congealed, ppl. a.
(kənˈdʒiːld)
[f. congeal v. + -ed. In 16–17th c. also stressed ˈcongeal'd.]
1. Made solid and hard by freezing; frozen.
| 1432–50 Higden (Rolls) I. 323 Islandia is an yle, hauenge..on the north the see congelede. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 59 The snau is ane congelit rane. 1634 Milton Comus 449 That snaky headed Gorgon Shield..Wherewith she freez'd her foes to congeal'd stone. 1854 W. Kelly tr. Arago's Astron. (ed. 5) 139 Found..on the shores of the Icy Sea, a great elephant enclosed in a mass of congealed mud. |
2. Solidified as if by freezing; † crystallized, petrified; † (of vapour) condensed.
| c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame iii. 36 This roche..was lyk a thing of glas..But of what congeled matere Hit was, I niste redely. 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Least the congealed vapour drop thence. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. xii. §6 (1681) 246 The congealed drops [of lead] or shot. 17.. Berkeley Cave of Dunmore Wks. IV. 505 A quantity of this congealed water that..resembles a heap of snow. 1878 Huxley Physiogr. 59 Many crystallized minerals are vulgarly called ‘congealed water’. |
3. Made into a jelly or viscid substance; curdled, clotted, coagulated.
| 1533 Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 25 a, Oppilations, or hard congeled matter in the inner partes of the body. 1548 Compl. Scot. vi. 67 To purge congelit [printed congeli] fleume of the lychtis. 1594 Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 56 Dead Henries wounds Open their congeal'd mouthes, and bleed afresh. 1658 A. Fox tr. Wurtz' Surg. iii. ix. 242 Congealed bloud settleth to the side. |
Hence conˈgealedness.
| 1664 H. More Myst. Iniq. ii. i. vii, Especially if they come from the North, the congeledness of this Meteor [hail] bearing upon it the character of that Quarter. |