ppl. a. [f. CONGEAL v. + -ED. In 16–17th c. also stressed co·ngeal’d.]
1. Made solid and hard by freezing; frozen.
1432–50. Higden (Rolls), I. 323. Islandia is an yle, hauenge … on the north the see congelede.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 59. The snau is ane congelit rane.
1634. Milton, Comus, 449. That snaky headed Gorgon Shield … Wherewith she freez’d her foes to congeal’d stone.
1854. W. Kelly, trans. Arago’s Astron. (ed. 5), 139. Found … on the shores of the Icy Sea, a great elephant enclosed in a mass of congealed mud.
2. Solidified as if by freezing; † crystallized, petrified: † (of vapor) condensed.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, III. 36. This roche … was lyk a thing of glas … But of what congeled matere Hit was, I niste redely.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Introd. Least the congealed vapour drop thence.
1669. Worlidge, Syst. Agric., xii. § 6 (1681), 246. The congealed drops [of lead] or shot.
17[?]. Berkeley, Cave of Dunmore, Wks. IV. 505. A quantity of this congealed water that … resembles a heap of snow.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 59. Many crystallized minerals are vulgarly called ‘congealed water.’
3. Made into a jelly or viscid substance; curdled, clotted, coagulated.
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helthe (1541), 25 a. Oppilations, or hard congeled matter in the inner partes of the body.
1548. Compl. Scot., vi. 67. To purge congelit [printed congeli] fleume of the lychtis.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., I. ii. 56. Dead Henries wounds Open their congeal’d mouthes, and bleed afresh.
1658. A. Fox, trans. Wurtz’ Surg., III. ix. 242. Congealed bloud settleth to the side.
Hence Congealedness.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., II. I. vii. Especially if they come from the North, the congeledness of this Meteor [hail] bearing upon it the character of that Quarter.
