CO'NGENER. n. s. [Latin.] A thing of the same kind or nature.

The cherry-tree has been often grafted on the laurel, to which it is a congener. Miller. CONGE NEROUS. adj. [congener, Latin.] Of the same kind; arising from the same original.

ture.

Those bodies, being of a congenerous nature, do readily receive the impressions of their naBrown's Vulgar Errours. From extreme and lasting colds proceeds a great run of apoplexies, and other congenerous diseases. Arbuthnot on Air. CONGE'NEROUSNESS. n. J. from congenerous ] The quality of being from the same original; belonging to the same class. Dict.

CONGENIAL. adj. [con and genius, Lat.] Partaking of the same genius; kindred; cognate in Swift it is followed by with.

He sprung, without any help, by a kind of congenial composure, as we may term it, to the likeness of our late sovereign and master.

Wotton.

You look with pleasure on those things which are somewhat congenial, and of a remote kindred to your own conceptions.

Dryden.

Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame.

Pope He acquires a courage, and stiffness of opinion, not at all congenial with him. Swift. CONGENIALITY. n. s. [from congenial.] Participation of the same genius; cognation of mind, or nature. CONGENIALNESS. n. s. [from congenial.] Cognation.

CONGENITE. adj. [congenitus, Latin.] Of the same birth; born with another; connate; begotten together.

Many conclusions of moral and intellectual truths seem, upon this account, to be congenite with us, connatural to us, and engraven in the very frame of the soul.

Hale.

Did we learn an alphabet in our embryo-state? And how comes it to pass, that we are not aware of any such congenite apprehensions?

"Glanville's Stepsis. CO'NGER.n.s. [congrus, Lat.] The sea eel. Many fish, whose shape and nature are much like the eel, frequent both the sea and fresh rivers; as the mighty conger, taken often in the Severn. Walton's Angler. CONGERIES. n. s. [Latin.] A mass of small bodies heaped up together.

The air is nothing but a congeries or heap of small, and for the most part of flexible, particles, of several sizes, and of all kinds of figures.

Dict.

Boyle 7. CONGE'ST. v. a. [congero, congestum, Lat.] To heap up; to gather together. CONGESTIBLE. adj. [from congest.] That may be heaped up. CONGESTION. n. s. [congestio, Latin.] A collection of matter, as in abscesses and tumours. Quincy. Congestion is then said to be the cause of a tumour, when the growth of it is slow, and without pain. Wiseman. CO'NGIARY. n. s. [congiarium, from congius, a measure of corn, Lat.] A gift distributed to the Roman people or sol

To

diery, originally in corn, afterward in money.

We see on them the emperor and general officers, standing as they distributed a congiary to the soldiers or people. Addison,

CONGLA'CIATE. v. n. [conglacia tus, Lat.] To turn to ice.

No other doth properly conglaciate but water: for the determination of quicksilver is properly fixation, and that of milk coagulation. Brew. CONGLACIATION. n. s. [from congla ciate.] The state of being changed, or act of changing, into ice.

If crystal be a stone, it is concreted by a mi neral spirit, and lapiditical principles; for, while it remained in a fluid body, it was a subject Brown. very unfit for proper conglaciation.

To CONGLOBATE. v. a. [conglobat, Lat.] To gather into a hard firm ball.

The testicle, as is said, is one large conglobated gland, consisting of soft fibres, all in one convo lution. Grea CONGLOBATE. adj. [from the verb.] Moulded into a firm ball, of which the fibres are not distinctly visible. Fluids are separated from the blood in the liver, and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands. Cheyne's Phil. Pri. CO'NGLOBATELY.adv. [from conglobate.] In a spherical form. CONGLOBA'TION. n. s. [from conglobate.) A round body; collection into a round

mass.

Dict

Brest

In this spawn are discerned many specks, or little conglobations, which in time become black. To CONGLO'BE. v. a, [conglobo, Latin] To gather into a round mass; to consolidate in a ball.

Then he founded, then conglob'd Like things to like. Milton's Paradise Lett. For all, their centre found, Hung to the goddess, and coher'd around: Not closer, orb in orb conglet'd, are seen The buzzing bees about their dusky queen. Pip To CONGLOBE. v. n. To coalesce into a round mass.

Thither they Hasted with glad precipitance, up-roll'd As drops on dust conglobing from the dry. Mil. To CONGLOʻMERATE. v. a. [con glomero, Lat.] To gather into a ball, like a ball of thread; to inweave into

a round mass.

