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Constringe
CONSTRINGE, verb transitive [Latin See Constrain.] To draw together; to strain into a narrow compass; to contract; to force to contract itself.
Strong liquors constringe harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids.
Constringed
CONSTRINGED, participle passive Contracted; drawn together.
Constringent
CONSTRINGENT, adjective Having the quality of contracting, binding or compressing.
Constringing
CONSTRINGING, participle present tense Drawing or compressing into a smaller compass; contracting; binding.
Construct
CONSTRUCT, verb transitive [Latin , to lay, dispose or set in order. See Structure.]
1. To put together the parts of a thing in their proper place and order; to build; to form; as, to construct an edifice.
2. To devise and compose, as to construct a new system; or simply to frame or form, as to construct a telescope. The word may include the invention, with the formation, or not, at the pleasure of the writer. A man constructs a ship according to a model; or a grammar by a new arrangement of principles; or a planetarium of a new form.
3. To interpret or understand. [See Construe.]
Constructed
CONSTRUCTED, participle passive Built; formed; composed; compiled.
Constructer
CONSTRUCTER, noun One who constructs or frames.
Constructing
CONSTRUCTING, participle present tense Building; framing; composing.
Construction
CONSTRUCTION, noun [Latin]
1. The act of building, or of devising and forming; fabrication.
2. The form of building; the manner of putting together the parts of a building, a machine, or a system; structure; conformation.
The sailing of a ship and its capacity depend chiefly on its construction
3. In grammar, syntax, or the arrangement and connection of words in a sentence, according to established usages, or the practice of good writers and speakers.
4. Sense; meaning; interpretation; explanation; or the manner of understanding the arrangement of words, or of understanding facts. Let us find the true construction; or let us give the authors words a sound, rational, consistent construction What construction can be put upon this affair, or upon the conduct of a man?
5. The manner of describing a figure or problem in geometry. The drawing of such lines, such figure, etc., as are previously necessary for making any demonstration appear more plain and undeniable.
6. In algebra, the construction of equations is the method of reducing a known equation into lines and figures, in order to a geometrical demonstration.
Constructional
CONSTRUCTIONAL, adjective Pertaining to construction; deduced from construction or interpretation. [Unusual.]
Constructive
CONSTRUCTIVE, adjective By construction; created or deduced by construction, or mode of interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred; as constructive treason.
Stipulations, expressed or implied, formal or constructive
Constructively
CONSTRUCTIVELY, adverb In a constructive manner; by way of construction or interpretation; by fair inference.
A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government.
Constructure
CONSTRUCTURE, noun An edifice; pile; fabric. [For this, structure is more generally used.]
Construe
CONSTRUE, verb transitive [Latin See Construct.]
1. To arrange words in their natural order; to reduce from a transposed to a natural order, so as to discover the sense of a sentence; hence, to interpret; and when applied to a foreign language, to translate; to render into English; as, to construe Greek, Latin or French.
2. To interpret; to explain; to show or to understand the meaning.
I pray that I may not be so understood or construed.
Thus we are put to construe and paraphrase our own words.
Construed
CONSTRUED, participle passive Arranged in natural order; interpreted; understood; translated.
Construing
CONSTRUING, participle present tense Arranging in natural order; expounding; interpreting; translating.
Constuprate
CONSTUPRATE, verb transitive [Latin , to ravish.] To violate; to debauch; to defile.
Constupration
CONSTUPRATION, noun The act of ravishing; violation; defilement.
Consubsist
CONSUBSIST, verb intransitive To subsist together. [See Subsist.]
Consubstantial
CONSUBSTANTIAL, adjective [Latin See Substance.]
1. Having the same substance or essence; co-essential.
The orthodox believe the Son to be consubstantial with the Father.
2. Of the same kind or nature.
It continueth a body consubstantial with ours.
Consubstantialist
CONSUBSTANTIALIST, noun One who believes in consubstantiation.
Consubstantiality
CONSUBSTANTIALITY, noun
1. The existence of more than one in the same substance; as, the co-eternity and consubstantiality of the Son with the Father.
2. Participation of the same nature.
Consubstantiate
CONSUBSTANTIATE, verb transitive [L, substance.] To unite in one common substance or nature.
CONSUBSTANTIATE, verb intransitive To profess consubstantiation.
Consubstantiation
CONSUBSTANTIATION, noun The union of the body of our blessed Savior with the sacramental elements. The Lutherans maintain that after consecration of the elements, the body and blood of Christ are substantially present with the substance of the bread and wine, which is called consubstantiation or impanation.
Consul
CONSUL, noun [Latin , to consult.]
1. The chief magistrate of the Ancient Roman Republic, invested with regal authority for one year. There were two consuls, annually chosen in the campus Martius. In the first ages of Tome, they were elected from Patrician families or noblemen; but in the year of Rome 388, the people obtained the privilege of electing one of the consuls from their own body, and sometimes both were plebeians.
2. In modern usage, the name consul is given to a person commissioned by a king or state to reside in a foreign country as an agent or representative, to protect the rights, commerce, merchants and seamen of the state, and to aid the government in any commercial transactions with such foreign country.
3. An adviser. [Not well authorized.]
Consulage
CONSULAGE, noun A duty laid by the British Levant Company on imports and exports for the support of the companys affairs.
Consular
CONSULAR, adjective Pertaining to a consul; as consular power; consular dignity, or privileges.
Consulate
CONSULATE, noun [Latin] The office of a consul. [ This is applicable to modern consuls, as well as to the Roman.]
2. The jurisdiction or extent of a consuls authority.
Consulship
CONSULSHIP, noun The office of a consul; or the term of his office; applicable only to Roman consuls.
Consult
CONSULT, verb intransitive [Latin , to consult to ask counsel.]
1. To seek the opinion or advice of another by, by a statement of facts, and suitable inquiries, for the purpose of directing ones own judgment; followed by with.
Rehoboam consulted with the old men. .
David consulted with the captains of thousands. .
2. To take counsel together; to seek opinions and advice by mutual statements, enquiries and reasonings; to deliberate in common.
The chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus to death. .
3. To consider with deliberation. .
CONSULT, verb transitive
1. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of another, as a guide to ones own judgment; as, to consult a friend or parent.
2. To seek information, or facts, in something; as by examining books or papers, Thus, I consulted several authors on the subject; I consulted the official documents.
3. To regard; to have reference or respect to, in judging or acting; to decide or to act in favor of. We are to consult the necessities, rather than the pleasures of life. We are to consult public as well as private interest. He consulted his own safety in flight.
Ere fancy you consult consult your purse.
4. To plan, devise or contrive.
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, by cutting off many people. . [This sense is unusual and not to be countenanced.]
CONSULT, noun The act of consulting; the effect of consultation; determination; a council, or deliberating assembly. This word is, I believe, entirely obsolete, except in poetry. It would be naturally accented on the first syllable, but the poets accent the last.
Consultation
CONSULTATION, noun
1. The act of consulting; deliberation of two or more persons, with a view to some decision.
The chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes. .
2. The persons who consult together; a number of persons seeking mutually each others opinions and advice; a council for deliberation; as, a consultation of physicians was called.
Writ of consultation in law, a writ awarded by a superior court, to return a cause, which had been removed by prohibition from the court Christian, to its original jurisdiction; so called because the judges on consultation find the prohibition ill founded.
Consultative
CONSULTATIVE, adjective Having the privilege of consulting.
Consulted
CONSULTED, participle passive Asked; enquired of, for opinion or advice; regarded.
Consulter
CONSULTER, noun One who consults, or asks counsel or information; as a consulter with familiar spirits. .
Consulting
CONSULTING, participle present tense Asking advice; seeking information; deliberating and enquiring mutually; regarding.
Consumable
CONSUMABLE, adjective [See Consume.] That may be consumed; possible to be destroyed, dissipated, wasted or spent; as, asbestos is not consumable by fire.
The importation and exportation of consumable commodities.
Consume
CONSUME, verb transitive [Latin , to take. So in English we say, it takes up time, that is, it consumes time.]
1. To destroy, by separating the parts of a thing, by decomposition, as by fire, or eating, devouring, and annihilating the form of a substance. Fire consumes wood, coal, stubble; animals consume flesh and vegetables.
2. To destroy by dissipating or by use; to expend; to waste; to squander; as, to consume an estate.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. .
3. To spend; to cause to pass away, as time; as, to consume the day in idleness.
Their days did he consume in vanity. .
4. To cause to disappear; to waste slowly.
My flesh is consumed away. .
5. To destroy; to bring to utter ruin; to exterminate.
Let me alone-- that I may consume them. .
CONSUME, verb intransitive To waste away slowly; to be exhausted.
Their flesh--their eyes--their tongue shall consume away. .
The wicked shall perish--they shall consume .
Consumed
CONSUMED, participle passive Wasted; burnt up; destroyed; dissipated; squandered; expended.
Consumer
CONSUMER, noun One who consumes, spends, wastes or destroys; that which consumes.
