Conglobing – Consequentness

Conglobing

CONGLOBING, participle present tense Gathering into a round mass or ball.

Conglobulate

CONGLOBULATE, verb intransitive To gather into a little round mass, or globule.

Conglomerate

CONGLOMERATE, adjective [Latin , to wind into a ball, a ball, a clew. See Glomerate.]

1. Gathered into a ball or round body. A conglomerate gland is composed of many smaller glands, whose excretory ducts unite in a common one, as the live, kidneys, pancreas, parotids, etc. Each little granulated portion furnishes a small tube, which unites with other similar ducts, to form the common excretory duct of the gland.

2. In botany, conglomerate flowers grow on a branching peduncle or foot stalk, on short pedicles, closely compacted together without order; opposed to diffused.

3. conglomerate rocks. [See Puddingstone.]

CONGLOMERATE, verb transitive To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a round mass.

CONGLOMERATE, noun In mineralogy, a sort of pudding-stone, or coarse sandstone, composed of pebbles of quartz, flint, siliceous slate, etc.

Conglomerated

CONGLOMERATED, participle passive Gathered into a ball or round mass.

Conglomerating

CONGLOMERATING, participle present tense Collecting into a ball.

Conglomeration

CONGLOMERATION, noun The act of gathering into a ball; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation.

Conglutinant

CONGLUTINANT, adjective [See Conglutinate.] Gluing; uniting; healing.

CONGLUTINANT, noun A medicine that heals wounds.

Conglutinate

CONGLUTINATE, verb transitive [Latin , glue. See Glue.]

1. To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance.

2. To heal; to unite the separated parts of a wound by tenacious substance.

CONGLUTINATE, verb intransitive To coalesce; to unite by the intervention of a callus.

Conglutinated

CONGLUTINATED, participle passive Glued together; united by a tenacious substance.

Conglutinating

CONGLUTINATING, participle present tense Gluing together; uniting or closing by a tenacious substance.

Conglutination

CONGLUTINATION, noun The act of gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; a healing by uniting the parts of a wound; union.

Conglutinative

CONGLUTINATIVE, adjective Having the power of uniting by glue or other substance of like nature.

Conglutinatore

CONGLUTINATORE, noun That which has the power of uniting wounds.

Congo

CONGO, noun A species of tea in China.

Congratulant

CONGRATULANT, adjective Rejoicing in participation.

Congratulate

CONGRATULATE, verb transitive [Latin , grateful, pleasing. See Grace.] To profess ones pleasure or joy to another on account of an event deemed happy or fortunate, as on the birth of a child, success in an enterprise, victory, escape from danger, etc.; to wish joy to another. We congratulate the nation on the restoration of peace.

Formerly this verb was followed by to. The subjects of England may congratulate to themselves. But this use of to is entirely obsolete. The use of with after this verb, I congratulate with my country, is perhaps less objectionable, but is rarely used. The intransitive sense of the verb may therefore be considered as antiquated, and no longer legitimate.

Congratulated

CONGRATULATED, participle passive Complimented with expressions of joy at a happy event.

Congratulating

CONGRATULATING, participle present tense Professing ones joy or satisfaction on account of some happy event, prosperity or success.

Congratulation

CONGRATULATION, noun The act of professing ones joy or satisfaction on account of some happy event, prosperity or success.

CONGRATULATION, noun The act of professing ones joy or good wishes at the success or happiness of another, or on account of an event deemed fortunate to both parties or to the community.

Congratulator

CONGRATULATOR, noun One who offers congratulation.

Congratulatory

CONGRATULATORY, adjective Expressing joy for the good fortune of another, or for an event fortunate for both parties or for the community.

Congree

CONGREE, verb intransitive To agree. [Not in use.]

Congreet

CONGREET, verb transitive To salute mutually. [Not in use.]

Congregate

CONGREGATE, verb transitive [Latin , a herd. See Gregarious.] To collect separate persons or things into an assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a crowd or united body; as, to congregate men or animals; to congregate waters or sands.

CONGREGATE, verb intransitive To come together; to assemble; to meet.

Equals with equals often congregate

CONGREGATE, adjective Collected; compact; close. [Little used.]

Congregated

CONGREGATED, participle passive Collected; assembled in one place.

Congregating

CONGREGATING, participle present tense Collecting; assembling; coming together.

Congregation

CONGREGATION, noun

1. The act of bringing together, or assembling.

2. A collection or assemblage of separate things; as a congregation of vapors.

3. More generally, an assembly or persons; and appropriately, an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction.

