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Confect

CONFECT, verb transitive To make sweetmeats. [Not used. See Comfit.]

CONFECT, noun [Latin , See Comfit.] Something prepared with sugar or honey, as fruit, hergs, roots and the like; a sweet-meat.

Confection

CONFECTION, noun [Latin , to make.]

1. Any thing prepared with sugar, as fruit; a sweetmeat; something preserved.

2. A composition or mixture.

3. A soft electuary.

Confectionary

CONFECTIONARY, CONFECTIONER, noun One whose occupation is to make, or to sell sweetmeats, etc. [The latter word is most generally used.]

Confectioner

CONFECTIONARY, CONFECTIONER noun One whose occupation is to make, or to sell sweetmeats, etc. [The latter word is most generally used.]

CONFECTIONARY, noun

1. A place for sweetmeats; a place where sweetmeats and similar things are made of sold.

2. Sweetmeats in general; things prepared or sold by a CONFECTIONER

Confector

CONFECTOR, noun [Latin] An officer in the Roman games, whose business was to kill any beast that was dangerous.

Confectory

CONFECTORY, adjective Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats.

Confederacy

CONFEDERACY, noun [Latin , a league. See Federal and Wed.]

1. A league, or covenant; a contract between two or more persons, bodies of men or states, combined in support of each other, in some act or enterprise; mutual engagement; federal compact.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice. A confederacy of princes to check innovation.

2. The persons, states or nations united by a league.

Virgil has a whole confederacy against him.

3. In law, a combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act.

Confederate

CONFEDERATE, adjective [Latin] United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy.

These were confederate with Abram. Genesis 14:13.

Syria is confederate with Ephraim. Isaiah 7:2.

CONFED'ERATE, noun One who is united with others in a league; a person or nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally.

CONFED'ERATE, verb intransitive [Latin] To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant.

By words men come to know one another's minds; by these they covenant and confederate

The colonies of America confederated in 1775.

Several States of Europe have sometimes confederated for mutual safety.

CONFED'ERATE, verb transitive To unite in a league; to ally.

With these the Piercies them confederate

Confederated

CONFED'ERATED, participle passive United in a league.

Confederating

CONFED'ERATING, participle present tense Uniting in a league.

Confederation

CONFEDERA'TION, [Latin]

1. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance; particularly of princes, nations or states.

The three princes enter into a strict league and confederation

2. The United States of America are sometimes called the confederation

Confer

CONFER', verb intransitive [Latin , to bear, to bring forth, to show, to declare. See Bear.] To discourse; to converse; to consult together; implying conversation on some serious or important subject, in distinction from mere talk or light familiar conversation; followed by with.

Adonijah conferred with Joab and Abiathar. I Kings 1.

Festus conferred with the council. Acts 25:1.

CONFER', verb transitive

1. To give, or bestow; followed by on.

Coronation confers on the king no royal authority.

This word is particularly used to express the grant of favors, benefits and privileges to be enjoyed, or rights which are to be permanent; as, to confer on one the privileges of a citizen; to confer a title or an honor.

2. To compare; to examine by comparison; literally, to bring together. [See Compare.]

If we confer these observations with others of the like nature.

[This sense, though genuine, is now obsolete.]

3. To contribute; to conduce to; that is, to bring to. The closeness of parts confers much to the strength of the union, or intransitively, confers to the strength of the union.

Conference

CON'FERENCE, noun [See Confer.]

1. The act of conversing on a serious subject; a discoursing between two or more, for the purpose of instruction, consultation, or deliberation; formal discourse; oral discussion.

For they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me. Galatians 2:6.

The ministers had a conference at Ratisbon.

2. A meeting for consultation, discussion or instruction.

3. Comparison; examination of things by comparison.

The mutual conference of observations. The conference of different passages of scripture.

[This sense is, I believe, now obsolete.]

Conferred

CONFER'RED, participle passive Given; imparted; bestowed.

Conferrer

CONFER'RER, noun One who confers; one who converses; one who bestows.

Conferring

CONFER'RING, participle present tense Conversing together; bestowing.

Confess

CONFESS', verb transitive [Latin , to own or acknowledge.]

1. To own, acknowledge or avow, as a crime, a fault, a charge, a debt, or something that is against one's interest, or reputation.

Human faults with human grief confess

I confess the argument against me is good and not easily refuted.

let us frankly confess our sins.

'Confess thee freely of thy sins, ' used by Shakespeare, is not legitimate, unless in the sense of Catholics.

2. In the Catholic Church, to acknowledge sins and faults to a priest; to disclose the state of the conscience to a priest, in private, with a view to absolution; sometimes with the reciprocal pronoun.

The beautiful votary confessed herself to this celebrated father.

3. To own, avow or acknowledge; publicly to declare a belief in and adherence to.

Whoever shall confess me before men. Matthew 10:32.

4. To own and acknowledge, as true disciples, friends or children.

Him will I confess before my father who is heaven.

5. To own; to acknowledge; to declare to be true, or to admit or assent to in words; opposed to deny.

Then will I confess to thee, that thine own right hand can save thee. Job 11:1.

These-- confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth. Hebrews 11:13.

6. To show by the effect; to prove; to attest.

Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mold.

7. To hear or receive the confession of another; as, the priest confessed the nuns.

CONFESS', verb intransitive To make confession; to disclose faults, or the state of the conscience; as, this man went to the priest to confess

Confessant

CONFESS'ANT, noun One who confesses to a priest.

Confessary

CONFESS'ARY, noun One who makes a confession. [Not used.]

Confessed

CONFESS'ED, participle passive Owned; acknowledged; declared to be true; admitted in words; avowed; admitted to disclose to a priest.

Confessedly

CONFESS'EDLY, adverb

1. By confession, or acknowledgment; avowedly; undeniably. Demosthenes was confessedly the greatest orator in Greece.

2. With avowed purpose; as, his object was confessedly to secure to himself a benefice.

Confessing

CONFESS'ING, participle present tense Owning; avowing; declaring to be true or real; granting or admitting by assent; receiving disclosure of sins, or the state of the conscience of another.

Confession

CONFES'SION, noun

1. The acknowledgment of a crime, fault or something to one's disadvantage; open declaration of guilt, failure, debt, accusation, etc.

With the mouth confession is made to salvation. Romans 10:10.

2. Avowal; the act of acknowledging; profession.

Who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession 1 Timothy 6:13.

3. The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest; the disburdening of the conscience privately to a confessor; sometimes called auricular confession

4. A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission into a church.

5. The acknowledgment of a debt by a debtor before a justice of the peace, etc., on which judgment is entered and execution issued.

Confessional

CONFES'SIONAL, noun The seat where a priest or confessor sits to hear confessions; a confession-chair.

Confessionary

CONFES'SIONARY, noun A confession-chair, as above.

CONFES'SIONARY, adjective Pertaining to auricular confession.

Confessionist

CONFES'SIONIST, noun One who makes a profession of faith.

Confessor

CONFESS'OR, noun

1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges his sins.

2. One who makes a profession of his faith in the Christian religion. The word is appropriately used to denote one who avows his religion in the face of danger, and adheres to it, in defiance of persecution and torture. It was formerly used as synonymous with martyr; afterwards it was applied to those who, having been persecuted and tormented, were permitted to die in peace. It was used also for such Christians as lived a good life, and died with the reputation of sanctity.

3. A priest; one who hears the confessions of others, and has power to grant them absolution.

Confest

CONFEST', participle passive [for confessed.] Owned; open; acknowledged; apparent; not disputed.

Confestly

CONFEST'LY, adverb [for confessedly.] Avowedly; indisputably. [Little used.]

Confidant

CON'FIDANT, noun [See Confident.]

Confide

CONFI'DE, verb transitive [Latin , to trust. See Faith.] To trust; to rely on, with a persuasion of faithfulness or veracity in the person trusted or of the reality of a fact; to give credit to ; to believe in, with assurance; followed by in. The prince confides in his ministers. The minister confides in the strength and resources of the nation. we confide in the veracity of the sacred historians. We confide in the truth of a report.

CONFI'DE, verb transitive To entrust; to commit to the charge of, with a belief in the fidelity of the person entrusted; to deliver into possession of another, with assurance of safe keeping, or good management; followed by to. We confide a secret to a friend. The prince confides a negotiation to his envoy. The common interests of the United States are confided to the Congress.

They would take the property out of the hands of those to whom it was confided by the charter.

Congress may, under the constitution, confide to the circuit court, jurisdiction of all offenses against the United States.

Confided

CONFI'DED, participle passive Entrusted; committed to the care of, for preservation, or for performance or exercise.

Confidence

CON'FIDENCE, noun [Latin See Confide.]

1. A trusting, or reliance; an assurance of mind or firm belief in the integrity, stability or veracity of another, or in the truth and reality of a fact.

It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man. Psalms 118:8.

I rejoice that I have confidence in you in all things. 2 Corinthians 7:16.

Mutual confidence is the basis of social happiness.

I place confidence in a statement, or in an official report.

2. Trust; reliance; applied to one's own abilities, or fortune; belief in one's own competency.

His times being rather prosperous than calm, had raised his confidence by success.

3. That in which trust is placed; ground of trust; he or that which supports.

Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence Jeremiah 48:13.

Jehovah shall be thy confidence Proverbs 3:26.

4. Safety, or assurance of safety; security.

They shall build houses and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence Ezekiel 28:26.

5. Boldness; courage.

Preaching the kingdom of God with all confidence Acts 28:31.

6. Excessive boldness; assurance, proceeding forom vanity or a false opinion of one's own abilities, or excellencies.

Their confidence ariseth from too much credit given to their own wits.

Confident

CON'FIDENT, adjective

1. Having full belief; trusting; relying; fully assured.

I am confident that much may be cone towards the improvement of philosophy.

The troops rush on, confident of success.

2. Positive; dogmatical; as a confident talker.

3. Trusting; without suspicion.

Rome, be as just and gracious unto me, as I am confident and kind to thee.

4. Bold to a vice; having an excess of assurance.

The fool rageth and is confident Proverbs 14:16.

CON'FIDENT, noun One entrusted with secrets; a confidential or bosom friend.

[This word has been usually, but improperly, written confidant. I have followed the regular English orthography, as Coxe and Mitford have done.]

Confidential

CONFIDEN'TIAL, adjective

1. Enjoying the confidence of another; trusty; that may be safely trusted; as a confidential friend.

2. That is to be treated or kept in confidence; private; as a confidential matter.

3. Admitted to a special confidence.

Confidentially

CONFIDEN'TIALLY, adverb In confidence; in reliance or secrecy.

Confidently

CON'FIDENTLY, adverb With firm trust; with strong assurance; without doubt or wavering of opinion; positively; as, to believe confidently; to assert confidently

Confidentness

CON'FIDENTNESS, noun Confidence; the quality or state of having full reliance.

Confider

CONFI'DER, noun one who confides; one who entrusts to another.

Configurate

CONFIG'URATE, verb intransitive [Latin See Configure.] To show like the aspects of the planets towards each other.

Configuration

CONFIGURA'TION, noun [Latin]

1. External form, figure, shape; the figure which bounds a body, and gives it its external appearance, constituting one of the principal differences between bodies.

2. Aspects of the planets; or the face of the horoscope, according to the aspects of the planets toward each other at any time.

3. Resemblance of one figure to another.

Configure

CONFIG'URE, verb transitive [Latin , to form, figure.] To form; to dispose in a certain form, figure or shape.

Confinable

CONFI'NABLE, adjective That may be confined or limited.

Confine

CON'FINE, noun [Latin , at the end or border, adjoining; a limit; end, border, limit. See Fine.] Border; edge; exterior part; the part of any territory which is at or near the end or extremity. It is used generally in the plural, and applied chiefly to the countries, territory, cities, rivers, etc. We say, the confines of France, or of Scotland, and figuratively, the confines of light, of death, or the grave; but never, the confines of a book, table or small piece of land.

CON'FINE, adjective Bordering on; lying on the border; adjacent; having a common boundary.

CON'FINE, verb intransitive To border on; to touch the limit; to be adjacent or contiguous, as one territory, kingdom or state to another; usually followed by on; sometimes by with. England confines on Scotland. Connecticut confines on Massachusets, New-York, Rhode Island and the sound.

CONFI'NE, verb transitive [See Supra.]

1. To bound or limit; to restrain within limits; hence, to imprison; to shut up; to restrain from escape by force or insurmountable obstacles, in a general sense; as, to confine horses or cattle to an inclosure; to confine water in a pond, to dam; to confine a garrison in a town; to confine a criminal in prison.

2. To immure; to deep close, by a voluntary act; to be much at home or in retirement; as, a man confines himself to his studies, or to his house.

3. To limit or restrain voluntarily, in some act or practice; as, a man may confine himself to the use of animal food.

4. To tie or bind; to make fast or close; as, to confine air in a bladder, or corn in a bag or sack.

5. To restrain by a moral force; as, to confine men by laws. The constitution of the United States confines the states to the exercise of powers of a local nature.

Confined

CONFI'NED, participle passive Restrained within limits; imprisoned; limited; secluded; close.

Confineless

CON'FINELESS, adjective Boundless; unlimited; without end.

Confinement

CONFI'NEMENT, noun

1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty by force or other obstacle or necessity; as the confinement of a debtor or criminal to a prison, or of troops to a besieged town.

2. Voluntary restraint; seclusion; as the confinement of a man to his house, or to his studies.

3. Voluntary restraint in action or practice; as confinement to a particular diet.

4. Restraint from going abroad by sickness, particularly by child-birth.

Confiner

CONFI'NER, noun He or that which limits or restrains.

