COMPRINT

Comprint (kom-print'), v.i. In law, to print a work belonging to another surreptitiously. [Rare.]

Comprint (kom'print), n. The surreptitious printing of a work belonging to another, to the prejudice of the proprietor; a work thus printed.

Comprisal (kom-priz'al), n. The act of comprising or comprehending; inclusion. 'A comprisal and sum of all wickedness.'

Barrow. [Rare.] Comprise (kom-prīz), v. t. pret. & pp. comprised; ppr. comprising. [Fr. compris, part. of comprendre, L. comprehendo, to comprehend. See COMPREHEND, which is the same word under a different form.] To comprehend; to contain; to include; as, the German Empire comprises a number of separate states.

Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:
She is our capital demand, comprised
Within the fore-rank of our articles.

Shak.

Friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon. Necessity of shortness causeth men to cut off impertinent discourses, and to comprise much matter in few words. Hooker.

SYN. To embrace, include, comprehend, contain, encircle, inclose, involve, imply. Comprobate (kom'prō-bāt), v.i. To agree or concur in testimony. Comprobate with Holye Scripture.' Sir T. Elyot. Comprobation † (kom-pro-ba'shon), n. [L. comprobatio, comprobo-com, and probo, to prove.] 1. Joint attestation or proof; concurrent testimony. Comprobation from the

mouths of at least two witnesses.' Sir T

Browne.-2. Joint approval; approbation;

concurrence. To whom the earl of Pembrooke imbosomes the whole design, andpresses his comprobation in it.' Sir G. Buck. Compromise (kom'prō-miz), n. [Fr. compromis, a compromise, originally a mutual promise to refer to arbitration, from compromettre, L. compromitto, to give bond to stand to an award-com, and promitto, to promise. See PROMISE.] 1. A mutual promise or contract of two parties in controversy, to refer their differences to the decision of arbitrators.

The parties are persuaded by friends or by their lawyers to put the matter in comprymise. Ed. Knight. 2. A settlement of differences by mutual concessions; fig. a combination of two rival systems, principles, &c., in which a part of each is sacrificed to make the combination possible; as, to attempt a compromise between the paths of ease and ambition. O inglorious league!

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measure which cannot be recalled; to endanger; to compromise. [Old and American.]

The ratification of the late treaty could not have compromitted our peace. Henry Clay. Comprovincial (kom-prō-vin'shal), n. [Prefix com, and provincial.] One belonging to the same province or archiepiscopal jurisdiction. Ayliffe.

Comprovincial (kom-pro-vin'shal), a. Belonging to or contained in the same province.

Six islands, comprovinciall,

In ancient times unto Great Britainee. Spenser. Compsognathus (komp-sog'nath-us), n. [Gr. kompsos, elegant, and gnathos, the jaw or mouth.] An extinct reptile (Compsognathus longipes), belonging to the order Dinosauria, occurring in the lithographic slate of Solenhofen, and remarkable for the singular affinities which it exhibits to the true birds. According to Huxley, 'it is impossible. . . to doubt that it hopped or walked in an erect or semi-erect position, after the manner of a bird, to which its long neck, slight head, and small anterior limbs must have given it an extraordinary resemblance.

Compt (kount), n. [Fr. compte. See COUNT. ] Account; computation; reckoning.

That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away From the great compt. Shak.

Compt† (kount), v.t. To compute. See

COUNT.

Compt (komt), a. [L. comptus.] Neat; A compt, accomplished prince.'

spruce. Vicars.

Shall we upon the footing of our land,
Send fair-play orders and make compromise,
Insinuation, parley and base truce
To arms invasive?

All government . . . is founded on compromise and barter. Burke.

3. What results from, or is founded on, such an agreement, as a specific arrangement, a course of conduct, or an institution; a mutual concession; as, his conduct was a compromise between his pride and his poverty. Compromise (kom'pro-miz), v. t. pret. & pp. compromised; ppr. compromising. 1. To adjust or combine by a compromise; to settle by mutual concessions.

Fuller.

The controversy may easily be compromised. 2. To bind by a mutual agreement; to agree.

Laban and himself were compromised,
That all the eanlings who were streaked and pied
Should fall as Jacob's hire.

Shak.

3. To put to risk or hazard, or to expose to serious consequences, by some act or declaration which cannot be recalled; to put in jeopardy; to prejudice; to endanger the interests of: often with reflexive pronouns; as, he compromised himself by his rash statements. To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.' Motley. [This is a modern meaning, compromit being formerly used instead.] Compromise (kom'pro-miz), v. i. To make a compromise; to agree; to accord; to compound. (Rare.]

Compromiser (kom'prō-miz-ér), n. One who compromises.

Compromissorial (kom'prō-mis-sō"ri-al), a. Relating to a compromise. Bailey. Compromit (kom'pro-mit), v. t. pret. & pp. compromitted; ppr.compromitting. [Fr. compromettre. See COMPROMISE, n.] 1. To pledge; to engage; to promise. 'Compromytting themselves... to abide and performe all such sentence and awarde.' Sir T. Elyot. 2. To put to hazard by some previous act or

sare, compulsatum, to press or strike often or violently, aug. of compello, compulsum, to drive together, compel. See COMPEL.] Compelling; forcing; constraining; operating by force. [Rare.]

To recover of us by strong hand

And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands. Shak. Compulsatively (kom-pul'sa-tiv-li), adv. By constraint or compulsion. [Rare.] Compulsion (kom-pul'shon), n. [L. compulsio, compulsionis, constraint, compul

sion.

See COMPULSATIVE. ] The act of driving or urging by force, physical or moral; force applied; constraint of the will. Impositions endured through compulsion.' Hallam.

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shak Compulsive (kom-pul'siv), a. Exercising compulsion; compulsory; as, uniformity of opinions cannot be effected by compul

sive measures. [Now rare.]

The clergy would be glad to recover their dues by a more short and compulsive method. Swift. Compulsively (kom-pul'siv-li), adr. By or under compulsion; by force. 'To forbid divorce compulsively.' Milton.

It is pre-eminently as a critic that we feel bound to reconsider his (Sainte Beuve's) claim to the high place among the classics of his tongue which the general voice of his countrymen has gradually and reluctantly, but compulsively rather than impulsively, assigned Quart. Rev.

to him.

Compulsiveness (kom-pul'siv-nes), n.
Force; compulsion.
Compulsorily (kom-pul'sō-ri-li), adv. In a
compulsory manner; by force or constraint.
Bacon

Compulsory (kom-pul'sō-ri), a. 1. Exercising compulsion; compelling; constraining. Compulsory power.' Jer. Taylor.

This kind of compulsory saving, however, would not have caused any increase of capital, unless a part of the amount had been saved over again, voluntarily, by the master. F. S. Mill Compulsory (kom-pul'sō-ri), n. That which has the power of compelling; constraining authority. Jer. Taylor. [Rare.] Compunct† (kom-pungkt), a. Feeling compunction; conscience-stricken. 'Contrite and compunct. Stow. [Rare.] Compuncted + (kom-pungk'ted), a. Feeling compunction. Foxe.

Compunction (kom-pungk'shon), n. [L. compunctio, compungo-com, and pungo, to prick or sting. See PUNGENT.] 1. A pricking; stimulation; irritation.

This is that acid spirit which with such activity and compunction invadeth the brains and nostrils. Sir T. Browne.

2. The stinging or pricking of the conscience or of the heart; regret, as for wrong-doing or for causing pain to some one; uneasiness caused by tenderness of conscience or feelings; contrition; remorse. The compunction which such a man feels when he is obliged to punish those crimes in which he had so long and so freely indulged himself.' Bp. Hurd.

He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king with Clarendon, expressions of great compunction.

Compunctionless (kom-pungk'shon-les), a. Not feeling compunction. Compunctious (kom-pungk'shus), a. Causing compunction; stinging the conscience; causing misgiving. Compunctious visitings of nature.' Shak.

Compunctiously (kom-pungk'shus-li), adv. With compunction.

Compunctive † (kom-pungk'tiv), a. 1. Causing compunction.-2. Sensitive to remorse; capable of repentance.

Give me all faith, all charity, and a spirit highly compunctive. Fer. Taylor. Com-pupil (kom-pù'pil), n. A fellowpupil or student. Donne and his sometime com-pupil in Cambridge Samuel Brook.' 1z. Walton. [Rare.] Compurgation (kom-per-ga'shon), n. [L. compurgo-com, and purgo, to purge or purify.] An ancient mode of trial in England, where the accused was permitted to call a certain number of persons who joined their oaths to his in testimony to his innocence. They were persons taken from the neighbourhood, or otherwise known to the accused, and acted rather in the character of jurymen than that of witnesses, for they swore to their belief, not to what they knew; that is, on the accused making oath of his innocence they swore that they believed he was speaking the truth. Compurgation in the ecclesiastical courts was not abolished till the reign of Elizabeth. Compurgator (kom'per-ga-ter), n. One who by oath justifies another's innocence. See COMPURGATION. Compurgatorial (kom'pèr-gå-tō"ri-al), a. Relating to compurgation.

The consuls of Avignon, Nismes, and St. Gilles took their compurgatorial oath to his fulfilment of Mamman. all these stipulations. Compursion † (kom-pèr'shon), n. A pursing up or wrinkling together. Compursions of the mouth.' Sterne. [Rare.]

Computability (kom-put'a-bil'i-ti), n. The Computable (kom-put'a-bl), a. Capable of quality of being computable.

being computed, numbered, or reckoned. 'Not easily computable by arithmetic, Sir M. Hale.

Computate (kom'pu-tāt), v.t. Same as Compute. Cockeram.

Computation (kom-pů - ta 'shon). n. [L. computatio, from computo. See COMPUTE.] 1. The act or process of computing, reckoning, or estimating; calculation. By just computation of the time.' Shak By our best computation we were then in 51 degrees of latitude. Hackingt 2. The result of a computation; the sum, quantity, or amount ascertained by computing or reckoning.

We pass for women of fifty: many additional years are thrown into female computations of this nature. Addison. SYN. Reckoning, calculation, estimate, account.

