† conˈgredient, a. and n. 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. n. A component part, ingredient.
| 1767 Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) IX. xxxiii. 281 All the parts thereof,—the congredients,—the preparations,—the instruments. |