Consuming
CONSUMING, participle present tense
1. Burning; wasting; destroying; expending; eating; devouring.
2. adjective That destroys.
The Lord thy God is a consuming fire. .
Consummate
CONSUMMATE, verb transitive [Latin See Sum.] To end; to finish by completing what was intended; to perfect; to bring or carry to the utmost point or degree.
He had a mind to consummate the happiness of the day.
CONSUMMATE, adjective Complete; perfect; carried to the utmost extent or degree; as consummate greatness or felicity.
Consummated
CONSUMMATED, participle passive Completed; perfected; ended.
Consummately
CONSUMMATELY, adverb Completely; perfectly.
Consummating
CONSUMMATING, participle present tense Completing; accomplishing; perfecting.
Consummation
CONSUMMATION, noun [Latin]
1. Completion; end; perfection of a word, process or scheme.
2. The end or completion of the present system of things; the end of the world.
3. Death; the end of life.
CONSUMMATION of marriage, the most intimate union of the sexes, which completes the connubial relation.
Consumption
CONSUMPTION, noun [Latin See Consume.]
1. The act of consuming; waste; destruction by burning, eating, devouring, scattering, dissipation, slow decay, or by passing away, as time; as the consumption of fuel, of food, of commodities or estate, of time, etc.
2. The state of being wasted, or diminished.
Etna and Vesuvius have not suffered any considerable diminution or consumption
3. In medicine, a wasting of flesh; a gradual decay or diminution of the body; a word of extensive signification. But particularly, the disease called phthisis pulmonalis, pulmonic consumption a disease seated in the lungs, attended with hectic fever, cough, etc.
Consumptive
CONSUMPTIVE, adjective
1. Destructive; wasting; exhausting; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; as a long consumptive war.
2. Affected with a consumption or pumonic disease, as consumptive lungs; or inclined to a consumption; tending to the phthisis pulmonalis; applied to the incipient state of the disease, or to a constitution predisposed to it.
Consumptively
CONSUMPTIVELY, adverb In a way tending to consumption.
Consumptiveness
CONSUMPTIVENESS, noun A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
Contabulate
CONTABULATE, verb transitive [Latin] To floor with boards.
Contabulation
CONTABULATION, noun The act of laying with boards, or of flooring.
Contact
CONTACT, noun [Latin , to touch. See Touch.] A touching; touch; close union or juncture of bodies. Two bodies come in contact when they meet without any sensible intervening space; the parts that touch are called the points of contact
Contaction
CONTACTION, noun The act of touching.
Contagion
CONTAGION, noun [Latin , to touch.]
1. Literally, a touch or touching. Hence, the communication of a disease by contact, or the matter communicated. More generally, that subtil matter which proceeds from a diseased person or body, and communicates the disease to another person; as in cases of small pox, measles, anginas, and malignant fevers; diseases which are communicated without contact. This contagion proceeds from the breath of the diseased, from the perspiration of other excretions.
2. That which communicates evil from one to another; infection; that which propagates mischief; as the contagion of vice or of evil examples.
3. Pestilence; a pestilential disease; venomous exhalations.
Contagious
CONTAGIOUS, adjective
1. Containing or generating contagion; catching; that may be communicated by contact, or by a subtil excreted matter; as a contagious disease.
2. Poisonous; pestilential; containing contagion; as contagious air; contagious clothing.
3. Containing mischief that may be propagated; as contagious example.
4. That may be communicated from one to another, or may excite like affections in others.
His genius rendered his courage more contagious
Contagiousness
CONTAGIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being contagious.
Contain
CONTAIN, verb transitive [Latin , to hold. See Tenet, Tenure.]
1. To hold, as a vessel; as, the vessel contains a gallon. Hence, to have capacity; to be able to hold; applied to an empty vessel.
2. To comprehend; to hold within specified limits.
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. .
3. To comprehend; to comprise. The history of Livy contains a hundred and forty books.
4. To hold within limits prescribed; to restrain; to withhold from trespass or disorder.
The Kings person contains the unruly people from evil occasions.
Fear not, my Lord, we can contain ourselves.
5. To include. This article is not contained in the account. This number does not contain the article specified.
6. To inclose; as, this cover or envelop contains a letter.
CONTAIN, verb intransitive To live in continence or chastity. Arbuthnot and Pope. .
Containable
CONTAINABLE, adjective That may be contained, or comprised.
Contained
CONTAINED, participle passive Held; comprehended; comprised; included; inclosed.
Containing
CONTAINING, participle present tense Holding; having capacity to hold; comprehending; comprising; including; inclosing.
Contaminate
CONTAMINATE, verb transitive [Latin , to defile.] To defile; to pollute; usually in a figurative sense; to sully; to tarnish; to taint. Lewdness contaminates character; cowardice contaminates honor.
Shall we now contaminate our fingers with base bribes?
CONTAMINATE, adjective Polluted; defiled; corrupt.
Contaminated
CONTAMINATED, participle passive Polluted; defiled; tarnished.
Contaminating
CONTAMINATING, participle present tense Polluting; defiling; tarnishing.
Contamination
CONTAMINATION, noun The act of polluting; pollution; defilement; taint.
Conteck
CONTECK, noun Quarrel; contention. [Not English.]
Contection
CONTECTION, noun [Latin] A covering. [Not used.]
Contemn
CONTEMN, verb transitive [Latin , to despise; to drive away.]
1. To despise; to consider and treat as mean and despicable; to scorn.
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned. .
2. To slight; to neglect as unworthy of regard; to reject with disdain.
Wherefore do the wicked contemn God. .
They contemn the counsel of the Most High. .
Contemned
CONTEMNED, participle passive Despised; scorned; slighted; neglected, or rejected with disdain.
Contemner
CONTEMNER, noun One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner.
Contemning
CONTEMNING, participle present tense Despising; slighting as vile or despicable; neglecting or rejecting, as unworthy of regard.
Contemper
CONTEMPER, verb transitive [Latin , to mix or temper. See Temper.] To moderate; to reduce to a lower degree by mixture with opposite or different qualities; to temper.
The leaves qualify and contemper the heat.
Contemperament
CONTEMPERAMENT, noun Moderated or qualified degree; a degree of any quality reduced to that of another; temperament.
Contemperate
CONTEMPERATE, verb transitive [See Contemper.] To temper; to reduce the quality of, by mixing something opposite or different; to moderate.
Contemperation
CONTEMPERATION, noun
1. The act of reducing a quality by admixture of the contrary; the act of moderating or tempering.
2. Temperament; proportionate mixture; as the contemperament of humors in different bodies.
[Instead of these words, temper and temperament are now generally used.]
Contemplate
CONTEMPLATE, verb transitive [Latin]
1. To view or consider with continued attention; to study; to meditate on. This word expresses the attention of the mind, but sometimes in connection with that of the eyes; as, to contemplate the heavens. More generally, the act of the mind only is intended; as, to contemplate the wonders of redemption; to contemplate the state of the nation and its future prospects.
2. To consider or have in view, in reference to a future act or event; to intend.
A decree of the National Assembly of France, June 26, 1792, contemplates a supply from the United States of four millions of livres.
There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
CONTEMPLATE, verb intransitive To think studiously; to study; to muse; to meditate.
He delights to contemplate on the works of creation.
Contemplated
CONTEMPLATED, participle passive Considered with attention; meditated on; intended.
Contemplating
CONTEMPLATING, participle present tense Considering with continued attention; meditating on; musing.
Contemplation
CONTEMPLATION, noun [Latin]
1. The act of the mind in considering with attention; meditation; study; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject.
CONTEMPLATION is keeping the idea, brought into the mind, some time actually in view.
2. Holy meditation; attention to sacred things; a particular application of the foregoing definition.
To have in contemplation to intend or purpose, or to have under consideration.
Contemplative
CONTEMPLATIVE, adjective
1. Given to contemplation, or continued application of the mind to a subject; studious; thoughtful; as a contemplative philosopher, or mind.
2. Employed in study; as a contemplative life.
3. Having the appearance of study, or a studious habit; as a contemplative look.
4. Having the power of thought or meditation; as the contemplative faculty of man.
Contemplatively
CONTEMPLATIVELY, adverb With contemplation; attentively; thoughtfully; with deep attention.
Contemplator
CONTEMPLATOR, noun One who contemplates; one employed in study or meditation; an inquirer after knowledge.
Contemporaneous
CONTEMPORANEOUS, adjective [See Cotemporary.] living or being at the same time.
Contemporary
CONTEMPORARY, adjective [Latin , time. For the sake of easier pronunciation and a ore agreeable sound, this word is often changed to cotemporary.] Coetaneous; living at the same time, applied to persons; being or existing at the same time, applied to things; as contemporary kings; contemporary events. [See Cotemporary, the preferable word.]
CONTEMPORARY, noun One who lives at the same time with another.
Socrates and Plato were contemporaries.
Contemporise
CONTEMPORISE, verb transitive To make contemporary; to place in the same age or time. [Not used.]
Contempt
CONTEMPT, noun [Latin See Contemn.]
