Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : The fat congealed on the top of the soup. ,Some philosophic systems lost their vitality and congealed. From Dictionary.com.
And, above all, a sense of congealment, of a handsomely branded stasis. From Wordnik.com. [Will somebody please tell David Beckham that it's time to go away?] Reference
He sat back in his chair and folded his arms, staring at his wife while his dinner began its steady decline into congealment. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Bloom] Reference
On the contrary he could, on occasion, summon to his face a congealment and to his eye a steely gleam which nobody admired but which all respected. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
As the latter term indicates, one of the foci of their investigations is the tendency of some systems to head toward congealment or stratification. From Wordnik.com. [Gilles Deleuze] Reference
These are the appearance-congealment, light-diffusion and threshold conceptual minds, often translated as "white appearance," "red increase" and "black near-attainment.". From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session One] Reference
The two phases of the approximating vacuum stage are symbolized by the eclipsing planets Rahu and Kalagni, light-diffusion by the sun, and appearance-congealment by the moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference
We've morphed into a centrist, consensus-based, semiconscious congealment of citizens not even motivated enough to vote in the political elections that decide our collective futures. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Peete: This Election, It's "D��j�� Vu All Over Again"] Reference
Normally, we refer to primordial mind as the clear light mind that arises after the unconscious, most subtle conceptual appearance-making minds of appearance-congealment, light-diffusion and threshold have ceased. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Three] Reference
This quickly passes, in order, through the stages of the threshold, light-diffusion and appearance-congealment unconscious, most subtle conceptual minds and reaches the level of the eighty preconscious, primitive conceptual minds. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Two] Reference
In the stages of dissolution of the levels of mind that make appearances of inherent existence, the approximating vacuum stage is the eclipse of the immediately preceding stages of light-diffusion (red increase) and appearance-congealment (white appearance). From Wordnik.com. [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Abridged Analysis)] Reference
These are the usually unconscious, conceptual appearance-making minds called appearance-congealment, light-diffusion and threshold, which give rise, respectively, to appearances of white moonlit snow, the red glow of sunset or sunrise, and pitch-black darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Two] Reference
These external phenomena that mind gives rise to an appearance of, because of being devoid by nature, arise in our experience on the crest of the three unconscious, most subtle, conceptual appearance-making minds of threshold, light-diffusion and appearance-congealment. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Four] Reference
Sometimes one pushed her neighbour over, and then a wild laugh, which seemed the sole manifestation of their personal life, convulsed them all at once, obliterating, confounding those indefinite, grinning faces in the congealment of a single cluster, scintillating and tremulous. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
In the stages of dissolution of the levels of mind that make appearances of inherent existence, the approximating vacuum stage is the eclipse of the immediately preceding stages of light-diffusion (Tib. mched-pa, red increase) and appearance-congealment (Tib. snang-ba, white appearance). From Wordnik.com. [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference
He belched violently -- an affliction of age, this, its coarseness seeming to correspond to the general thickening induced by the years, a thickening of the tongue as well as the body, a slow congealment of the blood, that had turned Baal at fifty into a figure quite unlike his quick young self. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Thus we can present primordial, simultaneously arising clear light mind as "other-voidness" – it is devoid of everything other, namely it is devoid of all fabricating levels of mind and their mental fabrications, from the three unconscious, most subtle, conceptual appearance-making minds of threshold, light-diffusion and appearance-congealment onwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Three] Reference
But once we have crossed the threshold of having ceased the three unconscious, most subtle conceptual appearance-making levels of mind of appearance-congealment, light-diffusion and threshold, and have manifested the clear light subtlest level of mind, at that point we are beyond the realm of positive or negative and we remain there so long as we maintain that level of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Four] Reference
He seemed coming to life, as if sap were trickling from winter-congealment. From Wordnik.com. [Fran] Reference
Toothpastes will inevitably harden in their tubes or liquify into an unusable congealment. From Wordnik.com. [Brunmarde.com] Reference
For one second she clung to her son, and then, disengaging herself, froze up like the sudden congealment of a spring. From Wordnik.com. [Michael] Reference
Death by processes of congealment must carry an added sting if one had to die in a suit of pink rompers buttoning down the back. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Party] Reference
Moreover, Gnulemah developed rapidly, while Nurse underwent a process of gradual congealment, -- her wits and emotions became torpid. From Wordnik.com. [Idolatry A Romance] Reference
"Well," said I, rising and lighting the gas-logs -- for I was on the very verge of congealment -- "I am sure I am pleased if you like my stories.". From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others] Reference
Thus compressed the mass resumes its equability, and is again at unity with itself, because the fire which was the author of the inequality has retreated; and this departure of the fire is called cooling, and the coming together which follows upon it is termed congealment. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
But if a simple arrest of the action that generates form could constitute matter (are not the original lines drawn by the artist themselves already the fixation and, as it were, congealment of a movement?), a creation of matter would be neither incomprehensible nor inadmissible. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
There is congealment in despair. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
And at thy word throw off congealment. From Wordnik.com. [Cobwebs from a Library Corner] Reference
This process is called cooling and congealment. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
More worthy in congealment to be fix'd. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
In tantra, however, Yama is not simply death itself, but rather there are three levels of Yama, which detail three levels of what is involved with death: outer Yama is death itself, inner Yama is the disturbing emotions and attitudes, which activate karmic aftermath and thus propel us into a subsequent rebirth and perpetuate the birth and death cycle. hidden or secret Yama is the three subtlest conceptual minds that make appearances of true existence: threshold (nyer-thob, near attainment, black appearance), light diffusion (mched, increase, red appearance), and appearance congealment (snang, appearance, white appearance). From Wordnik.com. [The Four Maras (The Four Demonic Forces)] Reference
Her hands white as the lily, with her meandering veins more transparently blue than ever I had seen even her’s, (veins so soon, alas! to be choked up by the congealment of that purple stream, which already so languidly creeps, rather than flows, through them!) her hands hanging lifelessly, one before her, the other grasped by the right-hand of the kind widow, whose tears bedewed the sweet face which her motherly boson supported, though unfelt by the fair sleeper; and either insensibly to the good woman, or what she would not disturb her to wipe off, or to change her posture: her aspect was sweetly calm and serene: and though she started now and then, yet her sleep seemed easy; her breath, indeed short and quick; but tolerably free, and not like that of a dying person. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
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