Literary notes about coalesce (AI summary)
Writers employ “coalesce” to evoke the notion of disparate elements gradually merging into a unified whole. In some works, the term illustrates how ambition or conflict, as in political or religious struggles, ultimately comes together to form a single force [1],[2],[3],[4]. In other contexts, it describes physical or biological processes, such as when minute droplets or cellular structures merge to create a larger, coherent form [5],[6],[7],[8]. Authors also use the word in more abstract treatments, suggesting that scattered truths or qualities blend into a harmonious entity, enriching the narrative with a sense of inevitable synthesis [9],[10].
- The interest of the State, and the interest of their own ambition, impelled them to coalesce.
— from Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron - The hundred sects into which Christians are divided, would coalesce; for it is the New Testament which keeps them asunder.
— from Five Pebbles from the Brook by George Bethune English - They needed only to coalesce, and the Parliament called by Oliver's own writs would be an Anti-Oliverian Parliament.
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660
Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson - I believe that if all the kings of Europe were to coalesce against me I should have a ridiculous paunch."
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I - If the lesions coalesce and form patches of various shapes and sizes, the eruption is called confluent.
— from A Practical Treatise on Smallpox by George Henry Fox - During the process the granules coalesce, and in this manner form distinct drops of fat.
— from Anatomy and Embalming
A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this Subject by Albert John Nunnamaker - Embryonic cells send out processes, and so become multipolar; the processes of adjacent cells coalesce.
— from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the higher animals the two penes coalesce into one .
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken - Herein moral rigor, forbearance, and gentleness do majestically coalesce.
— from Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits;A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. (Clark Smith) Beardslee - The scattered elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 1
With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron