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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concretise.

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  • Note that the line Longinus singles out as ramming the import of this figuration home -- the line which concretises the chimera by asserting that the Aloadae not only strove to do the impossible but actually carried it out, and which thereby creates credibility warp by bringing in the alethic modality of "could not happen" -- is essentially no more than an explicit statement that "this did happen".

    Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Note that the line Longinus singles out as ramming the import of this figuration home -- the line which concretises the chimera by asserting that the Aloadae not only strove to do the impossible but actually carried it out, and which thereby creates credibility warp by bringing in the alethic modality of "could not happen" -- is essentially no more than an explicit statement that "this did happen".

    On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

  • While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008

  • While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • This concretises the partnership between the two sectors.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • This concretises the partnership between the two sectors.

    Speech at the Eskom African Business Leaders Forum 2003

  • It concretises the fact of our opposition even to the new amendments, assuming we accepted any amendments at all.

    INTERVIEW WITH MAYIBUYE ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA AND SOUTHERN AFRICA IN GENERAL, 1984(1) 1984

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