Also 7 concreate. [f. CONCRETE a., and L. concrēt- ppl. stem of concrēscĕre to grow together; see CONCRESCENCE. With the spelling concreate cf. F. concréer (ad. L. concreāre) used in a kindred sense.]
1. trans. To form by cohesion or coalescence of particles, to form into a mass; to render solid, congeal, coagulate, clot. (Mostly in passive.)
1635. Swan, Spec. M., vi. (1643), 296. The Hard [Bitumen] is more strongly concreted then the other.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep. (1650), 37. The common opinion hath been … that Crystall is nothing else, but Ice or Snow concreated.
1759. trans. Duhamel’s Husb., I. xv. (1762), 77. The juices of the plants are concreted upon the surface.
1784. J. Twamley, Dairying Exempl., 33. Runnet … must have sufficient Time to work, concrete, or congeal the Curd into a solid Mass.
1875. Lyell, Princ. Geol., II. III. xlvii. 556. Ochreous sand, concreted and hardened into a kind of stone.
† b. To unite, combine (attributes, sensations, etc.).
1710. Berkeley, Princ. Hum. Knowl., § 99. Those sensations combined, blended, or (if one may so speak) concreted together.
1751. Harris, Hermes, III. iv. 366, note. To contemplate colour concreted with figure, two attributes which the eye can never view, but associated.
1829. Jas. Mill, Anal. Hum. Mind (1869), I. viii. 263. In which the ideas of synchronous sensations are so concreted by constant conjunction as to appear … only one. Ibid., I. 266. The odour, and colour, and so on, of the rose, concreted into one idea.
2. intr. To run into a mass, form a concretion; to become solid, harden, congeal, ‘set,’ clot.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., III. vii. 286. The Story of the Egyptian Mice which concrete after the recess of Nilus.
1728. Nicholls, in Phil. Trans., XXXV. 406. The arsenical Sulphur concretes into yellow Cubes.
1820. Faraday, Exp. Res., xiii. 38. When condensed again … it concretes in the upper part of the tube.
b. To grow together, combine with.
1853. J. W. Gibbs, Philol. Studies (1857), 56. Primary adjectives … concreting, as it were, with the substantive.
3. trans. To render concrete, rare.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 389. When by incorrigiblenesse Sins be concreted into Sinners, and they become even all one.
1846. Hawthorne, Mosses, Intell. Office, II. v. 86. Without being concreted into an earthly deed.
1888. F. H. Stoddard, in Andover Rev., Oct. Concreting God into actual form of man.
4. co·ncrete. [f. the sb. 3.] a. trans. To treat with concrete. b. intr. To use or apply concrete in building.
1875. Building News, 2 April, 390/2 (article). Concreting.
1882. Daily News, 15 Sept., 6/5. To concrete the foundations.
1885. Du Cane, Punishm. & Prevent. Crime, 180. Pile-driving and concreting for the foundations.
