VERB
- bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
How To Use concenter In A Sentence
- Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable, in order, amid so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions, to concenter my thoughts; to ballast my conduct; to preserve me from being blown about by every wind of fashionable doctrine. I. On Conciliation with America
- All these tremendous results concenter upon the single condition of being holy. Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M.
- Perhaps they were apprehensive, lest a science which concentered the force of argument, might obstruct the cultivation of that which was meant to dilate it. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
- He pressed the second button in the row and the bright light concentered at a particular place on the concrete wall, illuminating, in a row, a clock, a barometer, and centigrade and Fahrenheit thermometers. CHAPTER I
- As his imagination was fired with the first conception of this design, he caught her to his breast with a fury, in which all the passions in all their rage were at once concentered: 'Let the priest,' said he, 'instantly unite us. Almoran and Hamet
- His learned and pious works, (wherein all the excellencies of the primitive and ancient fathers seem to concenter) are a commentary on the Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
- “The wretch, concentered all in self,” wrote Sir Walter Scott in 1805, might get “power and pelf” but would wind up “unwept, unhonored and unsung.” No Uncertain Terms
- Judas, the apostacy of Julian, and the cruelty of Nero, did all concenter in him. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
- It is certain he had a way of bringing it into less form for the many sudden causes he had to do with in the streets; but how he contrived to correct, sweeten, concenter, and qualify it -- I vex not my spirit with the inquiry. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English
- All the shames, sorrows, and sufferings of France were concentered on his head. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847