Propositions which extend only to the present life, are small, compared with those that have influence upon our everlasting concernments. Watts on the Mind. 2. Relation; influence. Sir, 't is of near concernment, and imports No less than the king's life and honour. Denh. He justly fears a peace with me would prove Of ill concernment to his haughty love. Dryden. 3. Intercourse; business. The great concernment of men is with men, ope amongst another. Locke. 4. Importance; moment. I look upon experimental truths as matters of great concernment to mankind. Boyle. 5. Interposition; regard; meddling. 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. 6. Passion; emotion of mind. While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden. If it carry with it the notion of something extraordinary, if apprehension and concernment accompany it, the idea is likely to sink the deeper. Locke. To CONCERT. v. a. [concerter, Fr. from concertare, Latin, to prepare themselves for some publick exhibition, or performance, by private encounters among themselves.] 1. To settle any thing in private by mutual communication. 2. To settle; to contrive; to adjust. CO'NCERT. n. J. [from the verb.] All those discontents, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift. CONCH. n. s. [concha, Lat.] A shell; a sea-shell. He furnishes her closet first, and hills The crowded shelves with rarities of shells: Adds orient pearls, which from the concha bes drew, And all the sparkling stones of various hue. Dryden's Fable Co'NCHOID. n. s. The name of a curve. CONCILIAR. adj. [concilium, Lat.] Relating to a council. Baker. Having been framed by men of primitive sir plicity, in free and conciliar debates, without any ambitious regards. To CONCILIATE. v. a. [concilio, Lat.] To gain; to win; to reconcile. It was accounted a philtre, or plants that co ciliate affection. Brotun's Vulgar Errari CONCILIATION. n. s. [from conciliate.] The act of gaining or reconciling. Dict CONCILIATOR. n. s. [from conciliate] One that makes peace between others. CONCILIATORY. adj. [from conciliate.] Relating to reconciliation. CONCINNITY. n. s. [from concinnitas, Lat.] Decency; fitness; neatness. CONCI'NNOUS. adj. [concinnus, Lat.] Becoming; pleasant; agreeable. CO'NCIONATORY. adj. [concionatorius, concio, Lat.] Used at preachings of publick assemblies. Dict Their comeliness unbeguiled the vulgar of the old opinion the loyalists had formerly infused into them by their concionatory invectives. Heuch CONCI'SE. adj. [concisus, cut, Latin.] Brief; short; broken into short periods The concise stile, which expresseth not enough but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jon Where the author is obscure, enlighten hin where he is too brief and concise, amplify a lit and set his notions in a fairer view. CONCISELY.adv. [from concise.] Briefly; shortly; in few words; in short sen tences. Ulysses here speaks very concisely, and he may seem to break abruptly into the subject. Br CONCI'SENESS. n. s. [from concise.] Brovity; shortness. Giving more scope to Mezentius and Lause, that version, which has more of the majesty Virgil, has less of his conciseness. Dry CONCI'SION, n. s. [concisum, Lat.] Cutting off; excision; destruction. CONCITA'TION. n. s. [concitatio, Latin) The act of stirring up, or putting motion. The revelations of heaven are conceived by immediate illumination of the soul; wherea deceiving spirit, by concitation of humours, pro Brows duces conceited phantasmes. CONCLAMATION. n. s. [conclaratie, Le' i An outcry or shout of many together. CONCLAVE. n. s. [conclave, Latin.] 1. A private apartment. 2. The room in which the cardinals mect; or, the assembly of the cardinals. I thank the holy conclave for their loves; They've sent me such a man I would have Shakspear wish'd for. It was said of a cardinal, by reason of his parent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chairs Is it concluded he shall be protector? Bacon. These are my theme, and how the war began, And how concluded by the godlike man. Dryden. 6. To oblige, as by the final determination. The king would never endure that the base multitude should frustrate the authority of the parliament, wherein their votes and consents Bacon's Henry VII. were concluded. If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation, they must be concluded by it. Hale's Origin of Mankind, He never refused to be concluded by the authoAtterbury. rity of one legally summoned. To CONCLUʼDE. V. n. 1. To perform the last act of ratiocination; to collect the consequence; to determine. Davies. For why should we the busy soul believe, When boldly she concludes of that and this; When of herself she can no judgment give, Nor how, nor whence, nor where, nor what she is? The blind man's relations import no necessity of concluding, that though black was the roughest of colours, therefore white should be the smoothBoyle. There is something infamous in the very attempt: the world will conclude I had a guilty Arbuthnot. conscience. est. 2. To settle opinion. Can we conclude upon Luther's instability, as They humbly sue unto your excellence, 4. To end. And all around wore nuptial bonds, the ties We'll tell when 't is enough, King Or if it wants the nice concluding bout. Judgment concerning things to be known, or CONCLUDENT. adj. [from conclude.] De- Though these kind of arguments may seem Examine whether the opinion you meet with, repugnant to what you were formerly embued with, be concludingly demonstrated or not. Digby. CONCLU'SIBLE. adj. [from conclude.] Determinable; certain by regular proof." "T is as certain conclusible from God's prescience, that they will voluntarily do this, as Hammond that they will do it at all. CONCLUSION. n. s. [from conclude.] 1. Determination; final decision. Ways of peaceable conclusion there are but these two certain: the one a sentence of judicial decision, given by authority thereto appointed within ourselves; the other, the like kind of sentence given by a more universal authority. Hooker. 2. The collection from propositions premised; the consequence. 3. The conclusion of experience, from the time past to the time present, will not be sound and Bacon's War with Spain. perfect. And marrying divers principles and grounds, Out of their match a true conclusion brings. Then doth the wit Davies. Build fond conclusions on those idle grounds; Such as are lawful, and judge by Hudibras. It is of the nature of principles to yield a canTillotson. clusion different from themselves. He granted him both the major and the minor; Addison. but denied him the conclusion. The close; the last result of argumentative deduction. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for Eccles. this is the whole duty of man. I have been reasoning, and in conclusion have thought it best to return to what fortune hath Swift. made my home. 4. The event of experiments; experiment. Her physician tells me, She has pursued conclusions infinite Of easy ways to die. Shakspeare. We practise likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating, as well of wild trees as fruit Bacon's New Atalantis. trees. 5. The end; the last part. I can speak no longer; yet I will strain myself to breathe out this one invocation, which Howel. shall be my conclusion. 6. In Shakspeare it seems to signify silence; confinement of the thoughts. Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour, Demuring upon me. Antony and Cleopatra. Rra CONCLUSIVE. adj. [from conclude.] T. Decisive; giving the last determination to the opinion. The agreeing votes of both houses were not by any law or reason conclusive to my judgment. King Charles. not The last dictate of the understanding always absolute in itself, nor conclusive to the will, yet it produces no antecedent nor external necessity. Bramball's Answer to Hobbes. They have secret reasons for what they seem to do, which, whatever they are, they must be equally conclusive for us as they were for them. Rogers. 2. Regularly consequential. Those that are not men of art, not knowing the true forms of syllogism, cannot know whether they are made in right and conclusive modes and figures. Locke. CONCLUSIVELY. adv. [from conclusive.] Decisively; with final determination. This I speak only to desire Eupolis not to speak peremptorily, or conclusively, touching the point of possibility, till they have heard me deduce the means of the execution. Bacon, CONCLUSIVENESS. n. s. [from conclusive.] Power of determining the opinion; regular consequence. Consideration of things to be known, of their several weights, conclusiveness, or evidence. Hale. To CONCOAGULATE. v. a. [from con and coagulate.] To curdle or congeal one thing with another. The saline parts of those, upon their solution by the rain, may work upon those other sub stances, formerly concoagulated with them. Boyle. They do but coagulate themselves, without soncoagulating with them any water. Boyle. CONCOAGULA'TION. n.s. [from concoagulate.] A coagulation by which different bodies are joined in one mass. To