Also ME. congele-. [f. CONGEAL v. + -MENT. Congelement was perh. in OF. or AF.]
1. The act of congealing and of being congealed.
c. 1400. Test. Love, II. xi. After congelement a margarite with endles vertue … was … given to every creture.
1763. Brit. Mag., IV. 64. The corrosive oil which is to be poured off after its congealment.
1814. Cary, Dante (Chandos), 99. A shade More worthy in congealment to be fix’d.
2. concr. Anything congealed; a congealed mass.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., IV. viii. 10. Whil’st they with ioyfull teares Wash the congealement from your wounds.
1641. Milton, Reform., I. (1851), 11. Those Gifts … settling in a skinny congealment of ease and sloth at the top.
