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Conclude

CONCLUDE, verb transitive [Latin , to shut; Gr., contracted. The sense is to stop, make fast, shut, or rather to thrust together. Hence in Latin, claudo signifies to halt, or limp, that is, to stop, as well as to shut. See Lid.]

1. To shut.

The very person of Christ--was only, touching bodily substance, concluded in the grave. [This use of the word is uncommon.]

2. To include; to comprehend.

For God hath concluded them all in unbelief. Romans 11:32.

The scripture hath concluded all under sin. Galatians 3:22.

The meaning of the word in the latter passage may be to declare irrevocably or to doom.

3. To collect by reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close an argument by inferring.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Romans 3:28.

4. To decide; to determine; to make a final judgment or determination.

As touching the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing. Romans 11:32.

5. To end; to finish.

I will conclude this part with the sppech of a counselor of state.

6. To stop or restrain, or as in law, to estop from further argument or proceedings; to oblige or bind, as by authority or by ones own argument or concession; generally in the passive.

If they will appeal to revelation for their creation, they must be concluded by it.

The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

I do not consider the decision of that motion, upon affidavits, to amount to a res judicata, which ought to conclude the present inquiry.

CONCLUDE, verb intransitive

1. To infer, as a consequence; to determine.

The world will conclude I had a guilty conscience.

But this verb is really transitive. The world will conclude that I ahd a guilty conscience--that is here the object, referring to the subsequent clause of the sentence. [See Verb Transitive, No.3.]

2. To settle opinion; to form a final judgment.

Can we conclude upon Luthers instability, as our author has done.

3. To end.

A train of lies, that, made in lust, conclude in perjuries.

The old form of expression, to conclude of, is no longer in use.

Concluded

CONCLUDED, participle passive Shut; ended; finished; determined; inferred; comprehended; stopped, or bound.

Concludency

CONCLUDENCY, noun Inference; logical deducation from premises.

Concludent

CONCLUDENT, adjective Bringing to a close; decisive.

Concluder

CONCLUDER, noun One who concludes.

Concluding

CONCLUDING, participle present tense

1. Shutting; ending; determining; inferring; comprehending.

2. Final; ending; closing; as the concluding sentence of an essay.

Concludingly

CONCLUDINGLY, adverb Conclusively; with incontrovertible evidence. [Little used.]

Conclusible

CONCLUSIBLE, adjective That may be concluded or inferred; determinable. [Little used.]

Conclusion

CONCLUSION, noun [Latin]

1. End; close; the last part; as the conclusion of an address.

2. The close of an argument, debate or reasoning; inference that ends the discussion; final result.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man. Ecclesiastes 12:13.

3. Determination; final decision.

After long debate, the house of commons came to this conclusion

4. Consequence; inference; that which is collected or drawn from premises; particular deduction from propositions, facts, experience, or reasoning.

5. The event of experiments; experiment.

We practice all conclusions of grafting and inoculating. [Little used.]

6. Confinement of the thoughts; silence. [Not used.]

Conclusional

CONCLUSIONAL, adjective Concluding. [Not used.]

Conclusive

CONCLUSIVE, adjective

1. Final; decisive; as a conclusive answer to a proposition.

2. Decisive; giving a final determination; precluding a further act.

The agreeing votes of both houses were not, by any law or reason, conclusive to my judgment.

3. Decisive; concluding the question; putting an end to debate; as a conclusive argument.

4. Regularly consequential.

Men, not knowing the true forms of syllogisms, cannot know whether they are made in right and conlusive modes and figures.

Conclusively

CONCLUSIVELY, adverb Decisively; with final determination; as, the point of law is conclusively settled.

Conclusiveness

CONCLUSIVENESS, noun The quality of being conclusive, or decisive; the power of determining the opinion, or of settling a question; as the conclusiveness of evidence or of an argument.

Concoagulate

CONCOAGULATE, verb transitive [con and coagulate.] To curdle or congeal one thing with another.

Concoagulated

CONCOAGULATED, participle passive Curdled; concreted.

Concoagulating

CONCOAGULATING, participle present tense Concreting; curdling.

Concoagulation

CONCOAGULATION, noun A coagulating together, as different substances, or bodies, in one mass. Crystalization of different slats in the same menstruum. [This word is little used.]

Concoct

CONCOCT, verb transitive [Latin , to cook. See Cook.]

1. To digest by the stomach, so as to turn food to chyle or nutriment.

The vital functions are performed by general and constant laws; the food is concocted.