CONCEDE

4. In Eng. hist. property concealed from the commissioners for the dissolution of monasteries, &c., at the time of the Reformation. 5. † Secret knowledge; a secret.

Shak.

A worthy gentleman Exceedingly well read, and profited In strange concealments. SYN. Secrecy, disguise, hiding, retreat, hiding-place.

Concede (kon- sēd'), v.t. pret. & pp. conceded; ppr. conceding. [L. concedo, to go with, give way, to yield-con, together, and cedo, to go, yield.] 1. To admit as true, just, or proper; to grant; to let pass undisputed; as, the advocate concedes the point in question. 'Assumed as a principle to prove another thing which is not conceded as true itself.' Sir T. Browne. Often governing a clause introduced by that.

So far from conceding that the creations of art are unreal, there is a sense in which it may be maintained that all great works of art are more real... than the matter-of-fact world, for which exclusive reality is claimed. Dr. Caird.

2. To make a concession of; to grant as a privilege; to yield up; to grant; to allow; to surrender; as, the Egyptian government conceded the privilege of cutting the Suez Canal to a Frenchman.

Concede (kon-sēd'), v. i. To make concession; to grant a request or petition; to yield.

I wished you to concede to America at a time when she prayed concession at your feet. Burke. Conceder (kon-sēd'ér), n. One who concedes.

Conceit (kon-set'), n. [0. E. conseyte, conceipt, O. Fr. concept, from L. conceptus, a receiving, conception, from concipio, to conceive con, and capio, to take or seize; comp. deceit, receipt.] 1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; conception; idea; thought; image.

In laughing there ever precedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous, and therefore it is proper to man. Bacon. 2. Power or faculty of conceiving; understanding; apprehension.

How often did her eyes say to me that they loved! yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them. Sir P. Sidney.

3. Opinion; estimation; view or belief.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a fool than of him. Prov. xxvi. 12. By a little studying in learning and a great conceit of himself he has lost his religion. Bentley.

4. An ill-grounded opinion; a baseless fancy; a crotchety notion.

The form which this conceit usually assumes is that of supposing that nature lends more assistance to human endeavours in agriculture than in manufac F. S. Mill.

tures.

5. An ill-grounded opinion of one's own importance; self-conceit; vanity; as, a person full of conceit. Plumed with conceit.' Cotton. 6. A witty, happy, or ingenious thought or expression; something witty, amusing, or well-conceived; a quaint or humorous fancy; wit; humour; ingenuity: in modern usage it is more especially applied to a quaint or odd thought or fancy out of place; a thought or expression intended to be striking or poetical, but rather farfetched, insipid, or pedantic.

His wit is as thick as Tewksbury mustard: there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet. Shak.

The later writers, in order to gain more applause, deviated in some manner from the spirit of Petrarch, seeking ingenious thoughts, florid conceits, splendid ornaments. Hallam.

- Out of conceit with, not having a favourable opinion of; no longer pleased with.

What hath chiefly put me out of conceit with this moving manner, is the frequent disappointment. Swift. Conceit (kon-sēt'), v.t. 1. To conceive; to imagine; to think; to form an idea of One of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a murderer. Shak.

2. With the reflexive pronoun, to imagine wrongly; to err in believing. [Rare.]

The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are thereby rendered inactive. South.

We conceit ourselves that we contemplate absolute existence when we only speculate absolute privation. Sir W. Hamilton.

Conceit (kon-set'), v.i. To form a notion; to conceive. Those whose vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes. Milton.

Conceited (kon-sēt'ed), a. 1. Endowed with fancy or imagination; ingenious; well or wittily conceived or expressed. ⚫ Conceited masques, rich banquets.' Drayton 'An admirable conceited fellow.' Shak. 'Active of body, pleasantly conceited, and sharp of

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wit.' Knolles.-2.† Ingeniously or curiously contrived; fanciful. A conceited chair to sleep in. Evelyn.-3. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; self-conceited; vain; egotistical. 'Some empty conceited heads. Felton. It may have of before the object of conceit. 'How conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.' Bentley. Conceitedly (kon-set'ed-li), adv. 1. In a conceited manner; with vanity or egotism; as, he spoke conceitedly of his attainments. 2.1 Wittily; ingeniously. Cicero most pleassantly and conceitedly (said).' Holland.— 3. Fancifully; whimsically. Conceitedly

Conceivable (kon-sev'a-bl), a. Capable of being conceived, thought, imagined, or understood. Whereby any conceivable weight may be moved by any conceivable power.' Bp. Wilkins.

If.. those propositions only are conceivable of which subject and predicate are capable of unity of representation, then is the subjectivity of space inconceivable. H. Spencer.

Conceivableness (kon-sev'a-bl-nes), n. The quality of being conceivable. H. Spencer. Conceivably (kon-sev'a-bli), adv. In a conceivable or intelligible manner. Sir T. Browne; Whately.

Conceive (kon-sev'), v.t. pret. & pp. conceived; ppr. conceiving. [0. Fr. concever, conceveir, Fr. concevoir, from L. concipere, to conceive, perceive, receive, comprise- con, together, and capio, to take, receive.] 1. To become pregnant with; to develop in the womb in an embryonic state. 'Sinful man conceived and born in sin.' Tennyson.

She hath also conceived a son in her old age.
Luke i. 36.

2. To form in the mind; to devise.
Nebuchadnezzar hath conceived a purpose against
you.
Jer. xlix. 30.
It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first
conceived the idea of a work which has amused and
exercised near twenty years of my life. Gibbon.
3. To realize in the mind; to form a con-
ception of; to place distinctly before the
thoughts; to comprehend: often used as a
specific term in philosophy. See CONCEP-
TION, 2.

We can neither conceive, on the one hand, an ultimate minimum of space or time: nor can we, on the other, conceive their infinite divisibility. In like manner, we cannot conceive the absolute commencement of time, nor the utmost limit of space, and are yet equally unable to conceive them without any com mencement or limit. Sir W. Hamilton.

4. To think; to imagine; to suppose pos

sible.

You can hardly concerve this man to have been bred in the same climate. Swift.

5. To admit into the mind; to feel. Such a pleasure as incaged birds conceive.' Shak. 6. To become aware of or acquainted with. Conceiving the dishonour of his mother He straight declined, droop'd, took it deeply, Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself. Shak. 7. To express; to embody in words; as, I received a letter conceived in the following terms. [An incorrect use of the word.]SYN. To apprehend, imagine, suppose, understand, comprehend, believe, think. Conceive (kon-sév′), v.i. 1. To have a fetus formed in the womb; to become pregnant. Thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. Judg. xiii. 3. 2.† To hold an opinion: with of.

The grieved commons
Hardly conceive of me: let it be nois'd
That through our intercession this revokement
And pardon comes.
Shak

3. To have or form a conception or idea; to think: with of.

Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures; conceive of things completely in all their parts. Watts. Conceiver (kon-sev'èr), n. One that conceives. Sir T. Browne.

Concelebratet (kon-sel'ē-brát), v.t. [L. concelebro] To celebrate together. Sherwood.

CONCENTRIC

Concentt (kon-sent'), n. [L. concentus, from concino, to sing in accordance-con, and cano, to sing.] 1. Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony. That undisturbed song of pure concent. Milton.--2. Consistency; accordance. In concent to his own principles.' Atterbury.

Concent (kon-sent'), v. t. To make to accord; to harmonize.

Such musick is wise words, with time concented. Spenser. Concentfult (kon-sent'ful), a. Harmonious. So concentful an harmony.' Fotherby. Concentrate (kon-sen'trat or kon'sen-trāt), v.t. pret. & pp. concentrated; ppr. concentrating. [See CONCENTRE.] 1. To bring to a common centre or point of union; to cause to come together; to bring nearer to each other; to bring to bear on one point; to direct towards one object; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus.

He hastily concentrated his whole force at his own camp. Motley. The magistracy are now concentrating their efforts on the suppression of begging. Examiner newspaper. 2. In chemical manipulations, to intensify by removing non-essential matter; to reduce to a state of great strength and purity; to rectify. 'Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength.' Arbuthnot. See CONCENTRATION (b).

Concentrate (kon-sen'trät or kon'sen-trát). v.i. To approach or meet in a common point or centre.

Concentrated (kon-sen'trat-ed or kon'sentrât-ed), p. and a. 1. Brought to a common point or centre.-2. Increased in strength by concentration (which see); as, a concentrated solution of morphia; concentrated sulphuric acid.-3. In pathol. a term applied to the pulse when there is a contracted condition of the artery.

Concentration (kon-sen-trä'shon), n.

The

act of concentrating; as, (a) the act of collecting into a central point; the act of directing to one object; the state of being brought to a common point or centre; as, the concentration of troops in one place; the concentration of one's energies.

The evidence of superior genius is the power of intellectual concentration. B. R. Haydon.

(b) In chem. the act of increasing the strength of fluids by volatilizing part of their water The matter to be concentrated must, therefore, be less readily evaporated than water, as sulphuric and phosphoric acids, solutions of alkalies, &c.

One

Concentrative (kon-sen'tra-tiv),a. Tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration. 'A concentrative act, or act of attention.' Sir W. Hamilton. Concentrativeness (kon-sen'tra-tiv-nes), n. The quality or faculty of concentrating; specifically, in phren. one of the propensities whose function is supposed to bestow the power of concentrating two or more mental powers at one and the same time upon any particular object. Concentrator (kon'sen-tra-tér), n. who or that which concentrates; specifically, an apparatus for the separation of dry, comminuted ore, according to the gravity of its particles, by exposing a falling sheet of ore dust to intermittent puffs of air. E. H. Knight. Concentre (kon-sen'tèr), v.i. pret. & pp. concentred; ppr. concentring. [Fr. concentrer L. con, together, and centrum, a centre.] To converge to or meet in a common centre; to combine or be united in one object. God, in whom all perfections concentre. Bp. Beveridge.

All these are like so many lines drawn from several objects, that in some way relate to him, and concentre in him. Sir M. Hale. Concentre (kon-sen'těr), v.t. To draw or direct to a common centre; to bring together. to concentrate. In the concentring all their precious beams.' Milton. The wretch concentred all in self.' Sir W. Scott.

