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Concretion

noun
1.
The formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys).
2.
A hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body.  Synonym: calculus.
3.
An increase in the density of something.  Synonyms: compaction, compression, densification.
4.
The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts.  Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, conglutination.





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"Concretion" Quotes from Famous Books



... readers to suppose that De Brosses, in his speculations, was looking for the origin of religion; but, in reality, his work is a mere attempt to explain a certain element in ancient religion and mythology. De Brosses was well aware that heathen religions were a complex mass, a concretion of many materials. He admits the existence of regard for the spirits of the dead as one factor, he gives Sabaeism a place as another. But what chiefly puzzles him, and what he chiefly tries to explain, is the worship of odds and ends of rubbish, and the adoration ...
— Custom and Myth • Andrew Lang
... originated in Alexandria at the beginning of the 3rd century, which resolved the absolute, or God, into the incarnation thereof in the Logos, or reason of man, and which aimed at "demonstrating the graduated transition from the absolute object to the personality of man"; it was a concretion of European ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


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