4. An assembly of rulers. Numbers 35:12.

5. An assembly of ecclesiastics or cardinals appointed by the pope; as the congregation of the holy office, etc. Also, a company or society of religious cantoned out of an order.

6. An academical assembly for transacting business of the university.

Congregational

CONGREGATIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a congregation; appropriately used of such Christians as hold to church government by consent and election, maintaining that each congregation is independent of others, and has the right to choose its own pastor and govern itself; as a congregational church, or mode of worship.

Congregationalism

CONGREGATIONALISM, noun Ecclesiastical government in the hands of each church, as an independent body.

Congregationalist

CONGREGATIONALIST, noun One who belongs to a congregational church or society; one who holds to the independence of each congregation or church of Christians, in the right of electing a pastor, and in governing the church.

Congress

CONGRESS, noun [Latin , to come together; to go or step; a step. See Grade and Degree.]

1. A meeting of individuals; an assembly of envoys, commissioners, deputies, etc., particularly a meeting of the representatives of several courts, to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust their mutual concerns.

2. The assembly of delegates of the several British Colonies in America, which united to resist the claims of Great Britain in 1774, and which declared the colonies independent.

3. The assembly of the delegates of the several United States, after the declaration of Independence, and until the adoption of the present constitution, and the organization of the government in 1789. During these periods, the congress consisted of one house only.

4. The assembly of senators and representatives of the several states of North America, according to the present constitution, or political compact, by which they are united in a federal republic; the legislature of the United States, consisting of two houses, a senate and a house of representatives. Members of the senate are elected for six years, but the members of the house of representatives are chosen for two years only. Hence the united body of senators and representatives for the two years , during which the representatives hold their seats is called one congress Thus we say the first or second session of the sixteenth congress

5. A meeting of two or more persons in a contest; an encounter; a conflict.

6. The meeting of the sexes in sexual commerce.

Congression

CONGRESSION, noun A company. [Not in use.]

Congressional

CONGRESSIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a congress, or to the congress of the United States; as congressional debates.

The congressional institution of Amphictyons in Greece.

Congressive

CONGRESSIVE, adjective

1. Meeting, as the sexes.

2. Encountering.

Congrue

CONGRUE, verb intransitive To agree. [Not used.]

Congruence

CONGRUENCE, CONGRUENCY, noun [Latin , to agree, or suit.] Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.

Congruency

CONGRUENCE, CONGRUENCY noun [Latin , to agree, or suit.] Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.

Congruent

CONGRUENT, adjective Suitable; agreeing; correspondent.

Congruity

CONGRUITY, noun

1. Suitableness; the relation of agreement between things.

There is no congruity between a mean subject and a lofty style; but an obvious congruity between an elevated station and dignified deportment.

2. Fitness, pertinence.

A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting a particle.

3. Reason; consistency; propriety.

4. In school divinity, the good actions which are supposed to render it meet and equitable that God should confer grace on those who perform them. The merit of congruity is a sort of imperfect qualification for the gift and reception of Gods grace.

5. In geometry, figures or lines, which when laid over one another, exactly correspond, are in congruity

Congruous

CONGRUOUS, adjective [Latin]

1. Suitable; consistent; agreeable to. Light airy music and a solemn or mournful occasion are not congruous Obedience to God is congruous to the light of reason.

2. Rational; fit.

It is not congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth.

Congruously

CONGRUOUSLY, adverb Suitably; pertinently; agreeably; consistently.

Conic

CONIC, CONICAL, adjective [Latin , Gr., See Cone.]

Conical

CONIC, CONICAL adjective [Latin , Gr., See Cone.]

1. Having the form of a cone; round and decreasing to a point; as a conic figure; a CONICAL vessel

2. Pertaining to a cone; as conic sections.

Conic Section, a curve line formed by the intersection of a cone and plane. The conic sections are the parabola, hyperbola, and ellipsis.

Conically

CONICALLY, adverb In the form of a cone.

Conicalness

CONICALNESS, noun The state or quality of being conical.

Conics

CONICS, noun That part of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise form its sections.

Coniferous

CONIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , to bear.] Bearing cones; producing hard, dry, scaly seed-vessels of a conical figure, as the pine, fir, cypress and beech.

Coniform

CONIFORM, adjective [cone and form.] In form of a cone; conical; as a coniform mountain of Potosi.

Conite

CONITE, noun [Gr., dust.] A mineral of an ash or greenish gray color, which becomes brown by exposure to the air, occurring massive or stalactitic; found in Saxony and in Iceland.

