 34. 379. This kind of concentrated writing needs so much solution before the reader can fairly get the good of it.
3. Pathol. Concentrated pulse [F. pouls concentré]: a small pulse. (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1882.)
Hence Concentratedness, concentrated quality.
1887. A. C. Benson, Abp. Laud, 200. He rather owed his strength to his concentratedness.
