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[koe'-ah-LES] 
1. to grow together; to fuse or unite
2. to unite or merge into one group or body: "Creative ideas were never hard to come by for our team, but getting them to coalesce in a cohesive vision was more challenging."
noun form: coalescence
adjective form: coalescent
Origin:
Origin: Approximately 1550; from Latin, 'coalescere' ('co-': together, jointly + 'alescere': to grow, inchoative of 'alere': to nourish). In action:
"In his television commercials, Dean does little to mask the urgency of the situation, telling voters, 'On Tuesday, Wisconsin can be a rubber stamp or you can vote for real change.'
At a rally late last week in Madison, a college town he had once claimed as his strongest territory, Dean dispensed with the political niceties and boldly asked supporters of other struggling campaigns, notably Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, to coalesce around him.
'Only one of us can beat George Bush,' said Dean, whose plea drew a tepid response from the audience, a few of whom were wearing Kucinich buttons. 'I never made the argument that you should vote against your conscience. If you think Dennis is the best candidate, vote for him.'"
Jeff Zeleny. "Underdogs urge voters to weigh options," Chicago Tribune (February 15, 2004).
"A Woolf novel aspires to be like a Monet cathedral, a record of evanescent stimuli, coalescing into a shape. Her characters dissolve into each other (and into her prose) like waves in the sea. William James, the originator of the phrase 'stream of consciousness', has a different emphasis. Consciousness, he says, 'does not appear to itself chopped up into bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly... It is nothing jointed; it flows.' But he insists firmly on the paramount importance of the individual thinker, the self, the 'concrete particular Is and yous'. We have 'personal minds' and the barriers between their thoughts are 'the most absolute breaches in nature'."
A S Byatt. "Soul searching," The Guardian (February 14, 2004).
"Friendship, 'the wine of life,' should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant. Warmth will, no doubt, make a considerable difference. Men of affectionate temper and bright fancy will coalesce a great deal sooner than those who are cold and dull."
James Boswell (1740�1795). Scottish author. Life of Johnson, 1755 (1791).
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