CONCENTRICATE VERB to concentrate ...1647 obs. ETYMOLOGY from concentric (adj.) + -ate; possibly an alteration of concentrate (vb.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1647 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Here you have a time prefixed, and must of necessity concentricate your self and your best resolution; elsewhere Nature is unwilling to find a Suspension, abhorring its own Destruction..." From: An Impartial Account of the Arraignment Trial & Condemnation of Thomas late Earl of Strafford, and Lord Lievtanant of Ireland before the Parliament at Wesminster, Anno Dom, 1641 In A Letter to a Friend - Thomas Wen
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