2. To purify or sublime; to refine by separating the gross or extraneous matter; as, concocted venom.

3. To ripen.

Fruits and grains are half a year in concocting.

Concocted

CONCOCTED, participle passive Digested; purified; ripened.

Concocting

CONCOCTING, participle present tense Digesting; purifying; ripening.

Concoction

CONCOCTION, [Latin]

1. Digestion or solution in the stomach; the process by which food is turned into chyle, or otherwise prepared ot nourish the body; the change which food undergoes in the stomach.

2. Maturation; the process by which morbid matter is separated from the blood or humors, or otherwise change and prepared to be thrown off.

3. A ripening; the acceleration of any thing towards perfection.

Concoctive

CONCOCTIVE, adjective Digesting; having the power of digesting or ripening.

Concolor

CONCOLOR, adjective Of one color. [Not in use.]

Concomitance

CONCOMITANCE, noun [Latin , to accompany, a companion. See Count.] A being together, or in connection with another thing.

The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other.

Concomitant

CONCOMITANT, adjective Accompanying; conjoined with; concurrent; attending.

It has pleased our wise creator to annex to several objects--a concomitant pleasure.

CONCOMITANT, noun A companion; a person or thing that accompanies another, or is collaterally connected. It is seldom applied to persons.

The other concomitant of ingratitude is hard-heartedness.

Reproach is a concomitant to greatness.

Concomitantly

CONCOMITANTLY, adverb In company with others.

Concomitate

CONCOMITATE, verb transitive To accompany or attend; to be collaterally connected. [Not used.]

Concord

CONCORD, noun [Latin , the heart. See Accord.]

1. Agreement between persons; union in opinions, sentiments, views or interests; peace; harmony.

What concord hath Christ with Belial? 2 Corinthians 6:15.

2. Agreement between things; suitableness; harmony.

If, natures concord broke, among the constellations war were sprung.

3. In music, consent of sounds; harmony; the relation between tow or more sounds which are agreeable to the ear. [See Chord.]

The man who hath not music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons.

4. A compact; an agreement by stipulation; treaty.

5. In law, an agreement between the parties in a fine, made by leave of the court. This is an acknowledgment from the deforciants that the land in question is the right of the complainant.

6. In grammar, agreement of words in construction; as adjectives with nouns in gender, number and case; or verbs with nouns or pronouns in number and person. Or concord may signify the system of rules for construction called syntax.

Form of concord in ecclesiastical history, is a book among the Lutherans containing a system of doctrines to be subscribed as a condition of communion, composed at Torgaw in 1576.

Concordance

CONCORDANCE, noun [Latin , to agree. See Concord.]

1. Agreement. In this sense, accordance is generally used.

2. In grammar, concord. [Not used.]

3. A dictionary in which the principal words used in the scriptures are arranged alphabetically, and the book, chapter and verse in which each word occurs are noted; designed to assist an inquirer in finding any passage of scripture, by means of any leading word in a verse which he can recollect.

Concordancy

CONCORDANCY, noun Agreement.

Concordant

CONCORDANT, adjective Agreeing; agreeable; correspondent; harmonious.

CONCORDANT, noun That which is accordant.

Concordantly

CONCORDANTLY, adverb In conjunction.

Concordat

CONCORDAT, noun In the canon law, a compact, covenant, or agreement concerning some beneficiary matter, as a resignation, permutation, promotion and the like. In particular, an agreement made by a prince with the Pope relative to the collation of benefices; such as that between the Emperor Frederic III., the German princes, and the Popes legate, adjective D. 1448.

Concordist

CONCORDIST, noun The compiler of a concordance.

Concorporate

CONCORPORATE, verb transitive [Latin , a body.] To unite different things in one mass or body; to incorporate. [Little used.]

CONCORPORATE, verb intransitive To unite in one mass or body.

Concorporation

CONCORPORATION, noun Union of things in one mass or body.

Concourse

CONCOURSE, noun [Latin , to run together, to run.]

1. A moving, flowing or running together; confluence; as a fortuitous concourse of atoms; a concourse of men.

2. A meeting; an assembly of men; an assemblage of things; a collection formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place. Acts 19:40.

3. The place or point of meeting, or a meeting; the point of junction of two bodies.

The drop will begin to move towards the concourse of the glasses. [This application is unusual.]

Concreate

CONCREATE, verb transitive To create with, or at the same time.

Dr. Taylor-insists that it is inconsistent with the nature of virtue, that it should be concreated with any person.

