Now rare or Obs. [ad. L. coacervātiōn-em, n. of action, f. coacervāre: see prec.]
1. The action of heaping together, or fact of being heaped together; accumulation.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. cxxviii. (1495), 933. Chorus is a mesure of xxx modius and hath that name of coaceruacion, hepes.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 799. The Equall Spreading of the Tangible Parts, and the Close Coacervation of them.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., ii. 14. Like damp hay, they heat and inflame by co-acervation.
fig. 1601. Bp. Barlow, Defence, 207. It being … not the coaceruation of places, but the true alleadging, which supports the truth.
1641. ‘Smectymnuus,’ Answ., § 6 (1653), 29. To what purpose is that coacervation of Texts?
1852. Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss., 292. The coacervation of proofs.
2. concr. A mass heaped together.
1650. Elderfield, Tythes, 89. To … dispel that coacervation of tough humours about the throat.
1853. De Quincey, Wks. (1862), XIV. vii. 181. To unshell … this existing Rome from its present crowded and towering coacervations.