1. The act of despising; the act of viewing or considering and treating as mean, vile and worthless; disdain; hatred of what is mean or deemed vile. This word is one of the strongest expressions of a mean opinion which the language affords.
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.
2. The state of being despised; whence in a scriptural sense, shame, disgrace.
Some shall awake to everlasting contempt .
3. In law, disobedience of the rules and orders of a court, which is a punishable offense.
Contemptible
CONTEMPTIBLE, adjective [Latin]
1. Worthy of contempt; that deserves scorn, or disdain; despicable; mean; vile. Intemperance is a contemptible vice. No plant or animal is so contemptible as not to exhibit evidence of the wonderful power and wisdom of the Creator.
The pride that leads to dueling is a contemptible passion.
2. Apt to despise; contemptuous. [Not legitimate.]
Contemptibleness
CONTEMPTIBLENESS, noun The state of being contemptible, or of being despised; despicableness; meanness; vileness.
Contemptibly
CONTEMPTIBLY, adverb In a contemptible manner; meanly; in a manner deserving of contempt.
Contemptuous
CONTEMPTUOUS, adjective Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; as contemptuous language or manner; a contemptuous opinion. Applied to men, apt to despise; haughty; insolent; as a nation, proud, severe, contemptuous
Contemptuously
CONTEMPTUOUSLY, adverb In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.
The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and treated contemptuously
Contemptuousness
CONTEMPTUOUSNESS, noun Disposition to contempt; act of contempt; insolence; scornfulness; haughtiness.
Contend
CONTEND, verb intransitive [Latin , to stretch. Gr., See Tend, Tenet.]
1. To strive, or to strive against; to struggle in opposition.
Distress not the Moabites, nor contend with them in battle. .
2. To strive; to use earnest efforts to obtain, or to defend and preserve.
You sit above, and see vain men below contend for what you only can bestow.
Ye should earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints. .
3. To dispute earnestly; to strive in debate.
They that were of the circumcision contended with him. . .
4. To reprove sharply; to chide; to strive to convince and reclaim.
Then contended I with the rulers. .
5.To strive in opposition; to punish.
The Lord God called to contend by fire. .
6. To quarrel; to dispute fiercely; to wrangle. The parties contend about trifles.
To contend for, to strive to obtain; as, two competitors contend for the prize.
CONTEND, verb transitive To dispute; to contest.
When Carthage shall contend the world with Rome.
This transitive use of contend is not strictly legitimate. The phrase is elliptical, for being understood after contend; but it is admissible in poetry.
Contended
CONTENDED, participle passive Urged in argument or debate; disputed; contested.
Contendent
CONTENDENT, noun An antagonist or opposer.
Contender
CONTENDER, noun One who contends; a combatant; a champion.
Contending
CONTENDING, participle present tense
1. Striving; struggling to oppose; debating; urging in argument; quarreling.
2. Clashing; opposing; rival; as contending claims or interests.
Contenement
CONTENEMENT, noun [con and tenement.] Land, or freehold contiguous to a tenement.
Content
CONTENT, adjective [Latin , to be held; to hold.] Literally, held, contained within limits; hence, quiet; not disturbed; having a mind at peace; easy; satisfied, so as not to repine, object, or oppose.
CONTENT with science in the vale of peace.
Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content .
CONTENT, verb transitive
1. To satisfy the mind; to make quiet, so as to stop complaint or opposition; to appease; to make easy in any situation; used chiefly with the reciprocal pronoun.
Do not content yourselves with obscure and confused ideas, where clearer are to be obtained.
Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas. .
2. To please or gratify.
It doth much content me, to hear him so inclined.
CONTENT, noun
1. Rest or quietness of the mind in the present condition; satisfaction which holds the mind in peace, restraining complaint, opposition, or further desire, and often implying a moderate degree of happiness.
A wise content his even soul securd; By want not shaken, nor by wealth allurd.
2. Acquiescence; satisfaction without examination.
The style is excellent; the sense they humbly take upon content
3. The term used in the House of Lords in England, to express an assent to a bill or motion.
CONTENT, noun
1. Often in the plural, contents. That which is contained; the thing or things held, included or comprehended within a limit or line; as the contents of a cask or bale; of a room or a ship; the contents of a book or writing.
2. In geometry, the area or quantity of matter or space included in certain lines.
3. The power of containing; capacity; extent within limits; as a ship of great content
[But in this sense the plural is generally used.]
Contentation
CONTENTATION, noun Content; satisfaction.
Contented
CONTENTED, participle passive or adjective Satisfied; quiet; easy in mind; not complaining, opposing or demanding more. The good man is contented with his lot. It is our duty to be contented with the dispensations of providence.
Contentedly
CONTENTEDLY, adverb In a contented manner; quietly; without concern.
Contentedness
CONTENTEDNESS, noun State of resting in mind; quiet; satisfaction of mind with any condition or event.
Contentful
CONTENTFUL, adjective Full of contentment. [Not used.]
Contention
CONTENTION, noun [Latin See Contend.]
1. Strife; struggle; a violent effort to obtain something, or to resist a person, claim or injury; contest; quarrel.
Multitudes lost their lives in a tumult raised by contention among the partizans of the several colors.
2. Strife in words or debate; quarrel; angry contest; controversy.
Avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law. .
A fools lips enter into contention .
3. Strife or endeavor to excel; emulation.
4. Eagerness; zeal; ardor; vehemence of endeavor.
This is an end worthy of our utmost contention to obtain.
Contentious
CONTENTIOUS, adjective
1. Apt to contend; given to angry debate; quarrelsome; perverse.
A continual dropping in a rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike. .
2. Relating to contention in law; relating to litigation; having power to decide causes between contending parties; as a court of contentious jurisdiction.
3. Exciting or adapted to provoke contention or disputes; as a contentious subject.
Contentiously
CONTENTIOUSLY, adverb In a contentious manner; quarrelsomely; perversely.
Contentiousness
CONTENTIOUSNESS, noun A disposition to contend; proneness to contest; perverseness; quarrelsomeness.
Contentless
CONTENTLESS, adjective Discontented; dissatisfied; uneasy.
Contently
CONTENTLY, adverb In a contented way.
Contentment
CONTENTMENT, noun
1. Content; a resting or satisfaction of mind without disquiet; acquiescence.
CONTENTMENT, without external honor, is humility.
Godliness with contentment is great gain. .
2. Gratification.
At Paris the prince spent a day, to give his mind some contentment
Conterminable
CONTERMINABLE, adjective [Latin Con and terminus.] Capable of the same bounds.
Conterminate
CONTERMINATE, adjective Having the same bounds.
Conterminous
CONTERMINOUS, adjective [Latin , con and terminus, a border.] Bordering upon; touching at the boundary; contiguous; as a people conterminous to the Roman territory.
Conterpractice
CONTERPRACTICE, noun Practice in opposition to another.
Conterranean
CONTERRANEAN, CONTERRANEOUS, adjective [Latin , con and terra, country.] Being of the same country. [Not used.]
Conterraneous
CONTERRANEAN, CONTERRANEOUS adjective [Latin , con and terra, country.] Being of the same country. [Not used.]
Contest
CONTEST, verb transitive [Latin , have a different sense, being equivalent to the English attest. See Test.]
1. To dispute; to strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend. The troops contested every inch of ground.
2. To dispute; to argue in opposition to; to controvert; to litigate; to oppose; to call in question; as, the advocate contested every point.
None have contested the proportion of these ancient pieces.
CONTEST, verb intransitive
1. To strive; to contend; followed by with.
The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.
2. To vie; to emulate.
Of man who dares in pomp with Jove contest
CONTEST, noun
1. Strife; struggle for victory, superiority, or in defense; struggle in arms. All Europe engaged in the contest against France. The contest was furious.
2. Dispute; debate; violent controversy; strife in argument.
Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors, and brawling language.
Contestable
CONTESTABLE, adjective That may be disputed or debated; disputable; controvertible.
Contestableness
CONTESTABLENESS, noun Possibility of being contested.
Contestation
CONTESTATION, noun
1. The act of contesting; strife; dispute.
After years spent in domestic contestations, she found means to withdraw.
2. Testimony; proof by witnesses.
Contestingly
CONTESTINGLY, adverb In a contending manner.
Contestless
CONTESTLESS, adjective Not to be disputed.
Contex
CONTEX, verb intransitive To weave together. [Not used.]
Context
CONTEXT, noun [Latin Con and texo, to weave.] The general series or composition of a discourse; more particularly, the parts of a discourse which precede or follow the sentence quoted; the passages of scripture which are near the text, either before it or after it. The sense of a passage of scripture is often illustrated by the context
CONTEXT, adjective Knit or woven together; close; firm.
CONTEST, verb transitive To knit together. [Not used.]
Contextural
CONTEXTURAL, adjective Pertaining to contexture, or to the human frame.
Contexture
CONTEXTURE, noun The manner of interweaving several parts into one body; the disposition and union of the constituent parts of a thing, with respect to each other; composition of parts; constitution; as a silk of admirable contexture
He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.