Concreated

CONCREATED, participle passive Created at the same time, or in union with.

Concredit

CONCREDIT, verb transitive To entrust. [Not used.]

Concremation

CONCREMATION, noun [Latin , to burn together; to burn.] The act of burning different things together. [Little used.]

Concrement

CONCREMENT, noun [Latin , to grow together. See Concrete.] A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union.

Concrescence

CONCRESCENCE, noun [Latin See Concrete.] Growth or increase; the act of growing or increasing by spontaneous union, or the coalescence of separate particles.

Concrescible

CONCRESCIBLE, adjective Capable of concreting; that may congeal or be changed from a liquid to a solid state.

They formed a genuine, fixed, concrescible oil.

Concrete

CONCRETE, adjective [Latin , to grow together, to grow. See Grow.]

1. Literally, united in growth. Hence, formed by coalition of separate particles in one body; consistent in a mass; united in a solid form.

The first concrete state or consistent surface of the chaos.

2. In logic, applied to a subject; not abstract; as the whiteness of snow. Here whiteness is used as a concrete term, as it expresses the quality of snow.

CONCRETE terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to a subject to which they belong.

A concrete number expresses or denotes a particular subject, as three men; but when we use a number without reference to a subject, as three, or five, we use the term in the abstract.

CONCRETE, noun

1. A compound; a mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.

Gold is a porous concrete

2. In philosophy, a mass or compound body, made up of different ingredients; a mixed body or mass.

Soap is a factutious concrete

3. In logic, a concrete term; a term that includes both the quality and the subject in which it exists; as nigrum, a black thing.

CONCRETE, verb intransitive To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body, chiefly by spontaneous cohesion, or other natural process; as saline particles concrete into crystals; blood concretes in a bowl. Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard body. Applied to other substances, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate, , coagulate; as in the concretion of blood.

CONCRETE, verb transitive To form a mass by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.

Concreted

CONCRETED, participle passive United into a solid mass; congealed; inspissated; clotted.

Concretely

CONCRETELY, adverb In a concrete manner; in a manner to include the subject with the predicate; not abstractly.

Concreteness

CONCRETENESS, noun A state of being concrete; coagulation.

Concreting

CONCRETING, participle present tense Coalescing or congealing in a mass; becoming thick; making solid.

Concretion

CONCRETION, noun

1. The act of concreting; the process by which soft or fluid bodies become thick, consistent, solid or hard; the act of growing together, or of uniting, by other natural process, the small particles of matter into a mass.

2. The mass or solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation or induration; a clot; a lump; a solid substance formed in the soft parts or in the cavities of animal bodies.

Concretive

CONCRETIVE, adjective Causing to concrete; having power to produce concretion; tending to form a solid mass from separate particles; as, concretive juices.

Concreture

CONCRETURE, noun A mass formed by concretion. [Not used.]

Concrew

CONCREW, verb intransitive To grow together. [Not used.]

Concubinage

CONCUBINAGE, noun [See Concubine.] The act or practice of cohabiting, as man and woman, in sexual commerce, without the authority of law, or a legal marriage. In a more general sense, this word is used to express any criminal or prohibited sexual commerce, including adultery, incest, and fornication. In some countries, concubinage is a marriage of an inferior kind, or performed with less solemnity than a true or formal marriage; or marriage with a woman of inferior condition, to whom the husband does not convey his rank or quality. This is said to be still in use in Germany.

In law, concubinage is used as an exception against her that sueth for dower; in which it is alledged that she was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine.

Concubinate

CONCUBINATE, noun Whoredom; lewdness. [Not in use.]

Concubine

CONCUBINE, noun [Latin , to lie together, to lie down.]

1. A woman who cohabits with a man, without the authority of a legal marriage; a woman kept for lewd purposes; a kept mistress.

2. A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws.

Conculcate

CONCULCATE, verb transitive [Latin] To tread on; to trample under foot.

Conculcation

CONCULCATION, noun A trampling under foot. [Not much used.]

Concupiscence

CONCUPISCENCE, noun [Latin , to covet or lust after, to desire or covet.] Lust; unlawful or irregular desire of sexual pleasure. In a more general sense, the coveting of carnal things, or an irregular appetite for worldly good; inclination for unlawful enjoyments.

We know even secret concupiscence to be sin.

Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence Romans 7:8.

Concupiscent

CONCUPISCENT, adjective Desirous of unlawful pleasure; libidinous.

