Verily, a concrescence looms... not a good thing, not a bad thing. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
"Translocate fifteen degrees sub-axial to hemispherical concrescence of poly-carbon interface.". From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
A few moments later you reached concrescence, the point where the resonation of you and the universe was precise enough to supply the energy for a local collapse. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
Why, for instance, should the blastopore so often appear as a long slit, closing by concrescence, unless this had been the original method of its formation in remote Coelenterate ancestors?. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
For Whitehead, everything in the world is a “concrescence of prehensions,” prehensions being the grasping or feeling of one thing by another in their on-going relations of becoming (1997, 47). From Wordnik.com. [Intersections Between Pragmatist and Continental Feminism] Reference
But when most UU ministers, seminarians, and theologically curious laypeople like me talk about a theological crisis in Unitarian Universalism, we aren't worried about hermeneutics, phenomenology, or the phases of concrescence. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: September 2006 Archives] Reference
Apart from this, botanists are generally agreed that the concrescence of parts of the flower-whorls -- in the gynaeceum as the seed-covering, and in the corolla as the seat of attraction, more than in the androecium and the calyx -- is an indication of advance, as is also the concrescence that gives the condition of epigyny. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
Whitehead makes the unfortunate move of describing objects as a concrescence of prehensions. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
(called its concrescence) and to its effects on subsequent actual entities (called transitional creativity) (Whitehead 1978, 211). From Wordnik.com. [Process Theism] Reference
Harvey thought that impregnation influenced the female organism as a contagion; and that the blood, which he conceived to be the first rudiment of the germ, arose in the clear fluid of the "colliquamentum" of the ovum by a process of concrescence, as a sort of living precipitate. From Wordnik.com. [Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02] Reference
With time acceleration and the concrescence of novelty becoming more apparent to individuals, and as more individuals begin to open to awareness and the increased photon field that we seem to be moving through, we realize that our minds alone cannot keep up with the evolutionary changes. From Wordnik.com. [Red Ice Creations] Reference
"law of symmetry" according to which the embryo is formed by the union of its two symmetrical halves -- a law which recalls the "concrescence theory" of His and some modern embryologists. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Take any English drama written before his, and you will find that the several parts do not stand or draw together in any thing like organic consistency: the work is not truly a concrescence of persons and events, but only, at the best, a mere succession or aggregation of them; so that, for the most part, each would both be and appear just as it does, if detached from the others, and viewed by itself. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters]
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