By no other intellectual application is the soul thus reflected on itself, and its faculties concentred in such independent, vigorous, unwonted, and continuous energy. Sir W. Hamilton.

Concentric (kon-sen'trik), a. [L concentricus -con, and centrum, centre.] Having a common centre; as, concentric circles, ellipses, spheres, &c.; the concentric coats of onions, or bulbs with many layers; the concentric orbits of the planets. Concentric circles upon the surface of the water.' Newton. Those, like so many spheres, but one heaven make, For they are all concentric unto thee. Donne

CONCENTRICAL

Concentrical (kon-sen'trik-al), a. Same as Concentric. Boyle; Arbuthnot. Concentrically (kon-sen'trik-al-li), adv. In a concentric manner; in a common centre.

All the torrents which descend from the southern side of the Alps, and from the northern slope of the Apennines, meet concentrically in the recess or mountain bay which the two ridges inclose. Concentricate (kon-sen'tri-kät), v.t. Ruskin. concentrate. Latham.

Concentricity (kon-sen-tris'i-ti), n. of being concentric.

To

State

Concentual (kon-sen'tū-al), a. [From concent.] Harmonious; accordant. "This consummate or concentual song of the ninth sphere. T. Warton. [Rare.] Concept (kon'sept), n.

The subject of a conception; the object conceived by the mind; a notion.

(Kant and his followers) say they are of three kinds-1. Pure concepts, which borrow nothing from experience; as the notions of cause, time, and space. 2. Empirical concepts, which are altogether derived from experience; as the notion of colour or pleasure. 3. Mixed concepts, composed of elements furnished partly by experience and partly by the pure understanding. Fleming.

Conceptacle (kon-sep'ta-kl), n. [L. concep taculum, from concipio. See CONCEIVE.] 1. That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. Woodward. 2. In bot. the thickened capsular fruit of some algae, in which spores and antheridia are both contained. Applied also to a similar organ in the fungi.

Conceptibility + (konsep'ti-bil"i-ti), n, The quality of being conceivable. Cudworth.

Conceptible t

(kon

sep'ti-bl), a. [See CONCEIVABLE.] Capable of

Conceptacle of an Alga, embedded in cellular tissue.

Sir

being conceived; conceivable; intelligible. 'Attributes easily conceptible by us.' M. Hale. Conception (kon-sep'shon), n. [L. conceptio, from concipio. See CONCEIVE.] 1. The act of conceiving; the first formation of the embryo of an animal.

tion.

I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy concep Gen. iii. 16. Fig.

Joy had the like conception in our eyes. Shak. 2. The act of conceiving in the mind; the power of conceiving in the mind; that which is conceived in the mind; as, (a) a product of the imaginative or inventive faculty. The conceptions of its poets, the creations of its sculptors.' Dr. Caird. (b) In philos. (1) that mental act or combination of acts by which an absent object of perception is brought before the mind by the imagination. In this sense we form a conception of a book, when we imagine a book, although the book imagined must have a definite size, form, and colour, none of which is included in the meaning of the word 'book."

Under the article of conception, I shall confine myself to that faculty whose province it is to enable us to form a notion of past sensations, or of the objects of sense that we have formerly perceived. Stewart.

Mr. Stewart has even bestowed on the reproductive imagination the term Conception;-happily, we do not think; as both in grammatical propriety, and by the older and correcter usage of philosophers, this term (or rather the product of this operation--Concept) is convertible with general notion, or more correctly, notion, simply, and in this sense is admirably rendered by the Begriff (what is grasped up) of the Germans. Sir W. Hamilton.

(2) That which constitutes the meaning of a word, and which is not capable of being presented to the mind by a single act of imagination; a notion; also the mental operation by which such notions or conceptions are formed. In this sense we form the conception of a book when we consider the attributes of a book together, and recognize them as existing in a number of individual instances which form a class by themselves in virtue of this fact.

The first and most important of (the three concep tions round which the speculation carried on by Kant and Fichte clusters), is what we have called the metaphysical conception-the conception of immaterial substance. Substance, the perdurable basis of all phenomena, is the deepest thought of metaphysical speculation. Scotsman newspaper. See also the extract from Sir W. Hamilton above. (c) Thought, notion, or idea in the

loose sense; as, you have no conception how Concernancyt (kon-sèr'nan-si), n. Concern; clever he is.

But a religion whose object was the truth was at this time so unknown a thing that a pagan magistrate could have no conception of it but as a new sect of philosophy. Warburton.

3. A conceit; a fanciful thought. 'Full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms. Dryden.-Immaculate conception. See IMMACULATE.-SYN. Notion, idea, image, thought, concept, apprehension, sentiment,

view.

Conceptional (kon-sep'shon-al), a. Pertaining to or having the nature of a conception or notion.

There is movement in the whole vocabulary of language, from the designation of what is coarser, grosser, more material, to the designation of what is finer, more abstract and conceptional, more formal. Whitney. Conceptionalist (kon-sep'shon-al-ist), n. A conceptualist. Conceptious (kon-sep'shus), a. conceive; fruitful. Thy fertile and conApt to ceptious womb.' Shak. Conceptive (kon-sep'tiv), a. Capable of conceiving; (a) physically."