The liver is one great conglomerated gland, composed of innumerable small glands, each of which consisteth of soft fibres, in a distinct or separate convolution. Grew's Cormologie

CONGLOMERATE. adj. [from the verb 1. Gathered into a round ball, so as that the constituent parts and fibres are distinct.

Fluids are separated in the liver, and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands. Collected; twisted together. The beams of light, when they are and conglomerate, generate heat. CONGLOMERATION ̧ n. 3. [from glomerate.]

multiplied Becen

1. Collection of matter into a loose ball. 2. Intertexture; mixture.

The multiplication and conglomeration of sounds doth generate rarefaction of the air,

Baven

7. CONGLUTINATE. . a. [conglu tino, Latin.] To cement; to reunite ; to heal wounds.

To CONGLUTINATE. v. n. To coalesce; to unite by the intervention of a callus. CONGLUTINATION. n. s. [from conglutinate.] The act of uniting wounded bodies; reunion; healing.

The cause is a temperate conglutination; for both bodies are clammy and viscous, and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts. Bacon. To this elongation of the fibres is owing the union or conglutination of parts separated by a wound. Arbuthnot on Aliments.

CONGLU'TINATIVE. adj. [from conglutinate.] Having the power of uniting

wounds. CONGLUTINA'TOR. n. s. [from conglutinate.] That which has the power of uniting wounds.

The osteocolla is recommended as a conglutinator of broken bones. Woodward on Fossils. CONGRATULANT. adj. [from congratu late.] Rejoicing in participation; expressing participation of another's joy. Forth rush'dinhaste the great consulting peers, Rais'd from the dark divan, and with like joy Congratulant approach'd him.

Milton, To CONGRATULATE. v. a. [gratulor, Latin.]

1. To compliment upon any happy event; to express joy for the good of another. I congratulate our English tongue, that it has been enriched with words from all our neigh bours. Watts' Logick. 2. It has sometimes the accusative case of the cause of joy, and to before the person.'

An ecclesiastical union within yourselves, I am rather ready to congratulate to you. Spratt. The subjects of England may congratulate to themselves, that the nature of our government, and the clemency of our king, secure us. Dryd. To CONGRATULATE. v. n. To rejoice in participation.

I cannot but congratulate with my country, which hath outdone all Europe in advancing Conversation. Swift. n. s. [from congraCONGRATULATION.

tulate.]

1. The act of professing joy for the happiness or success of another.

2. The form in which joy for the happiness of another is professed. CONGRATULATORY. adj. [from congratulate.] Expressing joy for the good fortune of another.

To CONGRE E. v. n. [from gre, French.] To agree; to accord; to join; to unite. Not in use.

Shaks.

For government, Put into parts, doth keep in one concent, Congreeing in a full and natural close. To CONGREʼET. v. n. [from con and greet.] To salute reciprocally. Not in

use.

My office hath so far prevail'd, That face to face, and royal eye to eye, You have congreeted. Shakspeare's Henry v. To CONGREGATE. v. a. [congrego, Lat.] To collect together; to assemble; to bring into one place.

Any multitude of christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker, These waters were afterwards congregated, and called the sea. Raleigh. Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,

The gutter'd rocks, and congregated sands,
As having sense of beauty, do omit
Their mortal natures.

Shakspeare's Othello.
The dry land, earth; and the great receptacle
Of congregated waters, he call'd sea:
And saw that it was good.

fire.

Milton.

Heat congregates homogeneal bodies, and se parates heterogeneal ones. Newton's Opticks. Light, congregated by a burning glass, acts most upon sulphureous bodies, to turn them into Newton's Opticks. To Co'NGREGATE. v. n. To assemble; to meet; to gather together. He rails, Ev'n there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains. Shakspeare. "T is true (as the old proverb doth relate), Equals with equals often congregate. Denham. CO'NGREGATE. adj. [from the verb.] Collected; compact.

Where the matter is most congregate, the cold is the greater. Bacon's Natural History. CONGREGATION. n. s. [from congregate ] 1. The act of collecting.

The means of reduction by the fire, is but by congregation of homogeneal parts.

Bacon.

2. A collection; a mass of various parts brought together.

3.

This brave o'erhanging firmament appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of Shakspeare. vapours. An assembly met to worship God in publick, and hear doctrine.

The words which the minister first pronounceth, the whole congregation shall repeat after him. Hooker.

The practice of those that prefer houses before churches, and a conventicle before the congregation. South.

1

If those preachers who abound in epiphonemas, would look about them, they would find part of their congregation out of countenance, and the other asleep. Swift. CONGREGATIONAL. adj. [from congregation.] Publick; pertaining to a congregation or assembly. It is a word used of such christians as hold every congregation to be a separate and independent church.

