concursion

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English

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Etymology

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From French concours, from Latin concursus, from concurrere (to run together). See concur.

Noun

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concursion (countable and uncountable, plural concursions)

  1. (archaic) A sudden solidification.
    • 1845, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe:
      For the Epicureans were forced to imagine so many and such various concursions of individual corpuscules in the immensity of space, so great a multitude of pre-existing orders of things before the present, and other similar delusions here enumerated []