2. It has to before the punishment. The son of man shall be betrayed unto the 3. To censure; to blame; to declare cri- Rogers. 4. 5. Joint right; equal claim. A bishop might have officers, if there was a concurrency of jurisdiction between him and the Ayliffe. archdeacon. CONCURRENT. adj. [from concur.] I join with these laws the personal presence of For, without the concurrent consent of all these three parts of the legislature, no such law is or Hale. can be made. This sole vital faculty is not sufficient to ex- Your beauty, and my impotence of mind; There is no difference between the concurrent It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which Bacon. may be from the concussion of the air. The strong concussion on the heaving tide Roll'd back the vessel to the island's side. Pope. 2. The state of being shaken. There want not instances of such an universal My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, -Yes, truly, is he, and condemn'd upon 't. Fiddes 5. Who then shall blame His pester'd senses to recoil and start, Shakspeare. The poet who flourish'd in the scene, is condemned in the ruelle. Dryden. He who was so unjust as to do his brother an injury, will scarce be so just as to condemn himLocke. self for it. They who approve my conduct in this particular, are much more numerous than those who Spectator. condemn it. To fine. And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred 2 Chronicles. talents of silver. To show guilt by contrast. The righteous that is dead shall condemn the He commands to deface the print of a cauldron There is therefore now no condemnation to Romans. them. CONDEMNATORY. adj. [from condemn.] Passing a sentence of condemnation, or of censure. He that passes the first condemnatory sentence, is like the incendiary in a popular tumult, who is chargeable with all those disorders to which he Government of the Tongue. CONDEMNER. n. s. [from condemn.] A blamer; a censurer; a censor. gave rise. Some few are the only refusers and condemners of this catholick practice. Taylor's Wortby Com. CONDE'NSABLE. adj. [from condensate.] Capable of condensation; that can be drawn or compressed into a narrower compass. I This agent meets with resistance in the moveable; and not being in the utmost extremity of density, but condensable yet further, every resistance works something upon the mover to Digby on the Soul. condense it. To CONDE'NSATE. v. a. [condenso, Lat.] To condense; to make thicker. Water by nature is white; yea, thickened or CONDENSA'TION. n. s. [from condensate.] The act of thickening any body, or making it more gross and weighty: opposite to rarefaction. If by natural arguments it may be proved, that water, by condensation, may become earth; the same reason teacheth, that earth, rarefied, may Raleigh. become water. By water-glasses the account was not regular; for, from attenuation and condensation, the hours were shorter in hot weather than in cold. Brown. The supply of its moisture is by rains and snow, and dews and condensation of vapours, and perhaps by subterraneous passages. Bentley. To CONDE'NSE. v. a. [condenso, Lat.] To make any body more thick, close, and weighty; to drive or attract the parts of any body nearer to each other; to inspissate, opposed to rarefy. Moving in so high a sphere, he must needs, as the sun, raise many envious exhalations; which, condensed by a popular odium, were capable to cloud the brightest merit. King Charles. Some lead their youth abroad, while some condense Their liquid store, and some in cells dispense. Dryden's Virgil. Such dense and solid strata arrest the vapour at the surface of the earth, and collect and condense it there. Woodward. To CONDE'NSE. v. n. To grow close and weighty; to withdraw its parts into a narrow compass. The water falling from the upper parts of the cave, does presently there condense into little Boyle. stones. All vapours, when they begin to condense and coalesce into small parcels, become first of that bigness whereby azure must be reflected, before they can constitute other colours. Newton. CONDE'NSE. adj. [from the verb.] Thick; dense; condensated; close; massy; weighty. They colour, shape, and size, Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare. Milton. They might be separated without consociating into the huge condense bodies of planets. Bentley. CONDENSER. n. s. [from condense.] A strong metalline vessel wherein to crowd the air, by means of a syringe fastened thereto. Quincy. CONDENSITY. n. s. [from condense.] The state of being condensed; condensation; denseness; density. CO'NDERS. h. s. [conduire, French.] Such as stand upon high places near the sea coast, at the time of herring fishing, to make signs to the fishers which way the shole passeth, which may better appear to such as stand upon some high cliff, by a kind of blue colour that the fish causeth in the water, than to those in the ships. These be likewise called huers; by likelihood of the French buyer, exclamare; and balkers. Corvell. v. n. [condescendre, To CONDESCEND. Fr. from condescendo, Latin.] 1. To depart from the privileges of superiority by a voluntary submission; to sink willingly to equal terms with inferiours; to sooth by familiarity. This method carries a very humble and condescending air, when he that instructs seems to be the inquirer. Watts. 2. To consent to do more than mere justice can require. Spain's mighty monarch, In gracious clemency does condescend, On these conditions, to become your friend. 