CONFINER, noun

1. A borderer; one who lives on confines, or near the border of a country.

2. He or that which is near the limit; a near neighbor; he or that which is adjacent or contiguous; as confiners in art; confiners between plants and animals, as oysters.

Confining

CONFINING, participle present tense Restraining; limiting; imprisoning.

Confinity

CONFINITY, noun [Latin] Contiguity; nearness; neighborhood.

Confirm

CONFIRM, verb transitive [Latin , to make firm. See Firm.]

1. To make firm, or more firm; to add strength to; to strengthen; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

2. To fix more firmly; to settle or establish.

CONFIRMing the souls of the disciples. Acts 14:1.

I confirm thee in the priesthood. Maccabees.

CONFIRM the crown to me and to mine heirs.

3. To make firm or certain; to give new assurance of truth or certainty; to put past doubt.

The testimony of Christ was confirmed in you. 1 Corinthians 1:8.

4. To fix; to radicate; as, the patient has a confirmed dropsy.

5. To strengthen; to ratify; as, to confirm an agreement, promise, covenant or title.

6. To make more firm; to strengthen; as, to confirm an opinion, a purpose or resolution.

7. To admit to the full privileges of a Christian, by the imposition of hands.

Confirmable

CONFIRMABLE, adjective That may be confirmed, established or ratified; capable of being made more certain.

Confirmation

CONFIRMATION, noun

1. The act of confirming or establishing; a fixing, settling, establishing or making more certain or firm; establishment.

In the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye are all partakers of my grace. Philippians 1:7.

2. The act of ratifying; as the confirmation of a promise, covenant, or stipulation.

3. The act of giving new strength; as the confirmation of health.

4. The act of giving new evidence; as the confirmation of opinion or report.

5. That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony; as, this fact or this argument is a confirmation of what was before alleged.

6. In law, an assurance of title, by the conveyance of an estate or right in esse, from one man to another, by which a voidable estate is made sure or unavoidable, or a particular estate is increased, or a possession made perfect.

7. In church affairs, the act of ratifying the election of an archbishop or bishop, by the king, or by persons of his appointment.

8. The act or ceremony of laying on of hands, in the admission of baptized person to the enjoyment of Christian privileges. The person to be confirmed brings his godfather and godmother, and takes upon himself the baptismal vows. This is practiced in the Greek, Roman, and Episcopal churches.

Confirmative

CONFIRMATIVE, adjective Having the power of confirming; tending to establish.

Confirmator

CONFIRMATOR, noun He or that which confirms.

Confirmatory

CONFIRMATORY, adjective

1. That serves to confirm; giving additional strength, force or stability, or additional assurance or evidence.

2. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.

Confirmed

CONFIRMED, participle passive

1. Made more firm; strengthened; established.

2. Admitted to the full privileges of the church.

Confirmedness

CONFIRMEDNESS, noun A fixed state.

Confirmer

CONFIRMER, noun He or that which confirms, establishes or ratifies; one that produces new evidence; an attester.

Confirming

CONFIRMING, participle present tense Making firm or more firm; strengthening; ratifying; giving additional evidence or proof; establishing.

Confirmingly

CONFIRMINGLY, adverb In a manner to strengthen or make firm.

Confiscable

CONFISCABLE, adjective [See Confiscate.] That may be confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

Confiscate

CONFISCATE, verb transitive [Latin , a basket, hamper or bag; hence, revenue or the Emperors treasure.] To adjudge to be forfeited to the public treasury, as the goods or estate of a traitor or other criminal, by way of penalty; or to condemn private forfeited property to public use.

The estate of the rebels was seized and confiscated.

CONFISCATE, adjective Forfeited and adjudged to the public treasury, as the goods of a criminal.

Confiscated

CONFISCATED, participle passive Adjudged to the public treasury, as forfeited goods or estate.

Confiscating

CONFISCATING, participle present tense Adjudging to the public use.

Confiscation

CONFISCATION, noun The act of condemning as forfeited, and adjudging to the public treasury; as the goods of a criminal who has committed a public offense. Ezra 7:26.

Confiscator

CONFISCATOR, noun One who confiscates.

Confiscatory

CONFISCATORY, adjective Consigning to forfeiture.

Confit

CONFIT, noun A sweetmeat. [See Confect.]

Confitent

CONFITENT, noun [Latin See Confess.] One who confesses his sins and faults. [Not much used.]

Confiture

CONFITURE, noun [Latin This word is corrupted into comfit, which is now used.] A sweetmeat; confection; comfit.

Confix

CONFIX, verb transitive [Latin , to fix, to thrust to or on. See Fix.] To fix down; to fasten.

Confixed

CONFIXED, participle passive Fixed down or to; fastened.

Confixing

CONFIXING, participle present tense Fixing to or on; fastening.

Confixure

CONFIXURE, noun The act of fastening.

Conflagrant

CONFLAGRANT, adjective [Latin , to burn. See Flagrant.] Burning together; involved in a common flame.

Conflagration

CONFLAGRATION, noun [Latin See Flagrant.]

1. A great fire or the burning of any great mass of combustibles, as a house, but more especially a city or a forest.

2. The burning of the world at the consummation of things, when the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

Conflation

CONFLATION, noun [Latin , to blow. See Blow.]

1. The act of blowing tow or more instruments together.

2. A melting or casting of metal. [Little used.]

Conflexure

CONFLEXURE, noun A bending. [Not used.]

Conflict

CONFLICT, noun [Latin , to strike, to flog, to lick.]

1. A striking or dashing against each other, as of two moving bodies in opposition; violent collision of substances; as a conflict of elements, or waves; a conflict of particles in ebulltion.

2. A fighting; combat, as between men, and applicable to individuals or to armies; as, the conflict was long and desperate.

3. Contention; strife; contest.

In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off.

4. Struggling with difficulties; a striving to oppose, or overcome.

The good man has a perpetual conflict with his evil propensities.

5. A struggling of the mind; distress; anxiety. Colossians 2:1.

6. The last struggle of life; agony; as the conflict with death.

7. Opposing operations; countervailing action; collision; opposition.

In exercising the right of freemen, the man of religion experiences no conflict between his duty and his inclination.

CONFLICT, verb intransitive

1. To strike or dash against; to meet and oppose, as bodies driven by violence; as conflicting waves or elements.

2. To drive or strike against, as contending men, or armies; to fight; to contend with violence; as conflicting armies.

3. To strive or struggle to resist and overcome; as men conflicting with difficulties.

4. To be in opposition or contradictory.

The laws of the United States and of the individual States, may, in some cases, conflict with each other.

Conflicting

CONFLICTING, participle present tense

1. Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.

2. Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.

In the absence of all conflicting evidence.

Confluence

CONFLUENCE, noun [Latin , to flow. See Flow.]

1. A flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams of water, or other fluid; also, the place of meeting; as the confluence of the Tigris and the Frat, or of the Ohio and Mississippi.

2. The running together of people; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; a crowd; a concourse; the latter word is more generally used.

3. A collection; meeting; assemblage.

Confluent

CONFLUENT, adjective [Latin]

1. Flowing together; meeting in their course, as two streams; as confluent streams.

2. In medical science, running together, and spreading over a large surface of the body; as the confluent small-pox.

3. In botany, united at the base; growing in tufts, as confluent leaves; running into each other, as confluent lobes.

Conflux

CONFLUX, noun [Latin See Confluence.]

1. A flowing together; a meeting of two or more currents of a fluid.

2. A collection; a crowd; a multitude collected; as a general conflux of people.

Confluxibility

CONFLUXIBILITY, noun The tendency of fluids to run together. [Little used.]

Conform

CONFORM, adjective [Latin , form.] Made to resemble; assuming the same form; like; resembling. [Little used.]

CONFORM, verb transitive [Latin , to form, or shape, form.]

1. To make like, in external appearance; to reduce to a like shape, or form, with something else; with to; as, to conform any thing to a model.

2. More generally, to reduce to a likeness or correspondence in manners, opinions or moral qualities.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. Romans 8:29.

Be not conformed to this world. Romans 12:2.

3. To make agreeable to; to square with a rule or directory.

Demand of them why they conform not themselves to the order of the church?

CONFORM, verb intransitive

1. To comply with or yield to; to live or act according to; as, to conform to the fashion or to custom.

2. To comply with; to obey; as, to conform to the laws of the state.

Conformable

CONFORMABLE, adjective

1. Correspondent; having the same or similar external form, or shape; like; resembling; as an edifice conformable to a model or draft.

2. Having the same or similar manners, opinions or moral qualities.

The Gentiles were not made conformable to the Jews, in that which was to cease at the coming of Christ.

3. Agreeable; suitable; consistent; as, nature is conformable to herself.

4. Compliant; ready to follow directions; submissive; obsequious; peaceable; disposed to obey.

I have been to you a true and humble wife, At all time to your will conformable

It is generally followed by to, but good writers have used with. In its etymological sense, that may be conformed, capable of being conformed, it seems not to be used.

Conformably

CONFORMABLY, adverb With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.

Let us settle, in our own minds, what rules to pursue and act conformably

Conformation

CONFORMATION, noun

1. The manner in which a body is formed; the particular texture or structure of a body, or disposition of the parts which compose it; form; structure; often with relation to some other body, and with adaptation to some purpose or effect.

Light of different colors is reflected from bodies, according to their different conformation Varieties of sound depend on the conformation of the organs.

2. The act of conforming; the act of producing suitableness, or conformity; with to; as the conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion.

3. In medical science, the particular make or construction of the body peculiar to an individual; as a good or bad conformation

Conformed

CONFORMED, participle passive Made to resemble; reduced to a likeness of; made agreeable to; suited.

Conformer

CONFORMER, noun One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.

Conforming

CONFORMING, participle present tense Reducing to a likeness; adapting; complying with.

Conformist

CONFORMIST, noun One who conforms or complies; appropriately, one who complies with the worship of the church of England or of the established church, as distinguished from a dissenter, or nonconformist.

Conformity

CONFORMITY, noun

1. Likeness; correspondence with a model in form or manner; resemblance; agreement; congruity with something else; followed by to or with.

A ship is constructed in conformity to a model, or in conformity with a model.

True happiness consists in conformity of life to the divine law.

2. Consistency; agreement.

Many instances prove the conformity of the essay with the notions of Hippocrates.

3. In theology, correspondence in manners and principles; compliance with customs.

Live no in conformity with the world.

Confortation

CONFORTATION, noun [See Comfort.] The act of comforting or giving strength. [Not used.]

Confound

CONFOUND, verb transitive [Latin , to pour out. Literally, to pour or throw together.]

1. To mingle and blend different things, so that their forms or natures cannot be distinguished; to mix in a mass or crowd, so that individuals cannot be distinguished.

2. To throw into disorder.

Let us go down, and there confound their language. Genesis 11:7.

3. To mix or blend, so as to occasion a mistake of one thing for another.

A fluid body and a wetting liquor, because they agree in many things, are wont to be confounded.

Men may confound ideas with words.

4. To perplex; to disturb the apprehension by indistinctness of ideas or words.

Men may confound each other by unintelligible terms or wrong application of words.

5. To abash; to throw the mind into disorder; to cast down; to make ashamed.

Be thou confounde and ber thy shame. Ezekiel 16:52.

Saul confounded the Jews at Damascus. Acts 9:22.

6. To perplex with terror; to terrify; to dismay; to astonish; to throw into consternation; to stupify with amazement.

So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood a while as mute confounded what to say.

The multitude came together and were confounded. Acts 2:6.

7. To destroy; to overthrow.

So deep a malice to confound the race of mankind in one root.

Confounded

CONFOUNDED, participle passive

1. Mixed or blended in disorder; perplexed; abashed; dismayed; put to shame and silence; astonished.

2. Enormous; as a confounded tory. [Vulgar.]

Confoundedly

CONFOUNDEDLY, adverb Enormously; greatly; shamefully; as, he was confoundedly avaricious. [A low word.]

Confoundedness

CONFOUNDEDNESS, noun The state of being confounded.

Confounder

CONFOUNDER, noun One who confounds; one who disturbs the mind, perplexes, refutes, frustrates and puts to shame or silence; one who terrifies.

Confounding

CONFOUNDING, participle present tense Mixing and blending; putting into disorder; perplexing; disturbing the mind; abashing, and putting to shame and silence; astonishing.

Confraternity

CONFRATERNITY, noun [Latin , fraternity, brother.] A brotherhood; a society or body of men, united for some purpose or in some profession; as the confraternity of Jesuits.

Confrication

CONFRICATION, noun [Latin , to rub. See Friction.] A rubbing against; friction.

Confrier

CONFRIER, noun One of the same religious order.

Confront

CONFRONT, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To stand face to face in full view; to face; to stand in front.

He spoke and then confronts the bull.

2. To stand in direct opposition; to oppose.

The East and West churches did both confront the Jews, and concur with them.

3. To set face to face; to bring into the presence of; as a accused person and a witness, in court, for examination and discovery of the truth; followed by with.

The witnesses are confronted with the accused, the accused with one another, or the witnesses with one another.

4. To set together for comparison; to compare one thing with another.

When I confront a medal with a verse, I only show you the same design executed by different hands.

Confrontation

CONFRONTATION, noun The act of bringing two persons into the presence of each other for examination and discovery of truth.

Confronted

CONFRONTED, participle passive Set face to face, or in opposition; brought into the presence of.

Confronting

CONFRONTING, participle present tense Setting or standing face to face, or in opposition, or in presence of.

Confuse

CONFUSE, verb transitive [Latin See Confound.]

1. To mix or blend things, so that they cannot be distinguished.

Stunning sounds and voices all confused.

Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise. Isaiah 9:5.

2. To disorder; as, a sudden alarm confused the troops; a careless bookkeeper has confused the accounts.

3. To perplex; to render indistinct; as, the clamor confused his ideas.

4. To throw the mind into disorder; to cast down or abash; to cause to blush; to agitate by surprise, or shame; to disconcert.

A sarcastic remark confused the gentleman and he could not proceed in his argument.

CONFUSEd and sadly she at length replied.

Confused

CONFUSED, participle passive

1. Mixed; blended, so that the things or persons mixed cannot be distinguished.

Some cried one thing, and some another; for the assembly was confused Acts 19:32.

2. Perplexed by disorder, or want of system; as a confused account.

3. Abashed; put to the blush or to shame; agitated; disconcerted.

Confusedly

CONFUSEDLY, adverb In a mixed mass; without order or separation; indistinctly; not clearly; tumultuously; with agitation of mind; without regularity or system.

Confusedness

CONFUSEDNESS, noun A state of being confused; want of order, distinction or clearness.

The cause of the confusedness of our notions is want of attention.

Confusion

CONFUSION, noun

1. In a general sense, a mixture of several things promiscuously; hence, disorder; irregularity; as the confusion of tongues at Babel.

2. Tumult; want of order in society.

The whole city was filled with confusion Acts 19:29.

God is not the author of confusion 1 Corinthians 14:33.

3. A blending or confounding; indistinct combination; opposed to distinctness or perspicuity; as a confusion of ideas.

4. Abashment; shame.

O Lord, let me never be put to confusion Psalms 71:1.

We lie in shame and our confusion covereth us. Jeremiah 3:25.

5. Astonishment; agitation; perturbation; distraction of mind.

CONFUSION dwelt in every face.

6. Overthrow; defeat; ruin.

The makers of idols shall go to confusion together. Isaiah 45:16.

7. A shameful blending of natures, a shocking crime. Leviticus 18:23, 20:12.

Confutable

CONFUTABLE, adjective [See Confute.] That may be confuted, disproved or overthrown; that may be shown to be false, defective or invalid; as, an argument or a course of reasoning is confutable

Confutant

CONFUTANT, noun One who confutes or undertakes to confute.

Confutation

CONFUTATION, noun The act of confuting, disproving, or proving to be false, or invalid; refutation; overthrow; as of arguments, opinions, reasoning, theory, or error.

Confute

CONFUTE, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To disprove; to prove to be false, defective or invaled; to overthrow; as, to confute arguments, reasoning, theory, error.

2. To prove to be wrong; to convict of error, by argument or proof; as, to confute an advocate at the bar; to confute a writer.

Confuted

CONFUTED, participle passive Disproved; proved to be false, defective or unsound; overthrown by argument, fact or proof.

Confuter

CONFUTER, noun One who disproves, or confutes.

Confuting

CONFUTING, participle present tense Disproving; proving to be false, defective or invalid; overthrowing by argument or proof.

Conge

CONGE, noun [Latin]

1. Leave; farewell; parting ceremony.

2. The act of respect performed at the parting of friends. Hence, the customary act of civility, on other occasions; a bow or a courtesy.

The captain salutes you with conge profound.

CONGE, verb intransitive To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy. The preterite congeed is tolerable in English; but congeing will not be admitted, and congeeing is an anomaly.

CONGE delire, in ecclesiastical affairs, the kings license or permission to a dean and chapter, to choose a bishop; or to an abbey or priory of his own foundation, to choose their abbot or prior. The king of Great Britain, as sovereign patron, had formerly the appointment of all ecclesiastical dignities; investing by crosier and ring, and afterwards by letters patent. But now the king, on demand, sends, his conge delire to the dean and chapter, with a letter missive, containing the name of the person he would have them elect, and if they delay the election twelve days, the nomination devolves on the king, who may appoint by letters patent.

CONGE, noun In architecture, a mold in form of a quarter round, or a cavetto, which serves to separate two members from one another; such as that which joins the shaft of the column to the cincture, called also apophyge. Also, a ring or ferrule, formerly used on the extremities of columns to keep them from splitting; afterwards imitated in stone-work.

Congeal

CONGEAL, verb transitive [Latin , to freeze, has the elements of cool, but it may be a different word.]

1. To change from a fluid to a solid sate, as by cold, or a loss of heat, as water in freezing, liquid metal or wax in cooling, blood in stagnating or cooling, etc.; to harden into ice, or into a substance of less solidity. Cold congeals water into ice, or vapor into hoar frost or snow, and blood into a less solid mass, or clot.

2. To bind or fix with cold. Applied to the circulating blood, it does not signify absolutely to harden, but to cause a sensation of cold, a shivering, or a receding of the blood from the extremities; as, the frightful scene congealed his blood.

CONGEAL, verb intransitive To grow hard, stiff or thick; to pass from a fluid to a solid state; to concrete into a solid mass. Melted lead congelas; water congeals; blood congeals.

Congealable

CONGEALABLE, adjective That may be congealed; capable of being converted from a fluid to a solid state.

Congealed

CONGEALED, participle passive Converted into ice, or a solid mass, by the loss of heat or other process; concreted.

Congealing

CONGEALING, participle present tense Changing from a liquid to a solid state; concreting.

Congealment

CONGEALMENT, noun A clot or concretion; that which is formed by congelation. Also, congelation.

Congelation

CONGELATION, noun [Latin] The process of passing, or the act of converting, from a fluid to a solid state; or the state of being congealed; concretion. It differ from crystalization in this; in congelation the whole substance of a fluid may become solid; in crystalization, when a salt is formed, a portion of liquid is left. But the congelation of water is a real crystalization.

Congener

CONGENER, noun [Latin , kind, race.] A thing of the same kind or nature.

The cherry tree has been often grafted on the laurel, to which it is a congener

CONGENER, CONGENEROUS, adjective Of the same kind or nature; allied in origin or cause; as congenerous bodies; congenerous diseases.

Congeneracy

CONGENERACY, noun Similarity of origin.

Congeneric

CONGENERIC, adjective Being of the same kind or nature.

Congenerousness

CONGENEROUSNESS, noun The quality of being from the same original, or of belonging to the same class.

Congenial

CONGENIAL, adjective [Latin See Generate.]

1. Partaking of the same genus, kind or nature; kindred; cognate; as congenial souls.

2. Belonging to the nature; natural; agreeable to the nature; usually followed by to; as, this severity is not congenial to him.

3. Natural; agreeable to the nature; adapted; as a soil congenial to a plant.

Congeniality

CONGENIALITY, CONGENIALNESS, noun Participation of the same genus, nature or original; cognation; natural affinity; suitableness.

Congenialness

CONGENIALITY, CONGENIALNESS noun Participation of the same genus, nature or original; cognation; natural affinity; suitableness.

Congenital

CONGENITE, CONGENITAL adjective [Latin , born, to beget, to be born.] Of the same birth; born with another; connate; begotten together.

Congenite

CONGENITE, CONGENITAL, adjective [Latin , born, to beget, to be born.] Of the same birth; born with another; connate; begotten together.

Many conclusions of moral and intellectual truths seem to be congenite with us.

Native or congenital varieties of animals.

Conger

CONGER, noun [Latin , Gr. ] The sea-eel; a large species of eel, sometimes growing to the length of ten feet, and weighing a hundred pounds. In Cornwall, England, it is an article of commerce, being shipped to Spain and Portugal.

Congeries

CONGERIES, noun [Latin , to bring together, to amass; to bear.] A collection of several particles or bodies in one mass or aggregate.

Congest

CONGEST, verb transitive [Latin , to bear.] To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate.

Congestible

CONGESTIBLE, adjective That may be collected into a mass.

Congestion

CONGESTION, noun [Latin] A collection of humors in an animal body, hardened into a tumor. An accumulation of blood in a part.

Congiary

CONGIARY, noun [Latin] Properly, a present made by the Roman emperors to the people; originally in corn or wine measured out to them in a congius, a vessel holding a gallon or rather more. In present usage, a gift or a donative represented on a medal.

Conglaciate

CONGLACIATE, verb intransitive [Latin , to freeze; ice.] To turn to ice; to freeze.

Conglaciation

CONGLACIATION, noun The act of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation.

Conglobate

CONGLOBATE, adjective [Latin , to collect or to make round; a ball. See Globe.] Formed or gathered into a ball. A conglobate gland is a single or lymphatic gland, a small smooth body, covered in a fine skin, admitting only an artery and a lymphatic vessel to pass in, and a vein and a lymphatic vessel to pass out.

CONGLOBATE, verb transitive To collect or form into a ball or hard, round substance.

Conglobated

CONGLOBATED, participle passive Collected or formed into a ball.

Conglobately

CONGLOBATELY, adverb In a round or roundish form.

Conglobation

CONGLOBATION, noun The act of forming into a ball; a round body.

Conglobe

CONGLOBE, verb transitive [Latin , a round body.] To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.

CONGLOBE, verb intransitive To collect, unite or coalesce in a round mass.

Conglobed

CONGLOBED, participle passive Collected into a ball.