Concretises

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". ❋ 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. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

This concretises the partnership between the two sectors. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It concretises the fact of our opposition even to the new amendments, assuming we accepted any amendments at all. ❋ Unknown (1984)