The uterine parts may be reduced into a conceptive constitution. Sir T. Browne.

(b) Mentally.

not.

business; import. Shak.

Concerned (kon-sérnd'), p. and a. Having concern; interested; engaged; anxious. Concernedly (kon-sern'ed-li), adv. In a concerned manner; with anxiety or solicitude; with interest. Clarendon Concernedness (kon-sérn'ed-nes), n. State of being concerned. 'Earnestness and conConcerning (kon-ser'ning), prep. Pertaincernedness.' Abp. Sharp. ing to; regarding; with relation to. [This word, originally a participle, is now fully established as a preposition, being freely used without being made to agree with any other word.]

I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken. Concerning + (kon-sér'ning), a. Important. Gen. xix. 21. So great and so concerning a truth.' South. Concerning† (kon-ser'ning), n. Affair of importance; concern; business.

We shall write to you

As time and our concernings shall importune. Shak. Concernment (kon-sern'ment), n. thing in which one is concerned or inter1. A ested; concern; affair; business; interest. Propositions which extend only to the present life are small, compared with those that have influence upon our everlasting concernments. Watts.

The great concernment of men is with men. Locke. 2. State of concerning or bearing upon the interest or happiness of one; importance; moment.

He justly fears a peace would prove

Of ill concernment to his haughty love. Dryden. Experimental truths are matters of great concernment to mankind. Boyle.

3. State of being concerned or occupied; interference; participation.

He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her to come into his presence. Clarendon.

4. State of being concerned or anxious; concern; solicitude; anxiety.

Their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden. Concert (kon-sèrt'), v. t. [Fr. concerter, from It. concertare, to concert, to contrive, apparently from L. con, together, and certare, to contend, but rather misspelled from L. consero, consertus, to join together, to unite, to employ.] 1. To contrive and settle by mutual communication of opinions or propositions; to settle or adjust, as a plan or system to be pursued, by conference or agreement of two or more parties; as, to concert a scheme.

The two rogues, having concerted their plan, parted company. Defoe.

2. To plan; to devise.

A commander had more trouble to concert his defence before the people than to plan the operations of a campaign. Burke.

3. [From the noun concert.] To sing in concert. [Rare.]

And we, with Nature's heart in tune, Concerted harmonies. Motherwell. Concert (kon-sêrt'), v. i. To act in concert: with with. [Rare.]

The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. Bp. Burnet. Concert (kon'sért), n. [From above verb, but in 2 and following meanings the L. concentus, a singing together, seems to have had an influence.] 1. Agreement of two or more in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; as, the emperor and the pope acted in concert.

All these discontents have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift.

2. The music of a company of players or singers, or of both united; a public or private musical entertainment, at which a number of vocalists or instrumentalists, or both, perform singly or combined.-3. Any public musical entertainment.-4. In music, concord; harmony.

Compositions, called playhouse or act tunes, were written and played in concert, and not in unison as formerly. Stainer & Barrett.

-Concert pitch. See PITCH. Concertante (kon-char-tan'tā), n. [It. ppr. of concertare, to form a concert.] A piece of music composed for several principal instruments or voices, with an accompaniment for the band, differing from a concerto, which has but one principal instrument. Concertationt (kon-ser-ta'shon), n. [

, wig; wh, whig; zh, azure.-See KEY

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certatio, a contending together. See CONCERT, v.t.] Strife; contention.

After the concertation when they could not agree, the king coming between them, called away the bishops from the monks. Foxe. Concertativet (kon-ser'ta-tiv), a. Contentious; quarrelsome. Bailey. Concerted (kon-sèrt'ed), p. and a. Mutually contrived or planned; as, a concerted scheme. -Concerted piece, in music, a composition in parts for several voices or instruments, as a trio, a quartet, &c.

Concertina (kon-sér-te'na), n. [From concert. ] A musical instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, the principle of which is similar to that of the accordion. It is composed of a bellows, with two faces or ends, generally polygonal in shape, on which are placed the various stops or studs, by the action of which air is admitted to the free metallic reeds which produce the sounds. In the English concertina the finger-stops are in four rows, the two inner rows being confined to the notes of the natural scale, and the two outer to the sharps and flats. The compass of the instrument is three octaves and three notes, and the sounds in the scale are double, that is, in pressing a stud the same note is produced when the bellows is drawn out as when it is pushed in. The German concertina is an inferior instrument, having a less extensive compass, and being capable of producing music only in a very limited number of keys, while the English concertina can be played in any key. Concertion (kon-sér'shon), n. Concert; contrivance; adjustment. Young. Concertment (kon-sért'ment), n. The act of concerting. R. Pollok. [Rare.] Concerto (kon-char'to), n. [It] A piece of music for a concert; originally, a composition in which many performers played in unison, but in which one or two instruments took the lead; but now a species of composition, usually in a symphonic form, written for one principal instrument, with accompaniments for a full orchestra. Concession (kon-se'shon), n. [L. concessio, from concedo. See CONCEDE.] 1. The act of conceding, granting, or yielding: usually implying a demand, claim, or request from the party to whom it is made. mitted by the concession of God.' Jer. Tay

lor.

