concursion

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noun

A sudden solidification.

OriginFrench concours ← Latin concursus →
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Meanings

nounconcursion (countable and uncountable, plural concursions)

plural concursions

  1. archaiccountableuncountableA sudden solidification.

    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 […]

    1845, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe

Origin

  1. Latinconcursus
  2. Frenchconcours
  3. Englishconcursion

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

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APA

concursion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/concursion

MLA

“concursion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/concursion. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “concursion,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/concursion.

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