Conject

CONJECT, verb transitive To throw together, or to throw. [Not used.]

CONJECT, verb intransitive To guess. [Not used.]

Conjector

CONJECTOR, noun [Latin , to cast together; to throw.] One who guesses or conjectures. [See Conjecture.]

Conjecturable

CONJECTURABLE, adjective That may be guessed or conjectured.

Conjectural

CONJECTURAL, adjective Depending on conjecture; done or said by guess; as a conjectural opinion.

Conjecturally

CONJECTURALLY, adverb Without proof, or evidence; by conjecture; by guess; as, this opinion was given conjecturally

Conjecture

CONJECTURE, noun [Latin , See Conjector.]

1. Literally, a casting or throwing together of possible or probable events; or a casting of the mind to something future, or something past but unknown; a guess, formed on a supposed possibility or probability of a fact, or on slight evidence; preponderance of opinion without proof; surmise. We speak of future or unknown things by conjecture and of probable or unfounded conjectures.

2. Idea; notion.

CONJECTURE, verb transitive To guess; to judge by guess, or by the probability or the possibility of a fact, or by very slight evidence; to form an opinion at random. What will be the issue of a war, we may conjecture but cannot know. He conjectured that some misfortune had happened.

Conjectured

CONJECTURED, participle passive Guessed; surmised.

Conjecturer

CONJECTURER, noun One who guesses; a guesser; one who forms or utters an opinion without proof.

Conjecturing

CONJECTURING, participle present tense Guessing; surmising.

Conjoin

CONJOIN, verb transitive [Latin , to join. See Join.]

1. To join together, without any thing intermediate; to unite two or more persons or things in close connection; as, to conjoin friends; to conjoin man and woman in marriage.

2. To associate, or connect.

Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already.

CONJOIN, verb intransitive To unite; to join; to league.

Conjoined

CONJOINED, participle passive Joined to or with; united; associated.

Conjoining

CONJOINING, participle present tense Joining together; uniting; connecting.

Conjoint

CONJOINT, adjective United; connected; associate.

CONJOINT degrees, in music, two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale; as ut and re.

CONJOINT tetrachords, two tetrachords or fourths, where the same chord is the highest of one and the lowest of the other.

Conjointly

CONJOINTLY, adverb Jointly; unitedly; in union; together.

Conjugal

CONJUGAL, adjective [Latin , marriage; to yoke or couple. See Join and Yoke.]

1. Belonging to marriage; matrimonial; connubial; as conjugal relation; conjugal ties.

2. Suitable to the married state; becoming a husband in relation to his consort, or a consort in relation to her husband; as conjugal affection.

Conjugally

CONJUGALLY, adverb Matrimonially; connubially.

Conjugate

CONJUGATE, verb transitive [Latin , to couple; to yoke, to marry. See Join and Yoke.]

1. To join; to unite in marriage. [Not now used.]

2. In grammar, to distribute the parts or inflections of a verb, into the several voices, modes, tenses, numbers and persons, so as to show their connections, distinctions, and modes of formation. Literally, to connect all the inflectious of a verb, according to their derivation, or all the variations of one verb. In English, as the verb undergoes few variations, conjugation consists chiefly in combining the words which unitedly form the several tenses in the several persons.

CONJUGATE, noun A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.

We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.

CONJUGATE, adjective In botany, a conjugate leaf is a pinnate leaf which has only one pair of leaflets; a conjugate raceme has two racemes only, united by a common peduncle.

CONJUGATE diameter or axis, in geometry, a right line bisecting the transverse diameter; the shortest of the two diameters of an ellipses.

Conjugation

CONJUGATION, noun [Latin]

1. A couple or pair; as a conjugation of nerves. [Little used.]

2. The act of uniting or compiling; union; assemblage.

3. In grammar, the distribution of the several inflections or variations of a verb, in their different voices, modes, tenses, numbers and persons; a connected scheme of all the derivative forms of a verb.

Conjunct

CONJUNCT, adjective [Latin See Conjoin.] Conjoined; united; concurrent.

Conjunction

CONJUNCTION, noun [Latin See Conjoin.]

1. Union; connection; association by treaty or otherwise.

2. In astronomy, the meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter with Saturn.

3. In grammar, a connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to unite sentences or the clauses of a sentence and words, joining two or more simple sentences into one compound one, and continuing it at the pleasure of the writer or speaker.

This book cost one dollar and ten cents.

God called the light day and the darkness he called night.

Virtue and vice are not compatible.

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. Proverbs 5:1.

4. The copulation of the sexes.

Conjunctive

CONJUNCTIVE, adjective

1. Closely united.

2. Uniting; serving to unite.

3. In grammar, the conjunctive mode is that which follows a conjunction, or expresses some condition, or contingency. It is more generally called subjunctive.

Conjunctively

CONJUNCTIVELY, adverb In conjunction, or union; together.

Conjunctiveness

CONJUNCTIVENESS, noun The quality of conjoining or uniting.

Conjunctly

CONJUNCTLY, adverb In union; jointly; together.

Conjuncture

CONJUNCTURE, noun [See Conjoin.]

1. A joining; a combination or union, as of causes, events or circumstances; as an unhappy conjuncture of affairs.

2. An occasion; a critical time, proceeding from a union of circumstances. Juncture is used in a like sense.

At that conjuncture peace was very desirable.

3. Union; connection; mode of union; as the conjunctures of letters in words.

4. Connection; union; consistency.

I was willing to grant to presbytery what with reason it can pretend to in a conjuncture with episcopacy.

Conjuration

CONJURATION, noun [See Conjure.] The act of using certain words or ceremonies to obtain the aid of a superior being; the act of summoning in a sacred name; the practice of arts to expel evil spirits, allay storms, or perform supernatural or extraordinary acts.

Conjure

CONJURE, verb transitive [Latin , to swear together, to conspire.]

1. To call on or summon by a sacred name, or in a solemn manner; to implore with solemnity. It seems originally to have signified, to bind by an oath.

I conjure you! Let him know, whatever was done against him, Cato did it.

2. To bind two or more by an oath; to unite in a common design. Hence intransitively, to conspire. [Not usual.]

CONJURE, verb transitive To expel, to drive or to affect, in some manner, by magic arts, as by invoking the Supreme Being, or by the use of certain words, characters or ceremonies to engage supernatural influence; as, to conjure up evil spirits, or to conjure down a tempest; to conjure the stars.

Note. It is not easy to define this word, nor any word of like import; as the practices of conjurors are little known, or various and indefinite. The use of this word indicates that an oath or solemn invocation originally formed a part of the ceremonies.

CONJURE, verb intransitive

1. To practice the arts of a conjurer; to use arts to engage the aid of spirits in performing some extraordinary act.

2. In a vulgar sense, to behave very strangely; to act like a witch; to play tricks.

Conjured

CONJURED, participle passive Bound by an oath.

Conjurement

CONJUREMENT, noun Serious injunction; solemn demand.

Conjurer

CONJURER, noun One who practices conjuration; one who pretends to the secret art of performing things supernatural or extraordinary, by the aid of superior powers; an impostor who pretends, by unknown means, to discover stolen goods, etc. Hence ironically, a man of shrewd conjecture; a man of sagacity.

Conjuring

CONJURING, participle present tense Enjoining or imploring solemnly.

Connascence

CONNASCENCE, noun [Latin , to be born.]

1. The common birth of two or more at the same time; production of two or more together.

2. A being born or produced with another.

3. The act of growing together, or at the same time.

Connate

CONNATE, adjective [Latin , born.]

1. Born with another; being of the same birth; as connate notions.

2. In botany, united in origin; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as connate leaves or anthers.

Connatural

CONNATURAL, adjective [con and natural.]

1. Connected by nature; united in nature; born with another.

These affections are connatural to us, and as we grow up, so do they.

2. Participating of the same nature.

And mix with our connatural dust.

Connaturality

CONNATURALITY, noun Participation of the same nature; natural union.

Connaturally

CONNATURALLY, adverb By the act of nature; originally.

Connaturalness

CONNATURALNESS, noun Participation of the same nature; natural union.

Connect

CONNECT, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To knit or link together; to tie or fasten together, as by something intervening, or by weaving, winding or twining. Hence,

2. To join or unite; to conjoin, in almost any manner, either by junction, by any intervening means, or by order and relation. We connect letters and words in a sentence; we connect ideas in the mind; we connect arguments in a discourse. The strait of Gibraltar connects the Mediterranean with the Atlantic. A treaty connects two nations. The interests of agriculture are connected with those of commerce. Families are connected by marriage or by friendship.

CONNECT, verb intransitive To join, unite or cohere; to have a close relation. This argument connects with another. [This use is rare and not well authorized.]

Connection

CONNECTION, noun [Latin See Connect.] The act of joining or state of being joined; a state of being knit or fastened together; union by junction, by an intervening substance or medium, by dependence or relation, or by order in a series; a word of very general import. There is a connection of links in a chain; a connection between all parts of the human body; a connection between virtue and happiness, and between this life and the future; a connection between parent and child, master and servant, husband and wife; between motives and actions, and between actions and their consequences. In short, the word is applicable to almost every thing that has a dependence on or relation to another thing.

Connective

CONNECTIVE, adjective Having the power of connecting.

CONNECTIVE, noun In grammar, a word that connects other words and sentences; a conjunction. Harris uses the word for conjunctions and prepositions.

Connectively

CONNECTIVELY, adverb In union or conjunction; jointly.

Connex

CONNEX, verb transitive [Latin] To link together; to join. [Not in use.]

Connexion

CONNEXION, noun Connection. But for the sake of regular analogy, I have inserted connection, as the derivative of the English connect, and would discard connexion

Connexive

CONNEXIVE, adjective Connective; having the power to connect; uniting; conjunctive; as connexive particles. [Little used.]

Connivance

CONNIVANCE, noun [See Connive.] Properly, the act of winking. Hence figuratively, voluntary blindness to an act; intentional forbearance to see a fault or other act, generally implying consent to it.

Every vice interprets a connivance to be approbation.

Connive

CONNIVE, verb intransitive [Latin , to wink.]

1. To wink; to close and open the eyelids rapidly.

2. In a figurative sense, to close the eyes upon a fault or other act; to pretend ignorance or blindness; to forbear to see; to overlook a fault or other act, and suffer it to pass unnoticed, uncensured or unpunished; as, the father connives at the vices of his son.

Connivency

CONNIVENCY, noun Connivance, which see.

Connivent

CONNIVENT, adjective

1. Shutting the eyes; forbearing to see.

2. In anatomy, the connivent valves are those wrinkles, cellules and vascules, which are found on the inside of the two intestines, ilium and jejunum.

3. In botany, closely united; converging together.

Conniver

CONNIVER, noun One who connives.

Conniving

CONNIVING, participle present tense Closing the eyes against faults; permitting faults to pass uncensured.

Connoisseur

CONNOISSEUR, noun [Latin , to know.] A person well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge or master of any art, particularly of painting and sculpture.

Connoisseurship

CONNOISSEURSHIP, noun The skill of a connoisseur.

Connotate

CONNOTATE, verb transitive [Latin] To designate with something else; to imply. [Little used.]

Connotation

CONNOTATION, noun The act of making known or designating with something; implication of something beside itself inference. [Little used.]

Connote

CONNOTE, verb transitive [Latin , to mark. See Note.] To make known together; to imply; to denote or designate; to include. [Little used.]

Connubial

CONNUBIAL, adjective [Latin , to marry.] Pertaining to marriage; nuptial; belonging to the state of husband and wife; as, connubial rites; connubial love.

Connumeration

CONNUMERATION, noun A reckoning together.

Connusance

CONNUSANCE, noun [Latin] Knowledge. [See Cognizance.]

Connusant

CONNUSANT, adjective Knowing; informed; apprised.

A neutral vessel, breaking a blockade, is liable to confiscation, if connusant of the blockade.

Conny

CONNY, adjective Brave; fine. [Local.]

Conoid

CONOID, noun [Gr., a cone, form.]

1. In geometry, a solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis. If the conic section is a parabola, the resulting solid is a parabolic conoid or paraboloid; if a hyperbola, the solid is a hyperbolic conoid or hyperboloid; of an ellipse, an elliptic conoid a spheroid, or an ellipsoid.

2. In anatomy, a gland in the third ventricle of the brain, resembling a cone or pine-apple, and called the pineal gland.

Conoidic

CONOIDIC, CONOIDICAL, adjective Pertaining to a conoid; having the form of a conoid.

Conoidical

CONOIDIC, CONOIDICAL adjective Pertaining to a conoid; having the form of a conoid.

Conquassate

CONQUASSATE, verb transitive [Latin] To shake. [Little used.]

Conquer

CONQUER, verb transitive

1. To subdue; to reduce, by physical force, till resistance is no longer made; to overcome; to vanquish. Alexander conquered Asia. The Romans conquered Carthage.

2. To gain by force; to win; to take possession by violent means; to gain dominion or sovereignty over, as the subduing of the power of an enemy generally implies possession of the person or thing subdued by the conqueror. Thus, a king or an army conquers a country, or a city, which is afterward restored.

3. To subdue opposition or resistance of the will by moral force; to overcome by argument, persuasion or other influence.

Anna conquers but to save, and governs but to bless.

He went forth conquering, and to conquer Revelations. 6.

4. To overcome, as difficulties; to surmount, as obstacles; to subdue whatever opposes; as, to conquer the passions; to conquer reluctance.

5. To gain or obtain by effort; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer peace; a French application of the word.

CONQUER, verb intransitive To overcome; to gain the victory.

The champions resolved to conquer or to die.

Conquerable

CONQUERABLE, adjective That may be conquered, overcome or subdued.

Conquered

CONQUERED, participle passive Overcome; subdued; vanquished; gained; won.

Conqueress

CONQUERESS, noun A female who conquers; a victorious female.

Conquering

CONQUERING, participle present tense Overcoming; subduing; vanquishing; obtaining.

Conqueror

CONQUEROR, noun One who conquers; one who gains a victory; one who subdues and brings into subjection or possession, by force or by influence. The man who defeats his antagonist in combat is a conqueror as is the general or admiral who defeats his enemy.

Conquest

CONQUEST, noun [The primary sense is to seek, to press or drive towards.]

1. The act of conquering; the act of overcoming or vanquishing opposition by force, physical or moral. Applied to persons, territory and the like, it usually implies or includes a taking possession of; as the conquest of Canada by the British troops. So we speak of the heart, the passions, or the will.

2. Victory; success in arms; the overcoming of opposition.

In joys of conquest he resigns his breath.

3. That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral; as, Jamaica was a valuable conquest for England.

4. In a feudal sense, acquest; acquisition; the acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance, or the acquisition of property by a number in community or by one for all the others.

5. In the law of nations, the acquisition of sovereignty by force of arms.

The right of conquest is derived from the laws of war.

6. The act of gaining or regaining by effort; as the conquest of liberty or peace; a French phrase.

Consanguineous

CONSANGUINEOUS, adjective [Latin , infra.] Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

Consanguinity

CONSANGUINITY, noun [Latin , blood.] The relation of persons by blood; the relation or connection of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage. It is lineal or collateral.

Conscience

CONSCIENCE, noun [Latin , to know, to be privy to.]

1. Internal or self-knowledge, or judgment of right and wrong; or the faculty, power or principle within us, which decides on the lawfulness or unlawfulness of our own actions and affections, and instantly approves or condemns them. conscience is called by some writers the moral sense, and considered as an original faculty of our nature. Others question the propriety of considering conscience as a distinct faculty or principle. The consider it rather as the general principle of moral approbation or disapprobation, applied to ones own conduct and affections; alledging that our notions of right and wrong are not to be deduced from a single principle or faculty, but from various powers of the understanding and will.

Being convicted by their own conscience they went out one by one. John 8:9.

The conscience manifests itself in the feeling of obligation we experience, which precedes, attends and follows our actions.

CONSCIENCE is first occupied in ascertaining our duty, before we proceed to action; then in judging of our actions when performed.

2. The estimate or determination of conscience; justice; honesty.

What you require cannot, in conscience be deferred.

3. Real sentiment; private thought; truth; as, do you in conscience believe the story?

4. Consciousness; knowledge of our own actions or thought.

The sweetest cordial we receive at last, is conscience of our virtuous actions past.

[This primary sense of the word is nearly, perhaps wholly obsolete.]

5. Knowledge of the actions of others.

6. In ludicrous language, reason or reasonableness.

Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience as many as you should require.

To make conscience or a matter of conscience is to act according to the dictates of conscience or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.

Court of conscience a court established for the recovery of small debts in London and other trading cities and districts.

Conscienced

CONSCIENCED, adjective Having conscience.

Conscient

CONSCIENT, Conscious. [Not used.]

Conscientious

CONSCIENTIOUS, adjective

1. Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; as a conscientious judge.

2. Regulated by conscience; according to the dictates of conscience; as a conscientious probity.

Conscientiously

CONSCIENTIOUSLY, adverb According to the direction of conscience; with a strict regard to right and wrong. A man may err conscientiously

Conscientiousness

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, noun A scrupulous regard to the decisions of conscience; a sense of justice, and strict conformity to its dictates.

All his conduct seemed marked with an exact and unvarying conscientiousness

Conscionable

CONSCIONABLE, adjective According to conscience; reasonable; just.

Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction.

Conscionableness

CONSCIONABLENESS, noun Reasonableness; equity.

Conscionably

CONSCIONABLY, adverb In a manner agreeable to conscience; reasonably; justly.

Conscious

CONSCIOUS, adjective [Latin]

1. Possessing the faculty or power of knowing ones own thoughts or mental operations. Thus, man is a conscious being.

2. Knowing from memory, or without extraneous information; as, I am not conscious of the fact.

The damsel than to Tancred sent, who, conscious of the occasion, feared the event.

3. Knowing by conscience, or internal perception or persuasion; as, I am not conscious of having given any offense. Sometimes followed by to; as, I am not conscious to myself.

Aeneas only, conscious to the sign, presaged the event. So we say, conscious of innocence, or of ignorance, or of a crime.

Consciously

CONSCIOUSLY, adverb With knowledge of ones own mental operations or actions.

If these perceptions, with their consciousness, always remained in the mind, the same thinking thing would be always consciously present.

Consciousness

CONSCIOUSNESS, noun

1. The knowledge of sensations and mental operations, or of what passes in ones own mind; the act of the mind which makes known an internal object.

CONSCIOUSNESS of our sensation, and consciousness of our existence, seem to be simultaneous.

CONSCIOUSNESS must be an essential attribute of spirit.

2. Internal sense or knowledge of guilt or innocence.

A man may betray his consciousness of guilt by his countenance.

3. Certain knowledge from observation or experience.

Conscript

CONSCRIPT, adjective [Latin , to enroll; to write.] Written; enrolled; as conscript fathers, the senators of Rome, so called because their names were written in the register of the senate.

CONSCRIPT, noun [Latin] An enrolled soldier; a word used in France.

Conscription

CONSCRIPTION, noun [Latin]

1. An enrolling or registering.

2. Soldiers or forces levied by enrolling.

Consecrate

CONSECRATE, verb transitive [Latin , to consecrate sacred. See Sacred.]

1. To make or declare to be sacred, by certain ceremonies or rites; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service and worship of God; as, to consecrate a church.

Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. Exodus 29:9.

All the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated to the Lord. Joshua 6:19.

2. To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.

3. To set apart and bless the elements in the eucharist.

4. To render venerable; to make respected; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.

CONSECRATE, adjective Sacred; consecrated; devoted; dedicated.

They were assembled in that consecrate place.

[This word is now seldom used, unless in poetry.]

Consecrated

CONSECRATED, participle passive Made sacred by ceremonies or solemn rites; separated from a common to a sacred use; devoted or dedicated to the service and worship of God; made venerable.

Consecrating

CONSECRATING, participle present tense Making sacred; appropriating to a sacred use; dedicating to the service of God; devoting; rendering venerable.

Consecration

CONSECRATION, noun

1. The act or ceremony of separating form a common to a sacred use, or of devoting and dedicating a person or thing to the service and worship of God, by certain rites or solemnities. consecration does not make a person or thing really holy, but declares it to be sacred, that is, devoted to God or to divine service; as the consecration of the priests among the Israelites; the consecration of the vessels used in the temple; the consecration of a bishop.

2. Canonization; the act of translating into heaven, and enrolling or numbering among the saints or gods; the ceremony of the apotheosis of an emperor.

3. The benediction of the elements in the eucharist; the act of setting apart and blessing the elements in the communion.

Consecrator

CONSECRATOR, noun One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.

Consecratory

CONSECRATORY, adjective Making sacred.

Consectary

CONSECTARY, adjective [Latin , to follow. See Seek.] Following; consequent; consequential; deducible.

CONSECTARY, noun That which follows; consequence; deduction from premises; corollary.

Consecution

CONSECUTION, noun [Latin , to follow. See Seek.]

1. A following or sequel; train of consequences from premises; series of deductions.

2. Succession; series of things that follow each other; as a consecution of colors.

3. In astronomy, consecution month is the space between one conjunction of the moon with the sun and another.

Consecutive

CONSECUTIVE, adjective [See Consecution.]

1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; as, fifty consecutive years.

2. Following; consequential; succeeding; as, the actions of men consecutive to volition.

3. consecutive chords, in music, imply a succession or repetition of the same consonance in similar motion.

Consecutively

CONSECUTIVELY, adverb By way of consequence or succession, in opposition to antecedently or casually.

Consenescence

CONSENESCENCE, CONSENESCENCY, noun [Latin , to grow old.] A growing old; decay from age; as the consenescence of the world.

Consenescency

CONSENESCENCE, CONSENESCENCY noun [Latin , to grow old.] A growing old; decay from age; as the consenescence of the world.

Consension

CONSENSION, noun [Latin See consent.] Agreement; accord. [Little used.]

