ppl. a. [f. CONCERT v.]
1. Arranged by mutual agreement; agreed upon, pre-arranged; planned, contrived; done in concert.
1716. Addison, Freeholder, No. 6 (Seager). By concerted falsehoods.
1727. De Foe, Syst. Magic, I. vi. 149. These people have certain concerted terms … upon repeating which he [the Devil] is to appear.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxv. The whole was a concerted scheme to depress and degrade every member of the Waverley family.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., II. x. 276. A concerted signal was then made.
2. Mus. Arranged in parts for a number of voices or instruments.
1834. Earl Mount Edgecumbe, Mus. Remin. (ed. 4), p. 124. The inferior singers never joined in any concerted piece.
1864. H. Spencer, Illustr. Univ. Progr., 433. Concerted pieces need interspersing with solos.
