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verb

Coalesce v. i. (past & past part. coalesced; pres. part. coalescing)

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. "The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations." "Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coalesce" Quotes from Famous Books

... question arises—How do atoms combine so as to form concrete bodies? If they move in straight lines, and with equal rapidity from all eternity, then they can never unite so as to form concrete substances. They can only coalesce by deviating from a straight line.[798] How are they made to deviate from a straight line? This deviation must be introduced arbitrarily, or by some external cause. And inasmuch as Epicurus admits of no causes "but space and matter," and rejects all divine or supernatural interposition, the ...

— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

... It is odd that Mr. Dove Dulcet, of Philadelphia we believe should have been able to find a publisher for this volume. These queer little doggerels have an instinctive affinity for oblivion, and they will soon coalesce with the driftwood of the literary Sargasso Sea. Among many bad things we can hardly remember ever to have seen anything worse ...

— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley

... are two kinds of self-evident truths of perception, though perhaps in the last analysis the two kinds may coalesce. First, there is the kind which simply asserts the existence of the sense-datum, without in any way analysing it. We see a patch of red, and we judge 'there is such-and-such a patch of red', or more strictly 'there is that'; this is one kind of intuitive ...

— The Problems of Philosophy • Bertrand Russell

... sight, that we can scarce think but they appertain to that sense. Again, the ideas of sight enter into the mind several at once, more distinct and unmingled than is usual in the other senses beside the touch. Sounds, for example, perceived at the same instant, are apt to coalesce, if I may so say, into one sound: but we can perceive at the same time great variety of visible objects, very separate and distinct from each other. Now tangible extension being made up of several distinct coexistent parts, we may hence gather another reason that may dispose us to imagine ...

— An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision • George Berkeley

... the Traveller who had lost his clothes; Are there not foes enough to do my books? Relentless trunk-makers and pastry-cooks? Acknowledge not those barbarous allies, The wooden box-men, and the men of pies: For Heav'n's sake, let it ne'er be understood That you, great Censors! coalesce with wood; Nor let your actions contradict your looks, That tell the world you ne'er colleague ...

— Poems (1828) • Thomas Gent

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