Contignation
CONTIGNATION, noun [Latin , a beam.]
1. A frame of beams; a story.
2. The act of framing together, or uniting beams in a fabric.
Contiguity
CONTIGUITY, noun [See Contiguous.] Actual contact of bodies; a touching.
Contiguous
CONTIGUOUS, adjective [Latin , con and tango, tago, to touch.] Touching; meeting or joining at the surface or border; as two contiguous bodies or countries.
The houses in ancient Rome were not contiguous
Usually followed by to. Bacon uses with, but he has not been followed.
Contiguously
CONTIGUOUSLY, adverb In a manner to touch; without intervening space.
Contiguousness
CONTIGUOUSNESS, noun A state of contact; close union of surfaces or borders.
Continence
CONTINENCE, CONTINENCY, noun [Latin , to hold, or withhold; con and teneo, to hold. See Tenet.]
Continency
CONTINENCE, CONTINENCY noun [Latin , to hold, or withhold; con and teneo, to hold. See Tenet.]
1. In a general sense, the restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; self-command.
2. Appropriately, the restraint of the passion for sexual enjoyment; resistance of concupiscence; forbearance of lewd pleasures; hence, chastity. But the term is usually applied to males, as chastity is to females. Scipio the younger exhibited the nobles example of continence recorded in Pagan history; an example surpassed only by that of Joseph in sacred history.
3. Forbearance of lawful pleasure.
Content without lawful venery, is continence; without unlawful, is chastity.
4. Moderation in the indulgence of sexual enjoyment.
Chastity is either abstinence or continence; abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence, that of married persons.
5. Continuity; uninterrupted course. [Not now used.]
Continent
CONTINENT, adjective [Latin]
1. Refraining from unlawful sexual commerce, or moderate in the indulgence of lawful pleasure; chaste.
2. Restrained; moderate; temperate.
Have a continent forbearance.
3. Opposing; restraining.
4. Continuous; connected; not interrupted.
The North East part of Asia, if not continent with America--
A continent fever. More generally we now say a continued fever.
CONTINENT, noun
1. In geography, a great extent of land, not disjoined or interrupted by a sea; a connected tract of land of great extent; as the Eastern and Western continent It differs from an isle only in extent. New Holland may be denominated a continent Britain is called a continent as opposed to the isle of Anglesey.
In Spenser, continent is use for ground in general.
2. That which contains any thing. [Not used.]
Continental
CONTINENTAL, adjective Pertaining or relating to a continent; as the continental powers of Europe. In America, pertaining to the United States, as continental money, in distinction from what pertains to the separate states; a word much used during the revolution.
Continently
CONTINENTLY, adverb In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.
Contingence
CONTINGENCE, CONTINGENCY, noun [Latin , to fall or happen to; to touch. See Touch.]
Contingency
CONTINGENCE, CONTINGENCY noun [Latin , to fall or happen to; to touch. See Touch.]
1. The quality of being contingent or casual; a happening; or the possibility of coming to pass.
We are not to build certain rules on the CONTINGENCY of human actions.
2. Casualty; accident; fortuitous event. The success of the attempt will depend on contingencies. [See Accident and Casualty.]
Contingent
CONTINGENT, adjective
1. Falling or coming by chance, that is, without design or expectation on our part; accidental; casual. On our part, we speak of chance or contingencies; but with an infinite being, nothing can be contingent
2. In law, depending on an uncertainty; as a contingent remainder.
CONTINGENT, noun
1. A fortuitous event; that which comes without our design, foresight or expectation.
2. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a quota; an equal or suitable share; proportion. Each prince furnishes his contingent of men, money and munitions.
Contingently
CONTINGENTLY, adverb Accidentally; without design or foresight.
Contingentness
CONTINGENTNESS, noun The state of being contingent; fortuitousness.
Continual
CONTINUAL, adjective [Latin See Continue.]
1. Proceeding without interruption or cessation; unceasing; not intermitting; used in reference to time.
He that hath a merry heart hath a continual feast. .
I have great heaviness and continual sorrow of heart. .
2. Very frequent; often repeated; as, the charitable man has continual application for alms.
3. continual fever, or continued fever, a fever that abates, but never entirely intermits, till it comes to a crisis; thus distinguished from remitting and intermitting fever.
4. continual claim, in law, a claim that is made from time to time within every year or day, to land or other estate, the possession of which cannot be obtained without hazard.
5. Perpetual.
Continually
CONTINUALLY, adverb
1. Without pause or cessation; unceasingly; as, the ocean is continually rolling its waves on the shore.
2. Very often; in repeated succession; from time to time.
Thou shalt eat bread at my table continually .