CONGRESS. n. s. [congressus, Latin.] 1. A meeting; a shock; a conflict.

Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there; Their congress in the field great Jove withstands, Both doom'd to fall, but fall by greater hands. Dryden's Eneid. From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. 2. An appointed meeting for settlement of affairs between different nations: as, the congress of Cambray. CONGRESSIVE. adj. [from congress.] Meeting; encountering; coming together.

If it be understood of sexes conjoined, all plants are female; and if of disjoined and congressive generation, there is no male or female in them. Brown's Vulg. Errours. T. CONGRU'E. v. n. [from congruo,

Lat.] To agree; to be consistent with to suit; to be agreeable. Not in use. Our sovereign process imports at full, By letters congruing to that effect, The present death of Hamlet. Shakspeare CONGRUENCE. n. s. congruentia, Latin.] Agreement; suitableness of one thing to another; consistency.

CONGRUENT. adj. [congruens, Latin.] Agreeing; correspondent.

These planes were so separated as to move upon a common side of the congruent squares, as an axis. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. CONGRUITY. n. s. [from congrue.] 1. Suitableness; agreeableness.

Congruity of opinions to our natural constitution, is one great incentive to their reception. Glanville.

2. Fitness; pertinence.

A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. Sidney. 3. Consequence of argument; reason; Consistency.

With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny, that her enemies do not at all appertain to the church of Christ? Hooker. 4. [In geometry.] Figures or lines which exactly correspond, when laid over one another, are in congruity. CON'GRUMENT. n. s. [from congrue.] Fitness; adaptation. Not in use.

The congrument and harmonious fitting of periods in a sentence, hath almost the fastening and force of knitting and connexion. Ben Jonson, CONGRUOUS. adj. [congruus, Lat.] 1. Agreeable to; consistent with.

The existence of God is so many ways manifest, and the obedience we owe him so congruous to the light of reason, that a great part of mankind give testimony to the law of nature. Locke. 2. Suitable to; accommodated to; proportionate or commensurate.

The faculty is infinite, the object infinite, and they infinitely congruous to one another. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles.

3. Rational; fit.

Motives that address themselves to our reason, are fittest to be employed upon reasonable creatures: it is no ways congruous, that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. Atterbury. CONGRUOUSLY adv. [from congruous.] Suitably; pertinently; consistently.

This conjecture is to be regarded, because, congruously unto it, one having warmed the bladder, found it then lighter than the opposite weight. Boyle's Spring of the Air. CO'NICAL. adj. [conicus, Lat.] Having CO'NICK. S the form of a cone, or round decreasing.

Tow'ring firs in conick forms arise,

And with a pointed spear divide the skies. Prior. A brown fiint of a conick figure: the basis is oblong. Woodward. They are conical vessels, with their bases sowards the heart; and, as they pass on, their diameters grow still less. Arbuthnot. CO'NICALLY, adv. [from conical.] In form of a cone.

In a watering pot, shaped conically, or like a sugar-loaf, filled with water, no liquor falls through the holes at the bottom, whilst the gardener keeps his thumb upon the orifice at the top. Boyle's Spring of the Air.

CONJE'CT. v. n. [conjectum, Latin-] To guess; to conjecture. Not in use. I intreat you then,

From one that but imperfectly conjects,
Your wisdom would not build yourself a trouble.
Shakert.

CONJE'CTOR. n. s. [from conject.Ĵ A guesser; a conjecturer.

Swift.

For so conjectors would obtrude, And from thy painted skin conclude. CONJECTURABLE.adj. [from conjecture. Being the object of conjecture; possible to be guessed.

CONJECTURAL. adj. [from conjecture.) Depending on conjecture; said or done by guess.

They'll sit by th' fire, and presume to know Who thrives and who declines, side factions, and give out

Conjectural marriages. Shakspeare's Coriolanus Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour, And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me. Shakspeart

It were a matter of great profit, save that doubt it is too conjectural to venture upon, one could discern what corn, herbs, or fruits, are likely to be in plenty or scarcity.

Bec

The two last words are not in Callimachus, and consequently the rest are only conjectural.

Breem

CONJECTURALITY. n. s. [from conjec tural.] That which depends upon guess.

They have not recurred unto chronology, cr the records of time, but taken themselves unte probabilities, and the conjecturality of philosophy. Brown's Vulgar Errani. CONJECTURALLY. adv. [from cenje tural.] By guess; by conjecture.

Whatsoever may be at any time, out of Scrip ture, but probably and conjecturally surmised.

Hanker

Let it be probably, not conjecturally, proved

CONJECTURE. n. s. [conjectura, Lat.) 1. Guess; imperfect knowledge; prepon deration of opinion without proof.

2.

In the casting of lots, a man cannot, upon any ground of reason, bring the event so as under conjecture.

Idea; notion; conception.

use.

Scath

Not in

tions.

Addison.

I shall leave conjecturers to their own imaginaCONIFEROUS. adj. [conus and fero, Lat.] Such trees or herbs are coniferous as bear a squamose scaly fruit, of a woody substance, and a figure approaching to a cone, in which are many seeds; and when they are ripe, the several cells in the cone open, and the seeds drop out. Of this kind are the fir, pine, and beech. Quincy. To CONJO'BBLE. v. a. [from con, together, and jobbernowl, the head.] To concert; to settle; to discuss. A low cant word. What would a body think of a minister that should conjobble matters of state with tumblers, and confer politicks with tinkers? L'Estrange. To CONJOIN. v. a. [conjoindre, Fr. conjungo, Latin.]

1. To unite; to consolidate into one.

.2.

Thou wrong'st Pirithous: and not him alone; But, while I live, two friends conjoin'd in one.

To unite in marriage.

Dryden.

If either of you know any inward impediment, why you should not be conjoin'd, I charge you on your souls to utter it. Shakspeare.

3. To associate; to connect.

Common and universal spirits convey the action of the remedy into the part, and conjoin the virtue of bodies far disjoined. Brown.

Men of differing interests can be reconciled in one communion; at least, the designs of all can be conjoined in ligatures of the same reverence, and piety, and devotion.

Taylor.

Locke.

Let that which he learns next be nearly conjained with what he knows already. To CONJOIN. v. n. To league; to unite. This part of his

Conjoins with my disease, and helps to end me. Shakspeare. CONJOINT. adj. [conjoint, Fr.] United; connected; associate. CONJOINT Degrees. [In musick.] Two notes which immediately follow each other in the order of the scale: as, ut and re.

CONJOINTLY. adv. [from conjoint.] In union; together; in association; jointly; not apart.

A gross and frequent error, commonly committed in the use of doubtful remedies, conjointly with those that are of approved virtues. Brown.

The parts of the body, separately, make known the passions of the soul, or else conjointly one with the other. Dryden.

CO'NISOR. See COGNISOUR. CONJUGAL. adj. [conjugalis, Lat.] Ma'trimonial; belonging to marriage; connubial.

Their conjugal affection still is tied,
And still the mournful race is multiplied. Dryd.

I could not forbear commending the young woman for her conjugal affection, when I found that she had left the good man at home. Spect. He mark'd the conjugal dispute; Nell roar'd incessant, Dick sat mute. *Savift. CONJUGALLY. adv. [from conjugal.] Matrimonially; connubially. To CONJUGATE. v. a. [conjugo, Lat.] 1. To join; to join in marriage; to unite.

Those drawing as well marriage as wardship, gave him both power and occasion to conjugate at pleasure the Norman and the Saxon houses. Wotton.

Chambers.

metry.] A right line bisecting the transverse diameter. CONJUGATION. n. s. [conjugatio, Lat.] 1. A couple; a pair.

The heart is so far from affording nerves unto other parts, that it receiveth very few itself from the sixth conjugation or pair of nerves. Brozen. 2. The act of uniting or compiling things together.

The general and indefinite contemplations and notions of the elements, and their conjugations, are to be set aside, being but notional; and illimited and definite axioms are to be drawn out of measured instances.

Bacon.

All the various mixtures and conjugations of Bentley. atoms do beget nothing. 3. The form of inflecting verbs through their series of terminations.

Have those who have writ so much about declensions and conjugations, about concords and syntaxes, lost their labour, and been learned to no purpose?

4. Union; assemblage.

Locke.

The supper of the Lord is the most sacred, mysterious, and useful conjugation of secret and holy things and duties. Taylor. CONJUNCT. adj. [conjunctus, Latin] Conjoined; concurrent; united. Not in use.

It pleas'd the king his master to strike at mel;
When he, conjunct, and flatt'ring his displeasure,
Tript me behind.
Shaks. King Lear.

CONJUNCTION. n. s. [conjunctio, Lat,]
Union; association; league.

1.

With our small conjunction we should on, To see how fortune is dispos'd to us. Shaksp. He will unite the white rose and the red; Smile heaven upon his fair conjunction, That long hath frown'd upon their enmity! Shak. The treaty gave abroad a reputation of a strict Bacon. conjunction and amity between them.

Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength, but as he acts in society and conjunction with others.

South.

An invisible hand from heaven mingles hearts and souls by strange, secret, and unaccountable South. conjunctions.

