rare. [ad. L. concinnāt-us, pa. pple. of concinnāre: see next.]
† 1. As pa. pple. Made fit; fitted (unto). Obs.
a. 1600. Hooker, Serm., iii. § 4. Wks. 1888, III. 636. If God do suffer with unweariable toleration vessels concinnate unto death.
1613. R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Concinnate, made fit, finely apparrelled.
2. adj. Of language: Skillfully put together, appropriately arranged; of studied elegance or beauty.
1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VII., an. 5 (R.). He was a manne of ripe iudgement in electinge and chosynge concinnate termes, and apte and eloquente woordes.
1849. Fraser’s Mag., XL. 317. Because of the ode’s concinnate excellence, it is especially difficult to translate it.
