Obs. [f. L. concordia CONCORD: see -IUM.] The name given to the home of a socialistic community founded at Ham in Surrey in 1843. Hence Concordian a.
1841–3. New Age, 6 May (1843), 7/2. In 1841, the idea of founding an Industrial Harmonic Educational College, for the benefit of such parties as were ready to leave the ignorant selfish strife of the antagonistic world, was expressed in a tract, entitled, ‘A Prospectus for establishing a Concordium.’ Ibid., 8/1. Its members … are … denominated Concordists, and the place of their residence a Concordium.
1880. T. Frost, Forty Years Recoll., 50. After my visit to the Concordium I indulged the idea that … I might associate with myself some twelve or fifteen persons of both sexes, who might aid me in establishing a communitorium on the basis of the ethical and economic principles promulgated by Owen.
1844. New Age, May, 221. A new society has been formed which is named ‘The Universal Concordian Society,’ whose central office is at the Concordium.