2. The congress of two planets in the

same degree of the zodiack, where they are supposed to have great power and influence.

God, neither by drawing waters from the deep, nor by any conjunction of the stars, should bury them under a second flood. Raleigh.

Has not a poet more virtues and vices within his circle? Cannot he observe their influences in their oppositions and conjunctions, in their altitudes and depressions? He shall sooner find ink than nature exhausted. Rymer.

Pompey and Caesar were two stars of such a magnitude, that their conjunction was as fatal as their opposition. Swift

Brown.

or causes.

I never met with a more unhappy conjuncture of affairs than in the business of that earl. King Ch. Every virtue requires time and place, a proper object, and a fit conjuncture of circumstances. Addison's Spectator.

2. Occasion; critical time.

Such censures always attend such conjunctures; and find fault for what is not done, as with that which is done. Clarendon.

3. Mode of union; connexion.

He is quick to perceive the motions of articulation, and conjunctures of letters in words. Holder's Elements of Speech.

4. Consistency.

I was willing to grant to presbytery what with reason it can pretend to, in a conjuncture with episcopacy. King Charles. CONJURATION. n. s. [from conjure.] J. The form or act of summoning another in some sacred name.

We charge you, in the name of God, take heed: Under this conjuration speak, my lord. Shaksp. 2. A magical form of words; an incantàtion; an enchantment.

Your conjuration, fair knight, is too strong for my poor spirit to disobey.

Sidney.

What drugs, what charms, What conjuration, and what mighty magick, For such proceeding I am charg'd withal, I won his daughter with? Shakspeare's Othello. 3. A plot; a conspiracy. Dict. To CONJU'RE. v. a. [conjuro, Latin.] 1. To summon in a sacred name; to enjoin with the highest solemnity.

He concluded with sighs and tears to conjure them, that they would no more press him to consent to a thing so contrary to his reason. Clarend. The church may address her sons in the form St. Paul does the Philippians, when he conjures them to unity. Decay of Piety. I conjure you! Let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. Addison's Cato. 7. To bind many by an oath to some common design. This sense is rare. He in proud rebellious arms, Drew after him the third part of heav'n's

sons,

Conjur'd against the Highest. Milton's Par.Lost. 3. To influence by magick; to affect by enchantment; to charm.

Like wonder-wounded hearers? Shakspeare.

I thought their own fears, whose black arts first raised up those turbulent spirits, would force them to conjure them down again. King Charles.

You have conjured up persons that exist no where else but on old coins, and have made our 4. It is to be observed, that when this passions and virtues visible. Addison. word is used for summon, or conspire, its accent is on the last syllable, conjure; when for charm, on the first, conjure. CONJURE. v. n. To practise charms

To

or enchantments; to enchant.

My invocation is honest and fair; and in his mistress's name I conjure only but to raise up him. Shakspeare's Romeo and Julie, Out of my door, you witch! you hag, you baggage, you poulcat, you runaway! Out, out, out! I'll conjure you, I'll fortunetell you!

CONJURER. n. s. [from conjure.]
1. An enchanter; one that uses charms.
Good doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer;
Establish him in his true sense again. Shakip.
Figures in the book

Shakspeare's Merry Wives of Winder.

Of some dread conjurer, that would enforce na

ture.

Donne Thus has he done you British consorts right; Whose husbands, should they pry like mine to night,

Would never find you in your conduct slipping, Tho' they turn'd conjurers to take you tripping, Addison,

2. An impostor who pretends to secret arts; a cunning man.

3.

From the account the loser brings,

The conj'rer knows who stole the things. Prier. By way of irony, a man of shrewd conjecture; a man of sagacity.

Though ants are very knowing, I don't take them to be conjurers; and therefore they could not guess that I had put some corn in that room. Addison.

CONJU'REMENT. n. s. [from conjure.]
Serious injunction; solemn demand.
I should not be induced but by your earnest
intreaties and serious conjurements.
Milten
CONNA'SCENCE. n. s. [con and mastor,
Latin.]

1. Common birth; production at the same time; community of birth.

2. Being produced together with another being.

3.

Christians have baptized these geminous births and double connascencies, as containing in them a distinction of soul. Brown's Vulg. Err. The act of uniting or growing together: improperly.

Symphasis denotes a connascence, or growing together, Wiseman.

CONN A'TE. adj. [from con and natus, Lat.] Born with another; of the same birth. Many, who deny all connate notions in the speculative intellect, do yet admit them in this. South

Their dispositions to be reflected, some at a greater and others at a less thickness, of thin plates or bubbles, are connate with the rays, and immutable. Newton's Optiks.