CONCOCT. v. a. [concoquo, Lat.] 1. To digest by the stomach, so as to turn food to nutriment. The working of purging medicines cometh two or three hours after the medicines taken; for that the stomach first maketh a proof, whether it can concoct them. Bacon. Assuredly he was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune, prosperous or adverse. Hayward. The vital functions are performed by general and constant laws; the food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play. Cheyne's Philos. Principles. The notions and sentiments of others judgment, as well as of our own memory, makes our property: it does, as it were, concoct our intellectual food, and turns it into a part of ourselves. Watts on the Mind. 2. To purify or sublime by heat; to heighten to perfection. The small close-lurking minister of fate, Whose high concocted venom through the veins A rapid lightning darts. Thomson's Summer. 3. To ripen. The constantest notion of concoction is, that t should signify the degrees of alteration of as body into another, from crudity to perfect m coction, which is the ultimity of that action t process. Bacon's Natural History, He, though he knew not which soul spake, Because both meant, both spake the same, Might thence a new concoction take, CONCO'LOUR. adj. [concolor, Latin.] Of And part far purer than he came. one colour without variety. In concolour animals, and such as are confined unto the same colour, we measure not the beauty thereby; for if a crow or blackbird grø white, we account it more pretty. Brow CONCOMITANCE. { n.`s. [from conconiCONCO'MITANCY. tor, Lat.] Subsist ence together with another thing. The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other; so the nosta are useful for respiration and smelling, but the principal use is smelling. - Brean To argue from a concomitancy to a causality, s Glam's not infallibly conclusive. CONCO'MITANT. adj. [concomiten, Lat.] Conjoined with; concurrent with coming and going with, as collateral, not causative or consequential. The spirit that furthereth the extension or dilatation of bodies, and is ever concomitant via porosity and dryness. Bar It has pleased our wise Creator to an several objects, as also to several of our though, a concomitant pleasure; and that in several jects, to several degrees. Late CONCO'MITANT. n. 5. Companion; peson or thing collaterally connected. These effects are, from the local motion of us air, a concomitant of the sound, and not from ** sound. Ban He made him the chief concomitant of his bat apparent and only son, in a journey of m adventure. Reproach is a concomitant to greatness, a tires and invectives were an essential part Roman triumph. And for tobacco, who could bear it? Filthy concomitant of claret! Prist Where antecedents, concomitants and comm quents, causes and effects, signs and things nified, subjects and adjuncts, are necessarily com nected with each other, we may infer. We CONCO'MITANTLY, adv. [from conce tant.] In company with others. Di To CONCOMITATE. v. a. [concomitatu. Lat.] To be collaterally connected with any thing; to come and go with another; to attend; to accompany. This simple bloody spectation of the lungs, differenced from that which con pleurisy. Harvey as Cossumptio CONCORD. n. s. [concordia, Latin. Agreement between persons or The root which continueth ever in the earth, is still concocted by the earth; and fruits and grains are half a year in concocting, whereas leaves are out and perfect in a month. Bacon. CONCOCTION. n. s. [from concoct.] Di-. gestion in the stomach; maturation by heat; the acceleration of any thing toward purity and perfection. This hard rolling is between concoction and a simple maturation. Bacon's Nat. Hist. things suitableness of one to another; peat; union; mutual kindness. Had I power, I should Pour the sweet milk of concerd into hell, Uproar the universal peace. Shalquers It appeareth by the concord made between Henry and Roderick the Irish king. 3. Harmony; concent of sounds. Davies. The man who hath not musick in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons. Shakspeare. 4. Principal grammatical relation of one. word to another, distinct from regimen. Have those who have writ about declensions, Concords, and syntaxes, lost their labour? Locke. CONCORDANCE. n. s. [concordantia, Lat.] 1. Agreement. 2. A book which shows in how many texts of scripture any word occurs. I shall take it for an opportunity to tell you how you are to rule the city, out of a concordance. South's Sermons, Dedication. Some of you turn over a concordance, and there, having the principal word, introduce as much of the verse as will serve your turn. Swift. An old concordance bound long since. Stift. 