Not per

The concession of these charters was in a parliaSir M. Hale. mentary way. By some mutual concessions the business was adjusted. Hallam.

Specifically, in rhet. the yielding, granting, or allowing to the opposite party some point or fact that may bear dispute, with a view to obtain something which cannot be denied, or to show that even admitting the point conceded, the cause is not with the adverse party, but can be maintained by the advocate on other grounds.-2. The thing yielded; a grant.

A gift of more worth, in a temporal view, was the grant to the king of the cruzada, the excusada, and other concessions of ecclesiastical revenue. Prescott. [This sense has been specially applied to grants of land, privileges, or immunities to certain individuals or companies to enable or empower them to do certain things, as to construct railways, canals, &c.

A Frenchman has obtained the concession (the privilege of making the Suez Canal), and it may be executed by French engineers and French workmen. Edin. Rev.] Concessionary (kon-se'shon-ar-i),a. Yielding by indulgence or allowance. Bailey. Concessionary (kon-se'shon-ar-i), n. A concessionnaire.

Concessionist (kon-se'shon-ist), n. One who makes or favours concession. Quart. Rev. Concessionnaire (kon-ses-syon-ar), n. [Fr.] A person to whom a privilege or concession has been made; a grantee.

Concessive (kon-ses'iv), a. Implying conces sion. A concessive conjunction.' Bp. Lowth. Concessively (kon-ses'iv-li), adv. By way of concession or yielding; by way of admitting what may be disputable.

Some have written rhetorically and concessively. Sir T. Browne. Concessory (kon-ses'or-i), a. Conceding; permissive. [Rare.]

These laws are not prohibitive, but concessory. Fer. Taylor. Concete, n. Conception; apprehension. Chaucer. Concettism (kon-set'tizm), n. The use of affected wit or concetti. Kingsley. Concetto (kon-chet'to), n. pl. Concetti (konchet'te). [It. See CONCEIT.] Affected wit;

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an ingenious thought or turn of expression; a conceit.A kind of counter-taste founded on surprise and curiosity which may be expressed by the concetto." Shenstone. Concetti and antitheses.' Chesterfield. Conch (kongk), n. [L. concha, Gr. kongche, Skr. çankha, a shell.] 1. A marine shell, especially that of the Strombus gigas, sometimes called fountain shell, from its use in gardens. 'Orient pearls which from the conchs he drew.' Dryden.-2. A spiral shell used by the mythological divinities called Tritons as a trumpet.

There is the Trophonius' cave in which, by some artifice, the leaden Tritons are made not only to spout water, but to play the most dreadful groans out of their lead conchs. Thackeray.

3. The external portion of the ear, more especially the hollow part of it. Called also Concha. 4. In arch. the plain ribless surface of a vault or pendentive; the semidome of an apse; the apse itself. The conch or apse before which stood the high altar.' Milman. Called also Concha. See APSE.5. One of the inhabitants of the Bahamas and other neighbouring islands: so called by way of nickname from the commonness of the conch-shell there. The aforesaid postmaster, a stout conch, with a square-cut coatee and red cape and cuffs.' Mich. Scott. Concha (kong'ka), n. Same as Conch, 3 and 4. Conchaceat (kong-kā'se-a). Same as Conchifera.

Conchifer (kong'ki-fér), n. [L. concha, a shell, and fero, to bear.] A mollusc of the class Conchifera.

Conchifera (kong-kif'êr-a), n. pl. [L. concha, a shell, and fero, to carry.] Lamarck's name for that large class of acephalousmolluscous animals which are protected by shells consisting of two pieces, and commonly known by the name of bivalves. They include the Lamellibranchiata and the Brachiopoda, which two classes, however, differ widely from one another.

Conchiferous (kong-kif'êr-us), a. Belonging to the Conchifera. The conchiferous or bivalve Acephala.' R. Garner. Conchiform (kong'ki-form), a. [L. concha, a shell, and forma, shape.] Shell-shaped. Conchitet (kong'kit), n. A fossil conch or shell. Bp. Nicolson, Conchitic (kong-kit'ik), a. Composed of shells; containing shells in abundance: applied to limestones, and marbles in which the remains of shells are a noticeable feature. Page.

Conchoid (kongʻkoid), n. [Gr. kongchoeidēs, from kongche, a shell, and eidos, form.] The name of a curve of the fourth order, given to it by its inventor Nicomedes. Conchoidal (kong-koi'dal), a. In mineral. having convex elevations and concave depressions like shells: applied principally to a surface produced by breaking, certain minerals being said to have a conchoidal fracture.

Conchological (kong-kō-loj'ik-al), a. Pertaining to conchology. The conchological labours of Linnæus and his followers.' Ency. Brit.

