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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Con-dūçe'ment, n. p. 270The act of conducing; tendency. [Obs.] Gregory.Con-dū'cent, a. p. 270Tending or contributing; conducive. [Obs.] Any other act fitting or conducent to the good success of this business. Laud.Con-dū'ci-bĭl'i-ty, n. p. 270The capability of being conduced, or turned. “Duties . . . deriving their obligation from their conducibility to the promoting of our chief end.” Wilkins.Con-dū'ci-ble, a. p. 270Leading or tending; having the power of conducting; having a tendency to promote or forward; conducive. Our Savior hath enjoined us a reasonable service; all his laws are in themselves conducible to…Con-dū'ci-ble-ness, n. p. 270The quality of being conducible. More.Con-dū'ci-bly, adv. p. 270In a manner to promote. [Rare.]Con-dū'çive, a. p. 270Leading or tending; having a tendency to promote. An action, however conducive to the good of our country, will be represented as prejudicial to it. Addison.Con-dū'çive-ness, n. p. 270The quality of conducting, or tending to promote. Boyle.Cŏn'duct, n. p. 270The act or method of leading, guiding, managing, or commanding; guidance; management. Conduct of armies is a prince's work. Waller. 2. Skillful guidance; generalship. “Attacked the Spaniards . . .…Con-duct', v. t. p. 270To lead, or guide; to introduce; to escort; to attend. I can conduct you, lady, to a low But loyal cottage, where you may be safe. Milton. 2. To lead as a commander; to direct; to control. Little…Con-dûct', v. i. p. 270To behave; to act; to conduct one's self. ☞ This word is in common use in some parts of the United States, but in England is not considered to be authorized by good usage.Con-dŭc'tō, n. p. 270A train or convoy of valuable freight, as gold, &c.; — sometimes applied to a conveyance by sea as well as land. Velasquez.Con-dŭct/i-bĭl/i-ty, n. p. 270Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of the electric fluid.Con-dūct'i-ble, a. p. 270Capable of being conducted.Con-dŭc'tion, n. p. 270The act of training up. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 2. (Physics.) Transmission through, or by means of a conductor. The law of conduction in the simple cases of metallic bars heated at one end. Whewell.Cŏn·duc·ti'tiōus, a. p. 270Employed for wages; hired. [Obs.] Ayliffe.Con-dŭc'tive, a. p. 270Having the quality or power of conducting; as, conductive bodies. Whewell.Cŏn'duc-tiv'i-ty, n. p. 270The quality or power of conducting or giving passage to some molecular action, as of heat, light, electricity. Whewell.Con-dŭc'tor, n. p. 270One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a guide; a manager; a director. “Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.” Dryden. 2. The person who has general charge of a railroad car or train, receiving…Con-dŭct'o-ry, a. p. 270Having the property of conducting.Con-dūct'ress, n. p. 270A female who leads or directs; a directress.Cŏn'duit, n. p. 270That which conducts or conveys; especially, a pipe, canal, or the like, for the conveyance of water or any other liquid. “All the conduits of my blood froze up.” Shak. This is the fountain of all…Con-dū'pli-cate, a. p. 270(Bot.) Doubled or folded over or together, as the leaves of a bud. Martyn.Con-dū'pli-cāte, v. t. p. 270To double or fold together. [Obs.]Con-dū'pli-cā'tion, n. p. 270A doubling; a duplication; a folding together. [Rare.]Con-dûr'rite, n. p. 270(Min.) An ore of copper containing a considerable proportion of arsenic; arseniate of copper; — so called because found at the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England. Dana.Cŏn'dyle, n. p. 270(Anat.) A protuberance or process round in one direction and flat in the other, found especially in the ganglinoid or hinge-joints of the skeleton. Dunglison.Cŏn'dy-loid, a. p. 270Shaped like a condyle; — applied to several articular protuberances, and to parts in their vicinity.Cŏn'dy-lōpe or Con-dy'l'o-pōd, n. p. 270(Zool.) An articulate animal, as an insect with jointed feet. Dana.Cŏn'dy-lū'ră, n. p. 270(Zoöl.) A genus of insectivorous mammiferous animals of North America, resembling the mole.Cōne, n. p. 270A solid body generated by the revolution of a triangle about one of its sides, having a circle for its base, and its top terminated in a point or vertex. 2. (Bot.) The conical fruit of several…Cōne, v. t. p. 270To render cone-shaped; as, to cone the tires of railway-carriage wheels.Co-nē'ine, a. p. 270Same as CONINE, q. v.Cō'ne-pāte or Cō'ne-pātl, n. p. 270An American animal of the weasel kind; the Mephitis Americana; the skunk.Cōne'-pul'ley, n. p. 270Cō'ney, n. p. 270See CONY.Cōn'fāb, n. p. 270Familiar talk or conversation. [Colloq.]Con-făb'ū-lar, a. p. 270Pertaining to conversation; given to talking; conversational. [Rare.]Con-făb'ū-lāte, v. i. p. 270To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Cowper.Con-făb'ū-lā'tion, n. p. 270Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.Con-făb′ū-la-to-ry, a. p. 270Belonging to familiar talk. [Obs.] Weaver.Cōn'fa-lōn, n. p. 270(Eccl.) One of a sect or fraternity of seculars in the church of Rome, otherwise called Penitents.Cōn'fa-mil'iar, a. p. 270Very familiar. [Obs.] Glanville.Con-făr-re-ā'tion, n. p. 270(Antiq.) The solemnization of marriage among the Romans, by a ceremony in which the bridegroom and bride tasted a cake made of flour, with salt and water, in presence of the high priest and at least…Con-tāt'ed, a. p. 270Declared or decreed at the same time with something else. [Obs.] Search.Con-fĕct', v. t. p. 270To make up together; to mingle or mix. [Obs.] And yet those dainties of my joys Are still confected with some fears. Stirling. 2. To prepare, as sweetmeats. “Saffron confected in Cilicia.” Browne.Cōn'feet, n. p. 270A preparation of fruits, roots, and the like, with sugar; a sweetmeat; a confit. A pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects. Harvey.Con-fēc'tion, n. p. 270A composition of different materials; a mixture. [Obs.] “A confection of mold which perhaps will alter the seed.” Bacon. 2. A preparation of fruit, &c., with sugar; a confect. Hast thou not learned…Con-fēc'tion-a-ry, n. p. 270A confectioner. [Obs.] He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. I Sam. viii. 13.Con-fēc'tion-a-ry, a. p. 270Prepared as a confection. “The biscuit or confectionary plum.” Cowper.Con-fĕc'tion-er, n. p. 270One whose occupation is to make or to sell confections, candies, &c.Con-fēc'tion-ēr-y, n. p. 270Sweetmeats in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies. 2. A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.Con-fec'to-ry, a. p. 270Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats. Beaumont.Con-fĕd'er, v. i. p. 270To unite in a league; to confederate. [Obs.] “The soldiers having confedered together,” North. “Having confedered with O’Neal . . . and other Irish potentates.” Holinshed.Con-fĕd'er-a-cy, n. p. 270A league or covenant; a compact for mutual support or common action; union between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states; mutual engagement; federal compact. The friendships of the world are…Con-fĕd’er-ate, a. p. 271United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy. All the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made this peace. Shak.Con-fĕd'er-ate, n. p. 271One who is united with others in a league; a person or nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally. We still have fresh recruits in store, If our confederates can afford us more. Dryden.Con-fĕd’er-āte, v. t. p. 271To unite in a league; to ally. With these the Piercies them confederate. Daniel.Con-fĕd'er-āte, v. i. p. 271To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant. By words men come to know one another's minds; by these they covenant and confederate. South.Con-fĕd'er-ā'ter, n. p. 271A confederate.