Concupiscible

CONCUPISCIBLE, adjective Exciting or impelling to the enjoyment of carnal pleasure; inclining to the attainment of pleasure or good; as concupiscible appetite.

Concur

CONCUR, verb intransitive [Latin , to run together.]

1. To meet in the same point; to agree.

Reason and sense concur

2. To agree; to join or unite, as in one action or opinion; to meet, mind with mind; as, the two houses of parliament concur in the measure.

It has with before the person with whom one agrees.

Mr. Burke concurred with Lord Chatham in opinion.

It has to before the effect.

Extremes in man concur to general use.

3. To unite or be conjoined, with the consequential sense of aiding, or contributing power or influence to a common object.

Various causes may concur in the changes of temperature.

Concurrence

CONCURRENCE, noun

1. A meeting or coming together; union; conjunction.

We have no other measure but of our own ideas, with the concurrence of other probable reasons, to persuade us.

2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design; implying joint approbation.

Tarquin the proud was expelled by the universal concurrence of nobles and people.

3. A meeting or conjunction, whether casual or intended; combination of agents, circumstances or events.

Struck with these great concurrences of things.

4. Agreement; consent; approbation. See No. 2.

5. Agreement or consent, implying joint aid or contribution of power or influence.

From these sublime images we collect the greatness of the work, and the necessity of the divine concurrence to it.

6. A meeting, as of claims, or power; joint rights; implying equality in different persons or bodies; as a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.

Concurrency

CONCURRENCY, noun The same as concurrence; but little used.

Concurrent

CONCURRENT, adjective

1. Meeting; uniting; accompanying; acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act; contributing to the same event or effect; operating with.

I join with these laws the personal presence of the Kings son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.

All combined, your beauty, and my impotence of mind, and his concurrent flame, that blew my fire.

2. Conjoined; associate; concomitant.

There is no difference between the concurrent echo and the iterant, but the quickness or slowness of the return.

3. Joint and equal; existing together and operating on the same objects. The courts of the United States, and those of the States have, in some cases, concurrent jurisdiction.

CONCURRENT, noun That which concurs; joint or contributory cause.

To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents-time, industry and faculties.

Concurrently

CONCURRENTLY, adverb With concurrence; unitedly.

Concurring

CONCURRING, participle present tense Meeting in the same joint; agreeing; running or acting together; uniting in action; contributing to the same event or effect; consenting.

A concurring figure, in geometry, is one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which corresponds with it in all its parts.

Concussation

CONCUSSATION, noun [See Concussion.] A violent shock or agitation.

Concussion

CONCUSSION, noun [Latin , to shake, or shatter. The primary sense is to beat, to strike, or to beat in pieces, to bruise, to beat down.]

1. The act of shaking, particularly and properly, by the stoke or impulse of another body.

It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air, which may be from the concussion of the air.

2. The state of being shaken; a shock; as the concussion of the brain by a stroke. It is used also for shaking or agitation in general; as the concussion of the earth.

Concussive

CONCUSSIVE, adjective Having the power or quality of shaking.

Cond

COND, verb transitive In seamens language, to conduct a ship; to direct the man at helm how to steer.

Condemn

CONDEMN, verb transitive [Latin , to condemn to disapprove, to doom, to devote.]

1. To pronounce to be utterly wrong; to utter a sentence of disapprobation against; to censure; to blame. But the word often expresses more than censure or blame, and seems to include the idea of utter rejection; as, to condemn heretical opinions; to condemn ones conduct.

We condemn mistakes with asperity, where we pass over sins with gentleness.

2. To determine or judge to be wrong, or guilty; to disallow; to disapprove.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence towards God. 1 John 3:21.

3. To witness against; to show or prove to be wrong, or guilty, by a contrary practice.

The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matthew 12:41.

4. To pronounce to be guilty; to sentence to punishment; to utter sentence against judicially; to doom; opposed to acquit or absolve; with to before the penalty.

The son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests, and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death. Matthew 20:18.

He that believeth on him is not condemned. John 3:18.

5. To doom or sentence to pay a fine; to fine.

And the king of Egypt--condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Chronicles 36:3.

6. To judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; as, the ship was condemned as not sea-worthy. To judge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.

Condemnable

CONDEMNABLE, adjective That may be condemned; blamable; culpable.

Condemnation

CONDEMNATION, noun

1. The act of condemning; the judicial act of declaring one guilty, and dooming him to punishment.

For the judgment was by one to condemnation Romans 5:16.

