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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Con-chŷl'i-oŭs, a.p. 267Of the nature or species of shells.
  2. Cōn'ci-ā'tor, n.p. 267(Glass Works.) The person who weighs and proportions the salt on ashes and sand, and who works and tempers them.
  3. Con-cierger, n.p. 267One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a porter; a janitor.
  4. Con-cĭl'i-a-ble, n.p. 267A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. [Obs.] “Conventicles and conciliables of heretics and schismatics.” Bacon.
  5. Con-cil'i-a-ble, a.p. 267Capable of being conciliated or reconciled. [Obs.] Milton.
  6. Con-čil'i-a-bŭle, n.p. 267An obscure ecclesiastical council. Milman.
  7. Con-cil'i-ar or Con-cil'i-a-ry, a.p. 267Pertaining or relating to a council. [Obs.] “Free and conciliar debates.” Baker.
  8. Con-cĭl'i-āte, v. t.p. 267To win over; to gain from a state of indifference or hostility. The capacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the…
  9. Con-cĭl'i-ā'tion, n.p. 267The act of winning over or bringing to agreement; reconciliation. The house has gone further; it has declared conciliation admissible previous to any submission on the part of America. Burke.
  10. Con-cĭl'i-ā'tor, n.p. 267One who conciliates or reconciles.
  11. Con-cil'i-a-to-ry, a.p. 267Tending to conciliate; pacific. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.
  12. Con-cĭn'nāte, v. t.p. 267To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear. [Obs.] Holland.
  13. Con-çin'ni-ty, n.p. 267Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; — used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] “An exact concinnity and evenness of fancy.” Howell.
  14. Con-çin'noŭs, a.p. 267Characterized by concinnity; harmonious; fit; neat. [Rare.]
  15. Cōn'ci-o-nā-tive, a.p. 267Pertaining to preaching. [Rare.]
  16. Cŏn'ci-o-na-ry, a.p. 267Concionatory. [Obs.] Selden.
  17. Cōn'ci-o-nāte, v. i.p. 267To preach. [Obs.] Lithgow.
  18. Cŏn'ci-o-nā'tor, n.p. 267A preacher. [Obs.] Cockram.
  19. Cŏn'ci-o-na-to-ry, a.p. 267Pertaining to preaching or discourse to a public assembly. [Obs.] Howell.
  20. Con-cīse’, a.p. 267Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and comprehensive; — used of style in reading or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B.…
  21. Con-cīse'ly, adv.p. 267In few words; comprehensively; briefly.
  22. Con-cīse'ness, n.p. 267Brevity in speaking or writing. “The conciseness of Demosthenes.” Dryden.
  23. Con-cĭs'ion, n.p. 267A cutting off; hence, a division; a faction. Those of the concision who made it [the division] would do well to consider whether that which our Savior assures us will destroy a kingdom, be the…
  24. Cŏn'ci-tā'tion, n.p. 267The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating. “The concitation of humors.” Browne.
  25. Con-ci'te', v. t.p. 267To excite. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
  26. Con-cit'i-zen, n.p. 267A fellow-citizen. [Rare.] Knox.
  27. Exclā-mā'tion, n.p. 267An outcry or shout of many together. [Obs.] “Before his funeral conclamation.” Moy.
  28. cŏn'clāve, n.p. 267A private apartment, particularly the room in which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic church meet in privacy, for the election of a pope. 2. The assembly of the cardinals, shut up for the election…
  29. Cŏn'cla-vĭst, n.p. 267An attendant whom a cardinal is allowed to take with him into the conclave.
  30. Con-el'i-māte, v. t.p. 267To inure to a climate; to acclimate. [Rare.]
  31. Con-clūde',, v. t.p. 267To shut up; to inclose. [Obs.] The very person of Christ . . . was only touching bodily substance, concluded within the grave. Hooker. 2. To include; to comprehend. [Obs.] For God hath concluded them…
  32. Con-clūde', v. i.p. 267To come to a termination; to close; to end; to terminate. A train of lies, That, made in lust, conclude in perjuries. Dryden. 2. To form a final judgment; to decide. Then, grandam, you conclude that…
  33. Con-clū'den-cy, n.p. 267Deduction from premises; inference. [Obs.] Abatements that may take away a necessary and infallible concludency in these evidences of fact. Hale.
