a. and sb. Obs. [ad. L. congredient-em, pr. pple. of congredī to come together, meet.] A. adj. ‘Meeting or going together’ (R. C., Table Alph., 1613). B. sb. A component part, ingredient.
1767. Sterne, Tr. Shandy (1802), IX. xxxiii. 281. All the parts thereof,—the congredients,—the preparations,—the instruments.
