1 coalescere
[CL], coalere
1 to coalesce, grow together, merge; b (of abstractions).
~uissent, suornadun
[GlC C 591] (cf. [ib. 672]: †coagolescit, conglutinat
); s901 Northanhimbros, qui cum Danis jam in unam gentem ~uerant
[W. Malm. GR II 125]; [Id. GP V 189 (v. 2 conventus 3a)]; 1159 solent pigmentarii diversas species commiscere ut, cum in nove speciei saporem et efficaciam ~uerint, universa dulcescant
[J. Sal. Ep. 60 (110)]; [H. Bos. Thom. III 3 (v. 2 infra)]; sicut rami a stipite precisi per se non ~escunt
[Gir. TH III 53]; to growe, adolere, ~ere (3º conjugationis), ‥ ~escere
[CathA]. b 1169 [ (v. concisio 2)]; concepciones ‥, si inter theologos libera licencia ~escant
[Lutterell Occam 1].
2 (trans.) to nourish, foster.
8‥ populus iste pullulet ~itus benedictione aeternitatis
[(Pontifical) Rec. Coronation 7]; concaluit cor, et sensim cepit ignis exardescere, quo novus ‥ homo fotus et ~itus cepit paullatim ~escere
[H. Bos. Thom. III 3]; to nuryche, ‥ alumpnare, ~ere, ~escere
[CathA].
2 coalescere
v. occalescere
3 coalescere
v. squalescere