2. The state of being condemned.

Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation Luke 23:40.

3. The cause or reason of a sentence of condemnation John 3:19.

Condemnatory

CONDEMNATORY, adjective Condemning; bearing condemnation or censure; as a condemnatory sentence or decree.

Condemned

CONDEMNED, participle passive Censures; pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment.

Condemner

CONDEMNER, noun One who condemns or censures.

Condemning

CONDEMNING, participle present tense Censuring; disallowing; pronouncing to be wrong, guilty, worthless or forfeited; sentencing to punishment.

Condensable

CONDENSABLE, adjective [See Condense.] Capable of being condensed; that may be compressed into a smaller compass, and into a more close, compact state; as, vapor is condensable

Condensate

CONDENSATE, verb transitive [See Condense.] To condense; to compress into a closer form to cause to take a more compact state; to make more dense.

CONDENSATE, verb intransitive To become more dense, close or hard.

CONDENSATE, adjective Made dense; condensed; made more close or compact.

Condensation

CONDENSATION, adjective [Latin See Condense.] The act of making more dense or compact; or the act of causing the parts that compose a body to approach or unite more closely, either by mechanical pressure, or by a natural process; the state of being condensed. Dew and clouds are supposed to be formed by the condensation of vapor. It is opposed to rarefaction and expansion. condensation is applicable to any compressible matter; and from condensation proceeds increased hardness, solidity, and weight.

Condensative

CONDENSATIVE, adjective Having a power or tendency to condense.

Condense

CONDENSE, verb transitive [Latin , to make thick or close. See Dense.]

1. To make more close, thick or compact; to cause the particles of a body to approach, or to unite more closely, either by their own attraction or affinity, or by mechanical force. Thus, vapor is said to be condensed into water by the application of cold; and air is condensed in a tube by pressure. Hence the word is sometimes equivalent to compress.

2. To make thick; to inspissate; applied to soft compressible substances.

3. To compress into a smaller compass, or into a close body; to crowd; applied to separate individuals. Thus we say to condense ideas into a smaller compass.

CONDENSE, verb intransitive To become close or more compact, as the particles of a body; to approach or unite more closely; to grow thick.

Vapors condense and coalesce into small parcels.

CONDENSE, adjective Close in texture or composition; compact; firm; dense; condensated. [See Dense, which is generally used.]

Condensed

CONDENSED, participle passive Made dense, or more close in parts; made or become compact; compressed into a narrower compass.

Condenser

CONDENSER, noun He or that which condenses; particularly a pneumatic engine or syringe in which air may be compressed. It consists of a cylinder, in which is a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent the air from escaping.

Condensity

CONDENSITY, noun The state of being condensed; denseness; density. [The latter are generally used.]

Conder

CONDER, noun [Latin See Cond.]

1. A person who stands upon a cliff, or elevated part of the sea-coast, in the time of the herring fishery, to point out to the fishermen by signs, the source of the shoals of fish.

2. One who gives directions to a helmsman how to steer the ship.

Condescend

CONDESCEND, verb intransitive [Latin See Descend.]

1. To descend from the privileges of superior rank or dignity, to do some act to an inferior, which strict justice or the ordinary rules of civility do not require. Hence, to submit or yield, as to an inferior, implying an occasional relinquishment of distinction.

Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Romans 12:16.

2. To recede from ones rights in negotiation, or common intercourse, to do some act, which strict justice does not require.

Spains mighty monarch, in gracious clemency does condescend on these conditions, to become your friend.

3. To stoop or descend; to yield; to submit; implying a relinquishment of rank, or dignity of character, and sometimes a sinking into debasement.

Can they think me so broken, so debased, with corporal servitude, that my mind ever will condescend to such absurd commands?

Condescendence

CONDESCENDENCE, noun A voluntary yielding or submission to an inferior.

You will observe [in the Turks] an insulting condescendence which bespeaks their contempt of you.

Condescending

CONDESCENDING, participle present tense

1. Descending from rank or distinction in the intercourse of life; receding from rights or claims; yielding.

2. Yielding to inferiors; courteous; obliging.

Condescendingly

CONDESCENDINGLY, adverb By way of yielding to inferiors; with voluntary submission; by way of kind concession; courteously.

Condescension

CONDESCENSION, noun Voluntary descent from rank, dignity or just claims; relinquishment of strict right; submission to inferiors in granting requests or performing acts which strict justice does not require. Hence, courtesy.

It forbids pride and commands humility, modesty and condescension to others.

