concentred, -tered, ppl. a.
(kənˈsɛntəd)
[f. prec. + -ed.]
† 1. Placed or seated in the centre. Obs. rare.
| 1632 Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 82 The concentred point of his heart. |
2. Brought to a common centre; concentrated.
| 1641 J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 84 Yet, more fit and concenter [? read concenter'd], is that aculeate speech of Chrys[ostom] when Eudoxia the Empresse raged against him, like a Lyonesse. 1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 62 A mineral..may have its parts so concentred. 1707 Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 33 Each Grain..contains in itself..the little concenter'd Plant. 1796 Bp. Watson Apol. Bible 347 The concentered essence of all ethics. 1855 Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) V. ix. viii. 427 The concentred hatred and bigotry which was the soul of the enterprise. |
3. fig. Of the mental faculties: Directed to a single point or object. Said also of persons.
| 1817 Coleridge Biog. Lit. II. xxii. 136 The excitement arising from concentered attention. 1820 Byron Mar. Fal. ii. ii. 65 There exists Oft in concentred spirits not less daring Than in more loud avengers. 1868 Milman St. Paul's x. 246 Christian resolution in its concentered majesty. |
4. Pathol. = concentrated 3.
| 1758 J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 313 An universal Cold; which subsisted three Days, with a concentered Pulse. |