3. To stoop; to bend; to yield; to submit; to become subject. Can they think me so broken, so debas'd, With corporal servitude, that my mind ever Will condescend to such absurd commands? Milt. Nor shall my resolution Disarm itself, nor condescend to parley With foolish hopes. Denham CONDESCENDENCE. n. s. [condescendance, Fr.] Voluntary submission to a state of equality with inferiours. CONDESCENDINGLY, adv. [from conde scending. By way of voluntary humi liation; by way of kind concession. We condescendingly made Luther's works um pires in the controversy. Atterbury. CONDESCENSION. n. s. [from condescend.} Voluntary humiliation; descent from superiority; voluntary submission to equality with inferiours. It forbids pride and ambition, and vain glory; and commands humility and modesty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. Courtesy and condescension is an happy quality, which never fails to make its way into the good opinion, and into the very heart; and allays the envy which always attends a high station. Atter. Raphael, amidst his tenderness, shews such a dignity and condescension in all his behaviour, as are suitable to superiour nature. Addisen. CONDESCE'NSIVE. adj. [from condescend.] Courteous; willing to treat with inferiours on equal terms; not haughty; not arrogant. CONDIGN. adj. [condignus, Latin.] Worthy of a person; suitable; deserved; merited: it is always used of some thing deserved by crimes. Unless it were a bloody nurtherer, I never gave them condign punishment. Shakt. Consider who is your friend; he that would have brought him to condign punishment, or he that has saved him. Arbutbeat. CONDIGNESS. n. 3. [from condign.] Suit Dict. CONDIGNLY. adv. [from condign.] Deableness; agreeableness to deserts. Dict. servedly; according to merit. CONDIMENT. n. s. [condimentum, Lat.] Seasoning; sauce; that which excites the appetite by a pungent taste. As for radish, and the like, they are for condi ments, and not for nourishment. Bacon. Many things are swallowed by animals rather for condiment, gust, or medicament, than any substantial nutriment. Brown. CONDISCIPLE. n. s. [condiscipulus, Lat.] A schoolfellow. A rage, whose heat hath this condition, That nothing can allay, nothing but blood. Shak. 2. Attribute; accident; property. The king is but a man: the violet smells, the element shews, to him as to me; all his senses Shakspeare. have but human conditions. It seemed to us a condition and property of Divine Powers and Beings, to be hidden and unseen to others. Bacon. They will be able to conserve their properties unchanged in passing through several mediums; which is another condition of the rays of light. Newton's Opticks. 3. Natural quality of the mind; temper; temperament; complexion. The child taketh most of his nature of the mother; besides speech, manners, and inclination, which are agreeable to the conditions of their mothers. Spenser on Ireland. The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash: now must we look, from his age, to receive not alone the imperfections of long engrafted condition, but the unruly waywardness that infirm and cholerick years bring with them. Shakspeare. 4. Moral quality; virtue or vice. Jupiter is hot and moist, temperate, modest, honest, adventurous, liberal, merciful, loving, and faithful; that is, giving these inclinations: and therefore those ancient kings, beautified with these conditions, might be called thereafter Jupiter. Raleigh's Hist. of the World. Socrates espoused Xantippe only for her extreme ill conditions above all of that sex. South. 5. State; external circumstances. To us all, That feel the bruises of the days before, Shakspeare. Estimate the greatness of this mercy, by the condition it finds the sinner in when God vouchSouth. safes it to them. Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not Wake. heard, if not answered. This is a principle adapted to every passion and faculty of our nature, to every state and Rogers. condition of our life. Some desponding people take the kingdom to be in no condition of encouraging so numerous a breed of beggars. Swift. Pope. Condition, circumstance, not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject as in king. Ben Jonson. He could not defend it above ten days; and must then submit to the worst conditions the rebels were like to grant to his person, and to his Clarendon, religion. Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance. Tayler. Those barb'rous pirates willingly receive Conditions, such as we are pleas'd to give. Waller. Make our conditions with yon captive king.— Secure me but my solitary cell; "I is all I ask him.. Dryden 8. The writing in which the terms of Go with me to a notary, seal me there Shakspeare. It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, CONDITIONAL. adj. [from condition.] For the use we have his express commandment, for the effect his conditional promise; so that, without obedience to the one, there is of Hoaker. the other no assurance. Many scriptures, though as to their formal terms they are absolute, yet as to their sense they are conditional. This strict necessity they simple call; South. Dryden.) 