  34. Con-clüd'ent, a.p. 267Bringing to a close; decisive. [Obs.] Arguments highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. Hale.
  35. Con-clu'der, n.p. 267One who concludes. Montagu.
  36. Con-clu'ding-ly, adv.p. 267In a conclusive manner. [Rare.] Digby.
  37. Con-clu'si-ble, a.p. 267Capable of being concluded or inferred; determinable. [Obs.] Hammond.
  38. Con-clu'sion, n.p. 267The last part of any thing; close; termination. A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest. Prescott. 2. Final decision; determination. And the conclusion is, she shall be thine…
  39. Con-clū'sion-al, a.p. 267Concluding. [Obs.] Hooper.
  40. Con-clū'sive, a.p. 267Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; putting an end to debate or question; leading to a conclusion or decision. “Secret reasons . . . equally conclusive for us as they were for them.”…
  41. Con-clū'sive-ly, adv.p. 267In the way of conclusion; decisively. Burke.
  42. Con-clū’sive-ness, n.p. 267The quality of being conclusive or decisive; as, the conclusiveness of evidence, or of an argument. Hale.
  43. Con-clu'so-ry, a.p. 267Conclusive. [Rare.]
  44. Cŏn'co-ăg'ū-lāte, v. t.p. 267To curdle or congeal with or together. [Rare.] Boyle.
  45. Cŏn'co-ăg'ū-lā'tion, n.p. 267A coagulating together, as different substances or bodies, in one mass; crystallization of different salts in the same menstruum. [Rare.] Coxe.
  46. Con·cōct′, v. t.p. 267To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne. 2. To mature or perfect; to ripen. Bacon. 3. To form and prepare…
  47. Con-cōct'er, n.p. 267One who concocts.
  48. Con-cŏc'tion, n.p. 267A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. 2. The act of bringing to perfection or maturity. Bacon. 3. The act of devising or forming, as of a scheme; contrivance. Donne.
  49. Con-cŏct′ive, a.p. 267Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive. Hence the concoctive powers, with various art, Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle. Armstrong.
  50. Con·cōl'or, a.p. 267Of the same color. [Obs.] “Concolor animals, and such as are confined to one color.” Browne.
  51. Con-côm'i-tance or Con-côm'i-tan-cy, n.p. 267The state of accompanying; accompaniment. The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other. Broome.
  52. Con-cŏm'i-tant, a.p. 267Accompanying, or conjoined; concurrent; attending. It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure. Locke.
  53. Con-còm'i-tant, n.p. 267A person who, or thing that, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion. The other concomitant of ingratitude is hard-heartedness. South. Reproach is a concomitant to…
  54. Con-côm'i-tant-ly, adv.p. 267In company with others. Pearson.
  55. Con-còm'i-tāte, v. t.p. 267To accompany or attend; to be collaterally connected with. [Obs.] Harvey.
  56. Cŏn'côrd, n.p. 267A state of agreement; harmony; union. Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. Milton. 2. Agreement by stipulation; compact; treaty. [Obs.] “The concord made between Henry and Roderick.” Davies. 3.…
  57. Cōn'cōrd, v. i.p. 268To agree. [Obs.] Clarendon.
  58. Con-cōrd'a-ble, a.p. 268Capable of according; agreeing; harmonious.
  59. Con-cōrd'a-bly, adv.p. 268With concord. Rogers.
  60. Con-cōrd'ance, n.p. 268Agreement; accordance. “Contrasts, and yet concordances.” Carlyle. 2. (Gram.) Concord. [Obs.] 3. A dictionary or index in which all the important words used in any work are arranged alphabetically…