Definitions for congeal
kənˈdʒilcon·geal

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. jell, set, congealverb

   become gelatinous

   "the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. congealverb

   To change from a liquid to solid state perhaps by cold

2. congealverb

   To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid as gel or jelly

3. congealverb

   To make rigid or immobile

4. congealverb

   To become congealed, solidify

5. Etymology: congelen, from congeler, from congelare, cognate with congelar.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To CONGEALverb

   Etymology: congelo, Latin.

   1. To turn, by frost, from a fluid to a solid state.

   What more miraculous thing may be told,
   Than ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold,
   Should kindle fire by wonderful device? Edmund Spenser.

   In whose capacious womb
   A vapoury deluge lies, to snow congealed. James Thomson, Winter.

   2. To bind or fix, as by cold.

   Oh, gentlemen, see! see, dead Henry’s wounds
   Open their congeal’d mouths, and bleed afresh. William Shakespeare, R. III.

   Too much sadness hath congeal’d your blood. William Shakespeare.

2. To Congealverb

   To concrete; to gather into a mass by cold.

   When water congeals, the surface of the ice is smooth and level, as the surface of the water was before. Thomas Burnet, Theory.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. congeal

   Congelation (from Latin: congelātiō, lit. 'freezing, congealing') was a term used in medieval and early modern alchemy for the process known today as crystallization.In the Secreta alchymiae ('The Secret of Alchemy') attributed to Khalid ibn Yazid (c. 668–704 or 709), it is one of "the four principal operations", along with Solution, Albification ('whitening'), and Rubification ('reddening').It was one of the twelve alchemical operations involved in the creation of the philosophers' stone as described by Sir George Ripley (c. 1415–1490) in his Compound of Alchymy, as well as by Antoine-Joseph Pernety in his Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique (1758).

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Congealverb

   to change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze

2. Congealverb

   to affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill

3. Congealverb

   to grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Congeal

   kon-jēl′, v.t. to freeze: to change from fluid to solid by cold: to solidify, as by cold.—v.i. to pass from fluid to solid, as by cold: to stiffen: to coagulate.—adj. Congeal′able.—ns. Congeal′ableness; Congeal′ment, Congelā′tion, act or process of congealing: anything congealed. [L. congelāre, from con, and gelu, frost.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of congeal in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of congeal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=congeal
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Congeal
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=congeal
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congeal
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/congeal
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=congeal