Raphael, amidst his tenderness, shows such a dignity and condescension in all his behavior, as are suitable to a superior nature.

Condescensive

CONDESCENSIVE, adjective Condescending; courteous.

Condescent

CONDESCENT, noun Condescension. [Not used.]

Condign

CONDIGN, adjective [Latin , worthy. See Dignity.]

1. Deserved; merited; suitable; applied usually to punishment; as, the malefactor has suffered condign punishment.

2. Worthy; merited; as condign praise.

[In the latter sense, seldom used.]

Condignity

CONDIGNITY, noun Merit; desert. In school divinity, the merit of human actions which claims reward, on the score of justice.

Condignly

CONDIGNLY, adverb According to merit.

Condignness

CONDIGNNESS, noun Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.

Condiment

CONDIMENT, noun [Latin , to season, pickle or preserve.] Seasoning; sauce; that which is used to give relish to meat or other food, and to gratify the taste.

As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment.

Condisciple

CONDISCIPLE, noun [Latin See Disciple.] A school fellow; a learner in the same school, or under the same instructor.

Condite

CONDITE, verb transitive [Latin] To prepare and preserve with sugar, salt, spices, or the like; to pickle; as, to condite peras, plums, quinces, mushrooms, etc. [Little used.]

Conditement

CONDITEMENT, noun A composition of conserves, powders, and spices, in the form of an electuary. [Little used.]

Conditing

CONDITING, participle present tense Preserving. [Little used.]

Condition

CONDITION, noun [Latin , to build or make, to ordain; properly, to set or fix, or to set together or in order; con and do, to give; properly, to send.]

1. State; a particular mode of being; applied to external circumstances, to the body, to the mind, and to things. We speak of a good condition or a bad condition in reference to wealth and poverty; in reference to health and sickness; in reference to a cheerful or depressed disposition of mind; and with reference to a sound or broken, perishing state of things. The word signifies a setting or fixing, and has a very general and indefinite application, coinciding nearly with state, from sto, to stand, and denotes that particular frame, form, mode or disposition, in which a thing exists, at any given time. A man is in a good condition when he is thriving. A nation, with an exhausted treasury and burthened with taxes, is not in a condition to make war. A poor man is in a humble condition Religion affords consolation to man in every condition of life. Exhortations should be adapted to the condition of the mind.

CONDITION, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

2. Quality; property; attribute.

It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and belongs to be hidden and unseen to others.

3. State of mind; temper; temperament; complexion. [See No. 1.]

4. Moral quality; virtue or vice.

[These senses however fall within the first definition.]

5. Rank, that is, state with respect to the orders or grades of society, or to property; as, persons of the best condition

6. Terms of a contract or covenant; stipulation; that is, that which is set, fixed, established or proposed. What are the conditions of the treaty?

Make our conditions with yon captive king.

He sendeth and desireth conditions of peace. Luke 14:32.

7. A clause in a bond, or other contract containing terms or a stipulation that it is to be performed, and in case of failure, the penalty of the bond is to be incurred.

8. Terms given, or provided, as the ground of something else; that which is established, or to be done, or to happen, as requisite to another act; as, I will pay a sum of money, on condition you will engage to refund it.

A condition is a clause of contingency, on the happening of which the estate granted may be defeated.

CONDITION, verb intransitive To make terms; to stipulate.

It is one thing to condition for a good office, and another to execute it.

CONDITION, verb transitive To contract; to stipulate.

It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.

Conditional

CONDITIONAL, adjective

1. Containing or depending on a condition or conditions; made with limitations; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms. A conditional promise is one which is to be performed, when something else stipulated is done or has taken place. A conditional fee, in law, is one which is granted upon condition, that if the donee shall die without such particular heirs as are specified, the estate shall revert to the donor. Hence it is a fee restrained to particular heirs, to the exclusion of others.

2. In grammar and logic, expressing a condition or supposition; as a conditional word, mode, or tense; a conditional syllogism.

CONDITIONAL, noun A limitation.

Conditionality

CONDITIONALITY, noun The quality of being conditional , or limited; limitation by certain terms.

Conditionally

CONDITIONALLY, adverb With certain limitations; on particular terms or stipulations; not absolutely or positively.

We see large preferments tendered to him, but conditionally upon his doing wicked offices.

Conditionary

CONDITIONARY, adjective Conditional; Stipulated. [Not used.]

Conditionate

CONDITIONATE, adjective Conditional; established on certain terms. [Not used.]