Continualness
CONTINUALNESS, noun Permanence.
Continuance
CONTINUANCE, noun [See Continue.]
1. A holding on or remaining in a particular state, or in a course or series. Applied to time, duration; a state of lasting; as the continuance of rain or fair weather for a day or week. Sensual pleasure is of short continuance
2. Perseverance; as, no excuse will justify a continuance in sin.
By patient continuance in well doing. .
3. Abode; residence; as, during our continuance in Paris.
4. Succession uninterrupted; continuation; a prolonging of existence; as, the brute regards the continuance of his species.
5. Progression of time.
In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned. .
6. In law, the deferring of a suit, or the giving of a day for the parties to a suit to appear. After issue or demurrer joined, as well as in some of the previous stages of proceeding, a day is continually given, and entered upon record, for the parties to appear on from time to time. The giving of this day is called a continuance
7. In the United States, the deferring of a trial or suit from one stated term of the court to another.
8. Continuity; resistance to a separation of parts; a holding together. [Not used.]
Continuate
CONTINUATE, verb transitive To join closely together.
CONTINUATE, adjective [Latin]
1. Immediately united; holding together. [Little used.]
2. Uninterrupted; unbroken. [Little used.]
Continuately
CONTINUATELY, adverb With continuity; without interruption. [Little used.]
Continuation
CONTINUATION, noun [Latin]
1. Extension of existence in a series or line; succession uninterrupted.
These things must be the works of providence, for the continuation of the species.
2. Extension or carrying on to a further point; as the continuation of a story.
3. Extension in space; production; a carrying on in length; as the continuation of a line in surveying.
Continuative
CONTINUATIVE, noun
1. An expression noting permanence or duration.
To these may be added continuatives; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes at least two propositions, viz. Rome was, and Rome is.
2. In grammar, a word that continues.
Continuator
CONTINUATOR, noun One who continues or keeps up a series or succession.
Continue
CONTINUE, verb intransitive [Latin , to hold. See Tenet.]
1. To remain in a state, or place; to abide for any time indefinitely.
The multitude continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. .
2. To last; to be durable; to endure; to be permanent.
Thy kingdom shall not continue .
3. To persevere; to be steadfast or constant in any course.
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. .
CONTINUE, verb transitive
1. To protract; not to cease from or to terminate.
O continue thy loving kindness to them that know thee. .
2. To extend from one thing to another; to produce or draw out in length. continue the line from A to B. Let the line be continued to the boundary.
3. To persevere in; not to cease to do or use; as, to continue the same diet.
4. To hold to or unite. [Not used.]
The navel continues the infant to its mother.
Continued
CONTINUED, participle passive
1. Drawn out; protracted; produced; extended in length; extended without interruption.
2. adjective Extended in time without intermission; proceeding without cessation; unceasing; as a continued fever, which abates but never entirely intermits. A continued base is performed through the whole piece.
CONTINUED proportion, in arithmetic, is where the consequent of the first ratio is the same with the antecedent of the second, as 4 :8 ::8 :16, in contradistinction from discrete proportion.
Continuedly
CONTINUEDLY, adverb Without interruption; without ceasing.
Continuer
CONTINUER, noun One who continues; cone that has the power of perseverance.
Continuing
CONTINUING, participle present tense
1. Remaining fixed or permanent; abiding; lasting; enduring; persevering; protracting; producing in length.
2. adjective Permanent.
Here we have no continuing city. .
Continuity
CONTINUITY, noun [Latin] Connection uninterrupted; cohesion; close union of parts; unbroken texture.
Philosophers talk of the solution of continuity
Continuous
CONTINUOUS, adjective [Latin] Joined without intervening space; as continuous depth.
Contorsion
CONTORTION, CONTORSION noun [Latin]
Contort
CONTORT, verb transitive [Latin] TO twist together; to writhe.
Contorted
CONTORTED, participle passive Twisted together. A contorted corol, in botany, has the edge of one petal lying over the next, in an oblique direction.
Contortion
CONTORTION, CONTORSION, noun [Latin]
1. A twisting; a writhing; a wresting; a twist; wry motion; as the contorsion of the muscles of the face.
2. In medicine, a twisting or wresting of a limb or member of the body out of its natural situation; the iliac passion; partial dislocation; distorted spine; contracted neck.
Contour
CONTOUR, noun The outline; the line that defines or terminates a figure.
Contourniated
CONTOURNIATED, adjective Having edges appearing as if turned in a lathe.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.