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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONGEAL, v.t. [L., to freeze, has the elements of cool, but it may be a different word.]
1. To change from a fluid to a solid sate, as by cold, or a loss of heat, as water in freezing, liquid metal or wax in cooling, blood in stagnating or cooling, etc.; to harden into ice, or into a substance of less solidity. Cold congeals water into ice, or vapor into hoar frost or snow, and blood into a less solid mass, or clot.
2. To bind or fix with cold. Applied to the circulating blood, it does not signify absolutely to harden, but to cause a sensation of cold, a shivering, or a receding of the blood from the extremities; as, the frightful scene congealed his blood.
CONGEAL, v.i. To grow hard, stiff or thick; to pass from a fluid to a solid state; to concrete into a solid mass. Melted lead congelas; water congeals; blood congeals.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: become gelatinous; "the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme" [syn: jell, set, congeal]

Merriam Webster's

verb Etymology: Middle English congelen, from Middle French congeler, from Latin congelare, from com- + gelare to freeze — more at cold Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold 2. to make viscid or curdled ; coagulate 3. to make rigid, fixed, or immobile intransitive verb to become congealed ; solidify • congealment noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. 1 make or become semi-solid by cooling. 2 (of blood etc.) coagulate. Derivatives: congealable adj. congealment n. Etymology: ME f. OF congeler f. L congelare (as com-, gelare f. gelu frost)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Congeal Con*geal", 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. Lest zeal, now melted . . . Cool and congeal again to what it was. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Congeal Con*geal", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Congealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Congealing.] [F. congeler, L. congelare, -gelatumn; con- + gelare to freeze, gelu frost. See Gelid.] 1. To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze. A vapory deluge lies to snow congealed. --Thomson. 2. 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. --Stirling.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(congeals, congealing, congealed) When a liquid congeals, it becomes very thick and sticky and almost solid. The blood had started to congeal. ...spilled wine mingled with congealed soup. VERB: V, V-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Freeze, turn or convert to ice. II. v. n. Freeze, be or become frozen, turn or be converted into ice.

Moby Thesaurus

adhere, agglomerate, blast, blast-freeze, blight, bunch, cake, chill, clabber, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, cohere, concrete, conglomerate, cool, curd, curdle, dry, embrace, freeze, freeze solid, freeze to, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, glaciate, glacify, grasp, grow together, hang on, hang together, hold, hold on, hold together, hug, ice, incrassate, indurate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knot, lopper, lump, mass, nip, persist, quick-freeze, refreeze, regelate, set, solidify, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, take hold of, thick, thicken