2. [In grammar and logick.] Expressing some condition or supposition. CONDITIONAL. n. s. [from the adjective.] A limitation. Not in use. He said, if he were sure that young man were king Edward's son, he would never bear arms against him. This case seems hard, both in respect of the conditional, and in respect of the other words. Bacon's Henry VII. CONDITIONALITY. n. s. [from conditional.] The quality of being conditional; limitation by certain terms. And as this clear proposal of the promises may inspirit our endeavours, so is the conditionality most efficacious to necessitate and engage them. Decay of Piety. CONDITIONALLY. adv. [from conditional.] With certain limitations; on particular terms; on certain stipula tions. I here entail The crown to thee, and to thine heirs for ever; Conditionally, that here thou take an oath To cease this civil war. Shakspeare. A false apprehension understands that positively, which was but conditionally expressed. Brown's Vulgar Errours. We see large preferments tendered to him, but conditionally, upon his doing wicked offices: conscience shall here, according to its office, South. interpose and protest. CONDITIONARY. adj. [from condition.] Stipulated. Would God in mercy dispense with it as a conditionary, yet we could not be happy without it as a natural, qualification for heaven. Norra. To CONDITIONATE. v. a. [from condi-, tion. To qualify; to regulate. That ivy ariseth but where it may be supported, we cannot ascribe the same upto any science therein, which suspends and conditionates its eruption. Brown's Vulgar Ertours. CONDITIONATE. adj. [from the verb.] Established on certain terms or conditions. That which is mistaken to be particular and absolute, duly understood, is general, but conditionate; and belongs to none who shall not perform the condition. Hammond. CONDITIONED. adj. [from condition.] Having qualities or properties good or bad. The dearest friend to me, the kindest man, The best condition'd. Shakspeare. To CONDO'LE. v. n. [condoleo, Lat.] To lament with those that are in misfortune; to express concern for the miseries of others. It has with before the person for whose misfortune we profess grief. It is opposed to congratulate. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole awith you. Temple. I congratulate with the beasts upon this honour done to their king; and must condole with us poor mortals, who are rendered incapable of paying our respects. Addison. To CONDO'LE. v. a. To bewail with another. I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance, As these perhaps; yet wish it had not been, Though for no friendly intent. Milton. Why should our poet petition Isis for her safe delivery, and afterwards condole her miscarriage? Dryden. CONDO'LEMENT. n. s. [from condole.] Grief; sorrow; mourning. To persevere In obstinate condolement, is a course Of impious stubbornness, unmanly grief. Shaks. CONDOLENCE. n. s. [condolance, Fr.] The expression of grief for the sorrows of another; the civilities and messages of friends upon any loss or misfortune. The reader will excuse this digression, due by way of condolence to my worthy brethren. Dict. Arbuthnot. CONDO'LER. n. s. [from condole.] One that joins in lamentation for the misfortunes of another. CONDONATION. n. s. [condonatio, Lat.] A pardoning; a forgiving. To CONDUCE. v. n. [conduco, Lat.] To promote an end; to contribute; to serve to some purpose: followed by to. The boring of holes in that kind of wood, and then laying it abroad, seemeth to conduce to make it shine. Bacon. The means and preparations that may conduce anto the enterprize. Bacon. Every man does love or hate things, according as he apprehends them to conduce to this end, or to contradict it. Tillotson. They may conduce to farther discoveries for completing the theory of light. Newton. To CONDUCE. v. a. To conduct; to accompany, in order to show the way. In this sense I have only found it in the following passage. He was sent to conduce hither the princess Wotton. Henrietta Maria. CONDUCIBLE. adj. [conducibilis, Latin.] Having the power of conducing; having a tendency to promote or forward: with to. 1 To both, the medium which is most propitious and conducible, is air. Bacon. Those motions of generations and corruptions, and of the conducibles thereunto, are wisely and admirably ordered and contemporated by the Hale. rector of all things. None of these magnetical experiments are sufficient for a perpetual motion, though those kind of qualities seem most conducible unto it. Wilkins' Mathematical Magick, Our Saviour hath enjoined us a reasonable service: all his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley. CONDUCIBLENESS. n.s. [from conducible.] The quality of contributing to any end. Diet. CONDUCIVE. adj. [from conduce.] That may contribute; having the power of forwarding or promoting: with to. An action, however conducive to the good of our country, will be represented as prejudicial to it. Addison's Freebalder. Those proportions of the good things of this life, which are most consistent with the interests of the soul, are also most conducive to our present felicity. Regers. CONDUCIVENESS. n. s. [from conducive.] The quality of conducing.. I mention some examples of the conduciveness of the smallness of a body's parts to its fluidity. Beyle. CONDUCT. n. s. [conduit, Fr. con and ductus, Lat.] 1. Management; economy. Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold, stir more than they can quiet, and fly to the end without consideration of the means. Bacon. How void of reason are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone? Dryden's Juvenal. 2. The act of leading troops; the duty of a general. 3. Conduct of armies is a prince's art. Waller. Tend'ring my person's safety, hath appointed 4. The act of convoying or guarding. Some three or four of you, Go, give him courteous conduct to this place. Shakspeart. 