Consent

CONSENT, noun [Latin , to be of one mind, to agree; to think, feel or perceive. See Sense and Assent.]

1. Agreement of the mind to what is proposed or state by another; accord; hence, a yielding of the mind or will to that which is proposed; as, a parent gives his consent to the marriage of his daughter. We generally use this word in cases where power, rights, and claims are concerned. We give consent when we yield that which we have a right to withhold; but we do not give consent to a mere opinion, or abstract proposition. In this case, we give our assent. But assent is also used in conceding what we may withhold. We give our assent to the marriage of a daughter. Consequently, assent has a more extensive application than consent But the distinction is not always observed. consent often amounts to permission.

Defraud ye not one another, except with consent for a time. 1 Corinthians 7:5.

2. Accord of minds; agreement; unity of opinion.

All with one consent began to make excuse. Luke 14:18.

The company of priests murder by consent Hosea 6.

3. Agreement; coherence; correspondence in parts, qualities, or operation.

Such is the worlds great harmony that springs from union, order, full consent of things.

4. In the animal economy, an agreement, or sympathy, by which one affected part of the system affects some distant part. This consent is supposed to exist in, or be produced by the nerves; and the affections to be communicated from one part to another by means of their ramifications and distribution through the body. Thus, the stone in the bladder, by vellicating the fibers, will produce spasms and colic in the bowels; a shameful thing seen or heard will produce blushing in the cheeks. But many facts indicate that other causes than nervous communication produce sympathy.

CONSENT, verb intransitive [Latin See the Noun.]

1. Literally, to think with another. Hence, to agree or accord. More generally, to agree in mind and will; to yield to what one has the power, the right, or the disposition to withhold, or refuse to grant.

If sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Proverbs 1:10.

And Saul was consenting to Stephens death. Acts 8:1.

Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us. Genesis 34:15.

2. To agree.

When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him. Psalms 1:1.

3. To assent.

I consent to the law that it is good. Romans 7:16. 1 Timothy 6:3.

Consentaneous

CONSENTANEOUS, adjective [Latin See Consent.] Agreeable; accordant; consistent with; suitable.

The practice of virtue is not consentaneous to the unrenewed heart.

Consentaneously

CONSENTANEOUSLY, adverb Agreeably; consistently; suitably.

Consentaneousness

CONSENTANEOUSNESS, noun Agreement; accordance; consistency.

Consenter

CONSENTER, noun One who consents.

Consentient

CONSENTIENT, adjective [Latin] Agreeing in mind; accordant in opinion.

The authority due to the consentient judgment of the church.

Consequence

CONSEQUENCE, noun [Latin , to follow. See Seek.]

1. That which follows from any act, cause, principle, or series of actions. Hence, an event or effect produced by some preceding act or cause.

Shun the bitter consequence; for know, the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die.

The consequences of intemperance are disgrace, poverty, disease and premature death.

2. In logic, a proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; the conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference; deduction.

Every rational being is accountable to his maker; man is a rational being; the consequence then must be, that man is accountable to his maker.

From this train of argument, the consequence is obvious.

3. Connection of cause and effect; consecution.

I felt that I must after thee, with this my son; such fatal consequence unites us three.

4. Influence; tendency, as to effects. The sense of consequence in this use, is modified by the words connected with it; as, it is of little consequence that is, of little importance, small effects will follow; it is of no consequence of no moment, no effect of importance will follow; it is of great consequence of great importance, great effects will follow.

5. Importance; extensive influence; distinction; as a man of great consequence in society.

In consequence by means of; as the effect of.

Consequent

CONSEQUENT, adjective [Latin]

1. Following, as the natural effect; with to or on.

The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal.

His poverty was consequent on his vices.

2. Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as a proposition consequent to other propositions.

CONSEQUENT, noun

1. Effect; that which follows a cause.

They were ill governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.

2. That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion or inference.

Consequential

CONSEQUENTIAL, adjective

1. Following as the effect; produced by the connection of effects with causes; as a consequential evil.

2. Having the consequence justly connected with the premises; conclusive.

These arguments are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose.

3. Important.

4. With assumed importance; with conceit.

Consequentialness

CONSEQUENTIALNESS, noun Regular consecution in discourse.

Consequently

CONSEQUENTLY, adverb By consequence; by necessary connection of effects with their causes; in consequence of something.

Consequentness

CONSEQUENTNESS, noun Regular connection of propositions, following each other; consecution of discourse. [Little used.]