concenter

Verb

concentre (third-person singular simple present concentres, present participle concentring, simple past and past participle concentred)

1. (UK, dated, intransitive) To come together at a common centre.
   • As from each angle of the Vault / Wherein thou lyeſt, a line is brought / Vnto the Kingly founders heart; / So vnto thee, from euery part, / See how our loues doe runne by line, / And dead, concenter in thy Shrine.1613, Henry Peacham, “To the Buried Prince” in The Period of Mourning, London: John Helme, signature D2, recto

   Synonyms:

   converge

2. (UK, dated, intransitive) To coincide.
   • Are we not ſufficiently Brutes, to call that work brutiſh which begets us? […] All Opinions concenter in this, […]1686, Charles Cotton (translator), Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne, London: T. Basset et al., Book 3, Chapter 5, page 156
3. (UK, dated, transitive) To bring together at a common centre.
   • For one ſo rarely tun’d to fit all parts; / For one to whom eſpous’d are all the Arts; / Long have I ſought for: but co’d never ſee / Them all concenter’d in one man, but Thee.1648, Robert Herrick, “To the Most Accomplisht Gentleman, Master Edward Norgate, Clark of the Signet to His Majesty. Epig[ram].”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […]...
4. (UK, dated, transitive) To focus.
   • For an instant the gaze of the horror-stricken multitude was concentred on the ghastly miracle; […]1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 311
5. (UK, dated, transitive) To condense, to concentrate.
   • Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native land! […] The wretch, concentered 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.1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fifth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC...