Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To join fitly or becomingly together; make well connected; choose and compose suitably.
- To clear; purify.
- Fit; apt; suitable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To place fitly together; to
adapt ; toclear .
Etymologies
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Latin concinnatus, past participle of concinnare ("to concinnate"). See concinnity.
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Examples
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His massive discourses, based on God's word, were a solid pile of concinnate argument, illuminated with the divine light, and glowing with the divine love shed abroad in his heart.
Recollections of a Long Life Cuyler, Theodore L 1902
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Each one has his place to fill and his part to do, and the consequence is a concinnate whole.
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But first an explanation to concinnate my narrative.
The Holy Cross and Other Tales Eugene Field 1872
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Each one has his place to fill and his part to do, and the consequence is a concinnate whole.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac Eugene Field 1872
hernesheir commented on the word concinnate
concinnous
October 29, 2012