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verb

Congeal v. t. (past & past part. congealed; pres. part. congealing)

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

Synonyms: jell, set. "A vapory deluge lies to snow congealed."

To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill. "As if with horror to congeal his blood."

Congeal v. i. 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.

Synonyms: jell, set. "Lest zeal, now melted... Cool and congeal again to what it was."

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"Congeal" Quotes from Famous Books

... and waited. A man in such a condition measures the amount of cold which his meat may possibly endure against the future coming of the potatoes, till he falls utterly to the ground between two stools. So was it now with Dr Slumpy. He gave one last sigh as he saw the gravy congeal upon his plate, but, nevertheless, he had finished the unpalatable food before Grandairs had ...

— Miss Mackenzie • Anthony Trollope

... these extremes, which would either congeal our earth into a mass of ice or burn it up into a heap of cinders, is therefore the most congenial to such beings as ourselves. Whence ...

— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien

... congeal water or any fluid. Thus sea-water freezes at 28 deg. 5' Fah.; fresh water at 32 deg.; mercury at 39 deg. 5' below zero. All fluids change their degree of freezing in accordance with mixtures of alcohol or solutions of salt used for the purpose. Also, according to the atmospheric ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... dew and the occurrence of hoarfrost on the foliage of grasses and other small vegetables, and on other objects of similar form and consistence, when the temperature of the air a few feet above has not been brought down to the dew-point, still less to 32 degrees, the degree of cold required to congeal dew to frost. [Footnote: The leaves and twigs of plants may be reduced by radiation to a temperature lower than that of the ambient atmosphere, and even be frozen when the air in contact with them is above 32 degrees. Their temperature may be ...

— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

... and caught his blood in a bowl, and he gave it to him who mixed it upon the fourth platform of the Sanctuary, that it might not congeal. He took the censer, and went up to the top of the altar, and raked the live coals here and there, and gathered out from the inner embers. And went down and placed it upon the fourth ...

— Hebrew Literature

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