5. A warrant by which a convoy is appointed, or safety is assured. Exact behaviour; regular life. 6. Though all regard for reputation is not quite laid aside, it is so low, that very few think virtue and conduct of absolute necessity for preserv ing it. Swift. To CONDUCT. V. a. [conduire, French.] 1. To lead; to direct; to accompany, in order to show the way. I shall strait conduct you to a hill side, where I will point you out the right path. Milton. O may thy pow'r, propitious still to me, Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree, In this deep forest! Dryden's Eneid. 2. To usher; to attend in civility. Pray receive them nobly, and conduct them Into our presence. Shakspeare's Henry vill. Ascanius bids them be conducted in. Dryden. 3. To manage: as, to conduct an affair. 4. To head an army; to lead and order troops. CONDUCTITIOUS. adj. [conductitius, Lat.] Hired; employed for wages. The persons were neither titularies nor perpetual curates; but intirely conductitious, and removeable at pleasure. Ayliffe. CONDUCTOR. n. s. [from conduct.] 1. A leader; one who shows another the way by accompanying him. Shame of change, and fear of future ill; And zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryd. 2. A chief; a general. 39 Who is conductor of his people? As 't is said, the bastard son of Glo'ster. Shaks. A manager; a director. Addison. Quincy. If he did not intirely project the union and regency, none will deny him to have been the chief conductor in both. 4. An instrument to put up into the bladder, to direct the knife in cutting for the stone. CONDUCTRESS. n. s. [from conduct.] woman that directs; directress. CONDUIT. n. s. [conduit, French.] 1. A canal of pipes for the conveyance of waters; an aqueduct. A Water, in conduit pipes, can rise no higher Than the well head from whence it first doth spring. Davies This face of mine is hid "In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up. Shakspeare. God is the fountain of honour; and the conduit, by which he conveys it to the sons of men, are virtuous and generous practices. South. These organs are the nerves which are the conduits to convey them from without to their audience in the brain. Locke. Wise nature likewise, they suppose, Has drawn two conduits down our nose. Prior. 2. The pipe or cock at which water is drawn. I charge and command, that the conduit run nothing but claret wine. Shakspeare. CONDUPLICATION. n. s. [conduplicatio, Latin.] A doubling; a duplicate. CONE. n. s. [xwvG. Tỡ xiv fúcis nina içi, Aristotle.] A solid body, of which the 'base is a circle, and which ends in a point. CO'NEY. See CONY. To CONFA'BULATE. v. n. [confabule, Lat.] To talk easily or carelessly together; to chat; to prattle. CONFABULA'TION. n. s. [confabulatio, Latin.] Easy conversation; cheerful and careless talk. CONFA'BULATORY. adj. [from confabu late.] Belonging to talk or prattle. CONFARREA'TION. n. s. [confarreatio, Lat. from far, corn.] The solemnization of marriage by eating bread toge At supper eat a pippin roasted, and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects. Harvey. CONFECTION. n. s. [confectio, Latin.] 1. A preparation of fruit, or juice of fruit, with sugar; a sweetmeat. 2. Hast thou not learn'd me to preserve? yea so, That our great king himself doth woo me oft For my confections? Shakspeare's Cymbeline. They have in Turky and the East certain confections, which they call servets, which are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons. Bacon's Natural History. He saw him devour fish and flesh, swallow wines and spices, confections and fruits of numAddison. berless sweets and flavours. An assemblage of different ingredients; a composition; a mixture. Of best things then, what world shall yield confection To liken her? Shakspeare Bacon. There will be a new confection of mould, which perhaps will alter the seed. CONFECTIONARY.n.s. [from confection.} One whose trade is to make sweetmeats. Myself, Who had the world as my confectionary, of men At duty, more than I could frame employments. Shakspeare. CONFECTIONER. n. s. [from confection.] One whose trade is to make confections or sweetmeats. Nature's confectioner, the bee, Whose suckets are moist alchimy, The still of his refining mold Minting the garden into gold. Cleaveland. Confectioners make much use of whites of eggs. Boyle. CONFEDERACY. n. s. [confederation, Fr. fædus, Lat.] A league; a contract by which several persons or bodies of men engage to support each other; union; engagement; federal compact. What confederacy have you with the traitors? Shakspeare's King Lear. Judas sent them to Rome, to make a league of amity and confederacy with them. 1 Mace. Virgil has a whole confederacy against him, and I must endeavour to defend him. Dryden. The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure. Addison. An avaricious man in office is in confederacy with the whole clan of his district, or dependance; which, in modern terms of art, is called to live and let live. Swift. T CONFEDERATE. v. a. [confederer, French.] To join in a league; to unite; to ally. They were confederated with Charles's enemy. With these the Piercies them confederate, And as three heads conjoin in one intent. Daniel. To CONFEDERATE. V. n. To league; to unite in a league. By words men come to know one another's minds; by those they covenant and confederate. South. It is a confederating with him to whom the sacrifice is offered. Atterbury. |