CONDITIONATE, verb transitive To qualify; to regulate. [Not in use.]

Conditioned

CONDITIONED, participle passive

1. Stipulated; containing terms to be performed.

2. adjective Having a certain state or qualities. This word is usually preceded by some qualifying term; as good-conditioned; ill-conditioned; best-conditioned.

Conditionly

CONDITIONLY, adverb On certain terms. [Not used.]

Condole

CONDOLE, verb intransitive [Latin , to ache, or to grieve.] To feel pain, or to grieve, at the distress or misfortunes of another.

Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you.

It is followed by with before the person for whom we feel grief.

CONDOLE, verb transitive To lament or bewail with another, or on account of anothers misfortune. [Unusual.]

Why should our poet petition Isis for her safe delivery, and afterwards condole her miscarriage?

Condolement

CONDOLEMENT, noun Grief; pain of mid, at anothers loss or misfortune; sorrow; mourning.

Condolene

CONDOLENE, noun Pain of mind, or grief excited by the distress, or misfortune of another.

Condoler

CONDOLER, noun One who condoles.

Condoling

CONDOLING, participle present tense Grieving at anothers distress.

CONDOLING, noun Expression of grief for anothers loss.

Condoma

CONDOMA, noun An animal of the goat kind, as large as a stag, and of a gray color.

It is a species of Antelope, the adjective Strepsiceros.

Condonation

CONDONATION, noun [Latin] The act of pardoning. [Little used.]

Condor

CONDOR, noun The largest species of fowl hitherto discovered; a native of South America. Some naturalists class it with the vulture; others, with the eagle. The wings of the largest, when expanded, are said to extend 15 or 18 feet; and the fowl has strength to bear off a calf or a deer.

The size of the condor has been greatly exaggerated. It is about the size of the Lammer-geyer or vulture of the Alps, which it resembles in its habits. It is properly a vulture.

Conduce

CONDUCE, verb intransitive [Latin , to lead.] To lead or tend; to contribute; followed by to.

They may conduce to farther discoveries for completing the theory of light.

To conduce to includes the sense of aiding, tending to produce, or furnishing the means; hence it is sometimes equivalent to promote, advance, or further. Virtue conduces to the welfare of society. Religion conduces to temporal happiness. Temperance conduces to health and long life.

In the transitive sense, to conduct, it is not authorized.

Conducement

CONDUCEMENT, noun A leading or tending to; tendency.

Conducent

CONDUCENT, adjective Tending or contributing to.

Conducible

CONDUCIBLE, adjective [Latin] Leading or tending to; having the power of conducing; having a tendency to promote or forward.

Our Savior hath enjoined us a reasonable service; all his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them.

[This word is less used than conducive.]

Conducibleness

CONDUCIBLENESS, noun The quality of leading or contributing to any end.

Conducive

CONDUCIVE, adjective That may conduce or contribute; having a tendency to promote.

An action, however conducive to the good of our country, will be represented as prejudicial to it.

Conduciveness

CONDUCIVENESS, noun The quality of conducing or tending to promote.

Conduct

CONDUCT, noun [Latin , to lead. See Duke.]

1. Literally, the act of leading; guidance; command. So Waller has used it.

CONDUCT of armies is a princes art.

2. The act of convoying, or guarding; guidance or brining along under protection.

3. Guard on the way; convoy; escort.

[These senses are now unusual, though not improper.]

4. In a general sense, personal behavior; course of actions; deportment; applicable equally to a good or a bad course of actions; as laudable conduct; detestable conduct The word seems originally to have been followed with life, actions, affairs, or other term; as the conduct of life; the conduct of actions; that is, the leading along of life or actions.

Young men in the conduct and manage of actions embrace more than they can hold.

What in the conduct of our life appears.

But by custom, conduct alone is now used to express the idea of behavior or course of life and manners.

5. Exact behavior; regular life. [Unusual.]

6. Management; mode of carrying on.

Christianity has humanized the conduct of war.

7. The title of two clergymen appointed to read prayers at Eton College in England.

CONDUCT, verb transitive

1. To lead; to bring along; to guide; to accompany and show the way.

And Judah came to Gilgal--to conduct the king over Jordan. 2 Samuel 19:15.

2. To lead; to direct or point out the way.

The precepts of Christ will conduct us to happiness.

3. To lead; to usher in; to introduce; to attend in civility.

Pray receive them nobly, and conduct them into our presence.

