past, rapt, concretion, coalesce, inorganic, move past

Unless and until Republicans can coalesce around an alternative, Obamacare is secure from their attacks.

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Italians Coalesce Around an Interim Premier

Italy's political forces were coalescing around the possibility of an emergency government led by Mario Monti, as the country tries to quickly restore political stability.

That the author of the Religio Medici, mounted upon the airy stilts of abstraction, conversant about notional and conjectural essences; in whose categories of Being the possible took the upper hand of the actual; should have overlooked the impertinent individualities of such poor concretions as mankind, is not much to be admired. It is rather to be wondered at, that in the genus of animals he should have condescended to distinguish that species at all. For myself-earth.hound and fettered to the scene of my activities, —

Standing on earth, not rapt above the sky,

inorganic

/ˌɪnɔːˈɡanɪk/

adjective

1. 1.

   not consisting of or deriving from living matter.

   Similar:

   inanimate

   not living

   lifeless

   dead

   defunct

   extinct

   inert

   not natural

   not organic

   mineral

   man-made

   Opposite:

   organic
2. 2.

   CHEMISTRY

   relating to or denoting compounds which are not organic (broadly, compounds not containing carbon).
3. 
   

Like "naturally occurring", the word "inorganic" is part of the definition of a mineral. This word can be confusing. It reminds many people of organic food, but in the science of geology is has a very different meaning. In this case, inorganic means that the object is not alive, and was not a part of anything that was alive.

1. 無生物の；生物としての構造［組織］をもたない
2. 2自然な生長過程を経ていない，人為的な
3. 3《化学》無機（物）の（⇔organic）
4. 4偶有的な，関連しない，異質の
5. 4a《言語学》〈声音・文字が〉語源的でない，偶発的な

past
[形]

1 〈出来事などが〉終わった, 過去の, 昔の（⇔present）

My financial worries are past.
金銭の心配はなくなった.

2 〈時・期間が〉過ぎ去った（ばかりの）, 最近の；（いまから）…前(ago)

in times past
過去に

in the past 10 years
この10年で

during the past week
この1週間の間に

for some time past
ここしばらくの間ずっと

That incident is now three weeks past.
その出来事はもう3週間前のことだ.

▼passの過去分詞passedを形容詞として用いることはできない. ^×The year is passed. とはいわない.

3 任期を終えた, 前［元］の.

4 《文法》〈時制・分詞が〉過去（形）の.

━━[名]

1 ((通例the 〜))過去, 昔（⇔present）

a thing of the past
過去のもの

The origin of language is buried in the past.
言語の起源は過去に埋もれている.

2 （国・物の）歴史；（人の）経歴；((しばしばa 〜))（人の）暗い［恥ずべき］過去；以前に存在した［起こった, なされた］こと, 過去のこと

a woman with a past
いわくのある女

It's all in the past.
((話))それはすべて昔のことだ（忘れよう）.

3 ((通例the 〜))《文法》過去形［時制, 構文］(past tense).

in the past

((完了形とともに用いて))従来, これまで；((過去形とともに用いて))昔, 以前は. ⇒[名]1

━━[副]過ぎて, 通り越して

drive past
車で通り過ぎる.

run ... past a person

…を〈人に〉ちょっと見て［チェックして］もらう；…を〈人に〉相談する, …について〈人から〉許可をもらう.

━━[前]

1 （時間を）過ぎて

at half past six
6時半に

It is past your bedtime.
寝る時間は過ぎていますよ.

2 （場所・位置を）過ぎた所に；（人・物のそばを）通り過ぎて

the store just past the park
公園の少し先の店

I hurried past the policeman.
警官の横を急いで通り過ぎた（▼目的語が省略されてI hurried past. となることもある）.

3 （数・量・年齢・能力・限度・範囲などを）越えて；…以上

be past it
((略式))もう年で…できない

be past belief
信じられない

My grandfather is past ninety.
祖父は90歳を越えている.

get past ...

〈人・場所のそばを〉通り抜ける；((略式))〈人の質問などから〉のがれる.

get past oneself

((略式))腹を立てる；興奮する.

I wouldn't put it past a person

((話))〈人が〉（…する）くらいはやりかねないと思う((to do, that節)).

［PASSの過去分詞形passed 〔pæst | pst〕 ］
rapt (răpt)

v.
Past participle of rap² (sense 1).

adj.

1. Deeply moved or delighted; enraptured: listened to the speaker with rapt admiration.
2. Deeply absorbed; engrossed: was rapt in thought all evening.

[Middle English, carried away, from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere, to seize.]

raptly rapt·ly adv.

WORD HISTORY One might be surprised to learn that rapt, a word used in describing states of deep delight or absorption, has a relative with an entirely different emotive force-rape. Now most often used to mean "to force someone to submit to sexual acts," rape once had a much broader application, as it meant "to seize, carry off." In fact, it was often used in positive and nonviolent contexts. From the Middle English period, we have examples of its being used to mean "to carry off to heaven from earth," as in "the visions of seynt poul wan [when] he was rapt in to paradys." As this quotation shows, rapt started out as the past participle of rape. As time went on, rapt became restricted to mental or emotional states, while rape developed a new past participle, raped, and became limited to criminal or violent acts.

concretion
con·cre·tion (kən-krē'shən)
n.

1. 1. The act or process of concreting into a mass; coalescence.
   2. The state of having been concreted: a concretion of seminal ideas in her treatise.
2. A solid hard mass.
3. Geology. A rounded mass of mineral matter found in sedimentary rock.
4. Pathology. A solid mass, usually composed of inorganic material, formed in a cavity or tissue of the body; a calculus.

concretionary con·cre'tion·ar'y (-shə-nĕr'ē) adj.

n. - 凝固, 結石, 凝固物

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 凝結, 凝固物, 具体化

coalesce
(kō'ə-lĕs')
intr.v., -lesced, -lesc·ing, -lesc·es.

1. To grow together; fuse.
2. To come together so as to form one whole; unite: The rebel units coalesced into one army to fight the invaders. See synonyms at mix.

[Latin coalēscere : co-, co- + alēscere, to grow, inchoative of alere, to nourish.]

coalescence co'a·les'cence n.
coalescent co'a·les'cent adj.

coalesce[co・a・lesce]

• 発音記号[kòuəlés]

[動](自)((形式))

1 （…と）合体する((with ...))；合体して（…に）なる((into ...))；〈傷口などが〉癒着(ゆちゃく)する

coalesce into one
合体して1つになる.

2 〈党・グループなどが〉合併して（…に）なる((into ...))；（…と）連合する((with ...))；〈諸概念などが〉融合する.

［ラテン語coalēscere （co-共に＋alere養う＋-ESCE＝共に養うようになる→合体する）. △COALITION］