Conchologist (kong-kol'o-jist) n. 1. One versed in conchology. 2. The name given to the carrier shells (genus Phorus), from their often attaching shells to the margins of their whorls as they grow. Conchology (kong-kol'o-ji), n. [Gr. kongche, a shell, and logos, discourse.] The science of shells; that department of zoology which treats of the nature, formation, and classification of the shells with which the bodies of many mollusca are protected; or the word may be used also to include a knowledge of the animals themselves, in which case it is equivalent to malacology. In systems of conchology shells are usually divided into three orders, Univalves, Bivalves, and Multivalves, according to the number of plates of which they are composed. Conchometer (kong-kom'et-ér), n. [Gr. kongche, a shell, and metron, a measure.] An instrument for measuring molluscous shells and the angle of their spire. Concho-spiral (kong'ko-spi-ral), n. A variety of spiral curve existing in certain shells. Agassiz. Conchylaceous, Conchyliaceous (kongki-la'shus, kong-kil'i-a'shus), a. [L conchylium, from Gr. kongchylion, dim. of kongche, | a shell] Pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. Conchyliologist, Conchyliology (kongkili-olo-jist, kong-kil'i-ol"o-ji). [From L.

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conchylium. See above.] Forms sometimes formerly used as synonyms of Conchologist and Conchology.

Conchyliometry (kong-kil'i-om"et-ri), n. [L. conchylium (see above), and Gr. metron, measure.] The art or science of measuring shells or their curves.

Conchylious (kong-kil'i-us), a. [L. conchylium. See above.] Belonging or pertaining

to the shelled mollusca. Conciator (kon'shi-a-tér), n. [L.L. conciare, conciatum, to refit, from comptus, pp. of comere, to dress, adorn.] In glass-making, the person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass. Concierge (kon-syārzh), n. [Fr.] One who attends at the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a door-keeper to a hotel, house, prison, &c.; a janitor, male or female; a porter.

Conciliablet (kon-sil'i-a-bl), n. [L. conciliabulum, dim. of concilium, a council.] A small assembly; a conventicle.

Some have sought the truth in conventicles and conciliables of hereticks and sectaries. Басом. Conciliable (kon-sil'i-a-bl), a. Capable of being reconciled or conciliated.

Nor doth he put away adulterously who complains of causes rooted in inmutable nature, utter unfitness, utter disconformity, not conciliable, because not to be amended without a miracle. Milton,

Conciliabule (kon-sil'i-a-bul), n. [See CONCILIABLE, n.] Eccles, a small assembly; an obscure council. Milman. [Rare.] Conciliar (kon - sil'i-ér), a. [From L. concilium, a council.] Pertaining or relating to a council. 'Conciliar debates.' Baker. Conciliary (kon-sil'i-a-ri), a. Same as Conciliar. Jer. Taylor.

Conciliate (kon-sil'i-at), v. t. pret. & pp. conciliated; ppr. conciliating. [L. concilio, conciliatum, to bring together, unite, as in thought or feeling, from concilium, plan, purpose, council. See COUNCIL.] 1. To reconcile or bring to state of friendship; to make friendly or satisfied; to pacify; to soothe.

The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation. Hallam.

2. To lead or draw to by moral influence or power; to win, gain, or engage, by something adapted to secure regard or favour.

Christ's other miracles ought to have conciliated belief to his doctrine from the Jews. Cudworth.

It were to be supposed that these evangelists and apostolical men and founders of uncorrupted Christianity in many places, had the power of working miracles, to introduce themselves to strangers, and to conciliate their regard and respect. Fortin. 3. To gain or secure by a secret though not moral influence. A philtre, or plants that conciliate affection.' Sir T. Browne. [Rare.] 4. To reconcile, harmonize, or show to be compatible. SYN. To win, gain, engage, propitiate, reconcile, appease. Conciliating (kon-sil'i-at-ing), a. Winning; pacifying; having the quality of gaining favour; as, a conciliating address. Conciliation (kon-sil'i-a"shon), n. 1. The act of reconciling persons at variance; the act of making friends; as, he applied himself to the conciliation of the rival lords.

The house has gone farther; it has declared conciliation admissible previous to any submission on Burke. the part of America.

2. The act of winning or gaining; as, the conciliation of favour, esteem, affection, and the like.-3. The act of reconciling, or rendering or showing to be compatible; the act of harmonizing or showing to be in har

mony.

St. Austin repeatedly declares the conciliation of the foreknowledge, predestination, and free grace of God with the free will of man, to be a most difficult question, intelligible only to few. Sir IV. Hamilton. Conciliative (kon-sil'i-a-tiv), a. Reconciling; pacific; conciliatory. Coleridge. Conciliator (kon-sil'i-a-tèr), n. One who The conciliator

conciliates or reconciles.

of Christendom.' Bp. Hacket. Conciliatory (kon-síl'i-a-tor-i), a. Tending to conciliate or reconcile; tending to make peace between persons at variance; pacific; as, the general made conciliatory propositions to the insurgents; the legislature adopted conciliatory measures. *The amiable, conciliatory virtues of lenity, moderation, and tenderness to the privileges of those who depend on this kingdom.' Burke. SYN. Pacific, winning, engaging. Concinnatet (kon-sin'ät), v.t. (L. concinno, concinnatum. See CONCINNITY.] To place fitly or becomingly together; to make neat;