3. A concord in grammar; one of the three chief relations in speech. It is not now in use in this sense. After the three concordances learned, let the master read unto him the epistles of Cicero. Ascham. CONCO'RDANT. adj. [concordans, Lat.] Agreeable; agreeing; correspondent; harmonious. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Brotun. CONCORDATE. n. s. [concordat, Fr. concordatum, Latin.] A compact; a convention. How comes he to number the want of synods in the Gallican church among the grievances of that concordate, and as a mark of their slavery, since he reckons all convocations of the clergy in England to be useless and dangerous? Swift. CONCORPORAL. adj. [from concorporo, Lat. to incorporate.] Of the same body. Dict. To CONCO'RPORATE. v. a. [from con and corpus.] To unite in one mass or sub CONCOURSE. n. s. [concursus, Lat.] 1. The confluence of many persons or things to one place. Do all the nightly guards, The city's watches, with the people's fears, thing? The coalition of the good frame of the universe was not the product of chance, or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Halt. Vain is his force, and vainer is his skill, With such a concourse comes the flood of ill. Dryden's Fables. 2. The persons assembled. The prince with wonder hears, from ev'ry part, The noise and busy concourse of the mart. Dryd. 3. The point of junction or intersection of two bodies. So soon as the upper glass is laid upon the lower, so as to touch it at one end, and to touch the drop at the other end, making with the lower glass an angle of about ten or fifteen minutes; the drop will begin to move towards the concourse of the glasses, and will continue tomove with an accelerated motion till it arrives at that concourse of the glasses. Newton. CONCREMATION. n. s. [from concremo, Lat. to burn together.] The act of burning many things together. CO'NCREMENT. n. s. s. [from concresco, Lat.] The mass formed by concretion; a collection of matter growing together. Dict. There is the cohesion of the matter into a more loose consistency, like clay, and thereby it is prepared to the concrement of a pebble or flint.. Hale's Origin of Mankind. CONCRE'SCENCE. n. s. [from concresco, Lat.] The act or quality of growing by the union of separate particles. Seeing it is neither a substance perfect, nor inchoate, how any other substance should thence take contrescence hath not been taught. Raleigh. To CONCRETE. v. n. [concresco, Lat.] To coalesce into one mass; to grow by the union and cohesion of parts. The mineral or metallick matter, thus concreting with the crystalline, is equally diffused Woodward. throughout the body of it. When any saliné liquor is evaporated to a cuticle, and let cool, the salt concretes in regular figures; which argues that the particles of the salt, before they concreted, floated in the liquor at equal distances, in rank and file. Newton. The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete, by reason of the putrefaction begun. Arbuthnot. 1 CONCRETE. v. a. To form by concretion; to form by the coalition of scattered particles. Hals. That there are in our inferiour world divers bodies, that are concreted out of others, is beyond all dispute: we see it in the meteors. CONCRETE. adj. [from the verb.] 1. Formed by concretion; formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos, must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. Burnet. 2. [In logick.] Not abstract: applied to a subject. A kind of mutual commutation there is, whereby those concrete names, God and man, when we speak of Christ, do take interchangeably one another's room; to that, for truth of speech, it skilleth not whether we say that the son of God hath created the world, and the son of man by his death hath saved it; or else that the son of man did create, and the son of God died to save the world. Hooker. Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also either express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs; as white, round, long, broad, wise, mortal, living, dead: but these are not always noun adjectives in a grammatical sense; for a knave, a fool, a philosopher, and many other concretes, are substantives, as well as knavery, folly, and philosophy, which are the abstract terms that belong to them. Watts' Logick. CONCRETE. n. s. A mass formed by concretion, or union of various parts adhering to each other. If gold itself be admitted, as it must be, for a porous concrete, the proportion of void to body, in the texture of common air, will be so much the greater. Bentley's Sermons. CONCRETELY. adv. [from concrete.] In a manner including the subject with the predicate; not abstractly. Sin, considered not abstractedly for the mere act of obliquity, but concretely, with such a special dependance of it upon the will as serves to render the agent guilty. Norris. CONCRETENESS. n. s. [from concrete.] Coagulation; collection of fluids into a solid mass. Dict. CONCRETION, n. s. [from concrete.] 1. The act of concreting; coalition. 2. The mass formed by a coalition of separate particles. Some plants upon the top of the sea, are supposed to grow of some concretion of slime from the water, where the sea stirreth little. Bacon. Heat, in general, doth not resolve and attenuate the juices of a human body; for too great heat will produce concretions. Arbuthnot. CONCRETIVE. adj. [from concrete.] Having the power to produce concretions; coagulative. When wood and other bodies petrify, we do not ascribe their induration to cold, but unto salinous spirit, or concretive juices. Brown. CONCRE'TURE. n. s. [from concrete.] A mass formed by coagulation. CONCUBINAGE. n. s. [concubinage, Fr. concubinatus, Lat.] The act of living with a woman not married. Adultery was punished with death by the ancient heathens: concubinage was permitted. Broome. CONCUBINE. n. s. [concubina, Lat.] A woman kept in fornication; a whore; a strumpet. I know I am too mean to be your queen, And yet too good to be your concubine. Shaksp. When his great friend was suitor to him to pardon an offender, he denied him: afterwards, when a concubine of his made the same suit, he granted it to her; and said, Such suits were to be granted to whores. Bacon. He caused him to paint one of his concubines, Campaspe, who had the greatest share in his affection. Dryden. The wife, though a bright goddess, thus gives place To mortal concubines offresh embrace. Granville. To CONCULCATE. v. a. [conculco, Latm.] To tread, or trample, under foot. Dict. Nor can they say, that the difference of climate inclines one nation to concupiscence and sensual pleasures, another to blood-thirstiness: it would discover great ignorance not to know, that i people has been overrun with recently invented Bentley's Sermon. CONCUPISCENT. adj. [concupiscens, Lat.] Libidinous; lecherous. vice. He would not, but by gift of my chaste body To his concupiscent intemperate lust, Release my brother! Shakspear. CONCUPISCENTIAL. adj. [from concupi scent.] Relating to concupiscence. Diet. CONCUPI'SCIBLE. adj. [concupiscibilis, Lat.] Impressing desire; eager; desirous; inclining to the pursuit or attainment of any thing. The schools reduce all the passions to these two heads, the concupiscible and irascible appetite. South's Sermon. To CONCUR. v. n. [concurro, Lat.] 1. To meet in one point. 2. must concur. Though reason favour them, yet sense can hardly allow them; and, to satisfy, both these Temple. To agree; to join in one action, or opinion. Acts which shall be done by the greater part of my executors, shall be as valid and effectual as if all my executors had concurred in the same. 3. It has with before the person with Swift's Last Will. whom one agrees. 4. 5. 6. It is not evil simply to concur with the hea thens, either in opinion or action; and that conformity with them is only then a disgrace, when we follow them in that they do amiss, or gene rally in that they do without reason. Hooker. It has to before the effect to which one contributes. Their affections were known to concur to the most desperate counsels. Clarendon Extremes in nature equal good produce, Extremes in man concur to general use. Pepe. To be united with; to be conjoined. To have an orthodox belief, and a true profession, concurring with a bad life, is only to deny Christ with a greater solemnity. Seath. Testimony is the argument; and, if fair pro babilities of reason concur with it, this argument To contribute to one common event hath all the strength it can have. Tillation, with joint power. Collier When outward causes concur, the idle are soonest seized by this infection. CONCURRENCE. CONCURRENCY. n. s. [from concur.] 1. Union; association; conjunction. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurrence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke 2. Agreement; act of joining in any design, or measures. |