The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concenter \Con*cen"ter\, Concentre \Con*cen"tre\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Concentered or Concentred; p. pr & vb. n. Concenteringor Concentring.] [F. concentrer, fr. L. con- + centrum center. See Center, and cf. Concentrate] To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center.
God, in whom all perfections concenter.
--Bp.
Beveridge.
Concenter \Con*cen"ter\, Concentre \Con*cen"tre\, v. t. To draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate.
In thee concentering all their precious beams.
--Milton.
All is concentered in a life intense.
--Byren.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive rare English) To come together at a common centre. 2 (context transitive rare English) To bring together at a common centre. 3 (context transitive rare English) To condense, to concentrate.
WordNet
Usage examples of "concentre".
If those who hold the common doctrine of a carnal resurrection should carry it out with philosophical consistency, by extending the scheme it involves to all existing planetary races as well as to their own, should they cause that process of imagination which produced this doctrine to go on to its legitimate completion, they would see in the final consummation the sundered earths approach each other, and firmaments conglobe, till at last the whole universe concentred in one orb.
The unhappy culprit sustained herself as best a woman might, under the heavy weight of a thousand unrelenting eyes, all fastened upon her, and concentred at her bosom.
For an instant the gaze of the horror-stricken multitude was concentred on the ghastly miracle.
And it was not her shadow she had seen, but the shadow, rather, of a great peace that rested concentred upon him as he bowed over his last, his mind fixed indeed upon his work, but far more occupied with the affairs of quite another region.
Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured and unsung.
For by this time he had artfully concentred and kindled up all the inflammable ingredients of her constitution.
We are concentred here: they lie a-spread, Which shrinks them to two-hundred-thousand power:-- Though that the urgency of victory Is absolute, I admit.
If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark.
Good management and good luck had so disposed it that the allied bands, concentring from points more than a thousand miles distant, reached the rendezvous on the same day.
Terrestrial Heav'n, danc't round by other Heav'ns That shine, yet bear thir bright officious Lamps, Light above Light, for thee alone, as seems, In thee concentring all thir precious beams Of sacred influence: As God in Heav'n Is Center, yet extends to all, so thou Centring receav'st from all those Orbs.
Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other Heavens That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps, Light above light, for thee alone, as seems, In thee concentring all their precious beams Of sacred influence!
He is then the Sun, one point concentring Space, as also is any other star.