4. To give a direction to; to manage; applied to things; as, the farmer conducts his affairs with prudence.

5. To lead, as a commander; to direct; to govern; to command; as, to conduct an army or a division of troops.

6. With the reciprocal pronoun, to conduct ones self, is to behave. Hence, by a customary omission of the pronoun, to conduct in an intransitive sense, is to behave; to direct personal actions. [See the Noun.]

7. To escort; to accompany and protect on the way.

Conducted

CONDUCTED, participle passive Led; guided; directed; introduced; commanded; managed.

Conducting

CONDUCTING, participle present tense Leading; escorting; introducing; commanding; behaving; managing.

Conduction

CONDUCTION, noun

1. The act of training up. [Not in use.]

2. Transmission through or by means of a conductor.

Conductitious

CONDUCTITIOUS, adjective [Latin , to hire.] Hired; employed for wages.

Conductor

CONDUCTOR, noun

1. A leader; a guide; one who goes before or accompanies, and shows the way.

2. A chief; a commander; one who leads an army or a people.

3. A director; a manager.

4. In surgery, an instrument which serves to direct the knife in cutting for the stone, and in laying up sinuses and fistulas; also, a machine to secure a fractured limb.

5. In electrical experiments, any body that receives and communicates electricity; such as metals and moist substances. Bodies which repel it, or into which it will not pass, are called non-conductors. Hence,

6. A metallic rod erected by buildings or in ships, to conduct lightning to the earth or water, and protect the building from its effects.

Conductress

CONDUCTRESS, noun A female who leads or directs; a directress.

Conduit

CONDUIT, noun [Latin , to conduct.]

1. A canal or pipe for the conveyance of water; an aqueduct. Conduits are made of lead, stone, cast iron, wood, etc., above or below the surface of the earth.

2. A vessel that conveys the blood or other fluid.

The conduits of my blood.

3. A conductor.

These organs are the nerves which are the conduits to convey them from without to their audience in the brain.

4. A pipe or cock for drawing off liquor.

5. Any channel that conveys water or fluids; a sink, sewer or drain.

Conduplicate

CONDUPLICATE, adjective [Latin , to double or fold. See Double.] Doubled or folded over or together; as the leaves of a bud.

CONDUPLICATE, verb transitive To double; to fold together.

Conduplicated

CONDUPLICATED, adjective Doubled; folded together.

Conduplication

CONDUPLICATION, noun [Latin] A doubling; a duplicate.

Condyl

CONDYL, noun [Latin , Gr.] A protuberance on the end of a bone; a knot, or foint; a knuckle.

Condyloid

CONDYLOID, adjective [Gr., and form.] The condyloid process is the posterior protuberance at the extremities of the under jaw; an oblong rounded head, which is received into the fossa of the temporal bone, forming a movable articulation. The anterior is called the coronoid process.

CONDYLOID, noun The apophysis of a bone; the projecting soft end, or process of a bone.

Cone

CONE, noun [It coincides in radical sense with the root of can and begin.]

1. A solid body or figure having a circle for its base, and its top terminated in a point or vertex, like a sugar loaf.

2. In botany, the conical fruit of several evergreen trees, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, usually opening , and has a seed at the base of each scale.

A cone of rays, in optics, includes all the rays of light which proceed from a radiant point and fall upon the surface of a glass.

A right cone is when its axis is perpendicular to its base, and its sides equal. It is formed by the revolution of a right-angle plane triangle about one of its sides.

A scalene cone is when its axis is inclined to its base and its sides unequal.

Conepate

CONEPATE, CONEPATL, noun An animal of the weasel kind in America, resembling the pole-cat in form and size, and its fetid stench.

Conepatl

CONEPATE, CONEPATL noun An animal of the weasel kind in America, resembling the pole-cat in form and size, and its fetid stench.

Coney

CONEY. [See Cony.]

Confabulate

CONFABULATE, verb intransitive [Latin , to tell. See Fable.] To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

If birds confabulate or no. [Little used.]

Confabulation

CONFABULATION, noun [Latin] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. [Not an elegant word, and little used.]

Confabulatory

CONFABULATORY, adjective Belonging to familiar talk. [Little used.]

Confamiliar

CONFAMILIAR, adjective Very familiar. [Not in use.]

Confarreation

CONFARREATION, noun [Latin , to join in marriage with a cake, corn or meal.] The solemnization of marriage among the Romans, by a ceremony in which the bridegroom and bride tasted a cake made of flour with salt and water, called far or panis farreus, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.

Confated

CONFATED, adjective Fated together. [Not in use.]