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Concretion

noun
1.
The formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys).
2.
A hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body.  Synonym: calculus.
3.
An increase in the density of something.  Synonyms: compaction, compression, densification.
4.
The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts.  Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, conglutination.





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"Concretion" Quotes from Famous Books



... consists in this: in being alive to what is going on around one; in living actually; in giving voice to the thought of humanity; in saying to one's fellows what they want to hear or need to hear at that moment; in being the concretion, the result, of the influences of the present world. In no other way can one affect the world than in responding thus to its needs, in embodying thus its ideas. You will see, in looking to history, that all great men have been a piece of their time; take them out and set them elsewhere, they will ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various
... allowed to pass over them. In some places you see remnants of this ancient pavement, but for the most part it has been ground into dust under the wheels of the carts and carriages, introduced by the new inhabitants. The old houses, built of a kind of stone which is seemingly a pure concretion of small shells, overhang the streets with their wooden balconies, and the gardens between the houses are fenced on the side of the street with high walls of stone. Peeping over these walls you see branches of the pomegranate and of the orange-tree, now fragrant with flowers, ...
— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant


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