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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Con-fīn'er, n. p. 272One who, or that which, limits or restrains.Cŏn'fin-er or Con-fīn'er, n. p. 272One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor. Happy confines you of other lands That shift your soil and oft 'scape tyrants' hands. Daniel.Con-fĭn'i-ty, n. p. 272Community of limits; contiguity; nearness; neighborhood. [Rare.] Bailey.Con-firm', v. t. p. 272To make firm; to give strength to; to render fixed; to establish; to settle; to render certain; as, to confirm one's spirits with a banquet. Chapman. He only lived but till he was a man; The which no…Con-firm'a-ble, a. p. 272Capable of being confirmed, established, ratified, or made more certain. Browne.Con-firm'ance, n. p. 272Confirmation. [Obs.] Chapman.Cŏn'fir-mā'tion, n. p. 272The act of confirming or giving strength; the act of establishing, settling, or rendering fixed; establishment; proof. “The confirmation of a grant.” Melmoth. 2. That which confirms; that which gives…Con-fĩrm'a-tĭve, a. p. 272Having the power of confirming; tending to establish. [Rare.] Sherwood.Con-fĩrm'a-tĭve-ly, adv. p. 272In a manner to confirm.Cŏn'fir-mā'tor, n. p. 272One who, or that which, confirms. Browne.Con-fĩrm'a-to-ry, a. p. 272Serving to confirm; giving additional strength, force, stability, or assurance; corroborative. “A fact confirmatory of the conclusion.” I. Taylor. 2. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation. Compton.Con-fĩrm'ed-ly, adv. p. 272In a way to confirm; with confirmation.Con-fĩrm'ed-ness, n. p. 272A fixed state.Cŏn'fir-mee', n. p. 272(Law.) One to whom any thing is confirmed. Ash.Con-fĩrm'er, n. p. 272One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who produces new evidence; an attester. Shak.Con-firm'ing-ly, adv. p. 272In a manner to strengthen or make firm. B. Jonson.Con-fis'ca-ble, a. p. 272Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture. Broome.Cŏn’fis-cāte or Cŏn-fis’cāte, v. t. p. 272To appropriate, as a penalty, to the public use. [See Note under CONTEMPLATE.] It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized. Bacon.Cŏn'/fis-cāte or Cŏn-fis'/cāte, a. p. 272Appropriated, as a penalty, to the public use. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.Cŏn'fis-cā'tion, n. p. 272The act of appropriating, as a penalty, to the public use. The suppression of monasteries poured, in an instant, such a torrent of wealth upon the crown as has seldom been equaled in any country by…Cŏn′fis-eā′tor, n. p. 272One who confiscates. Burke.Con-fis'ca-to-ry, a. p. 272Consigning to or promoting confiscation. “Confiscatory and exterminatory periods.” Burke.Con'fit, n. p. 272A sweetmeat. [Obs.] See COMFIT and CONFECT.Cōn'fi-tent, n. p. 272One who confesses his sins and faults. [Obs.]Cōn'fit-ūre, n. p. 272The act of making into confits. [Obs.] Holland. 2. A sweetmeat; confection; comfit. [Obs.] Bacon.Con-fix', v. t. p. 272To fix; to fasten. [Obs.] Shak.Con-fix'ūre, n. p. 272Act of fixing. [Obs.] Montague.Con-flā'grant, a. p. 272Burning together in a common flame. [R.] Then raise From the conflagrant mass, purged and refined, New heavens, new earth. Milton.Cŏn'fla-grā'tion, n. p. 272A fire on a great scale, or extending to many objects. Mankind hath had a gradual increase notwithstanding what floods and conflagrations . . . may have interrupted. Bentley.Con-flā'gra-tĭve, a. p. 272Causing conflagration. [Rare.]Con-flāte' or Con-flāt'ed, a. p. 272Brought together from various sources; heterogeneous. [Obs.]Con-flā'tion, n. p. 272A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in melting metals.Con-flĕx'ŭre, n. p. 272A bending. [Obs.] Bailey.Cŏn'flĭct, n. p. 272A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves. 2. A striving to oppose or overcome; contest; strife; combat; collision. As soon as he [Atterbury] was himself…Con-flict', v. i. p. 272To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide; as, conflicting waves. “Conflicting elements.” Shak. 2. To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife; as, conflicting…Con-flict'ĭve, a. p. 272Tending to conflict. Massinger.Con-flŭct'ū-āte, v. i. p. 272To flow together. [Obs.] Ash.Cŏn'flu-ençe, n. p. 272A flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting. New York stood at the confluence of two rivers. Bancroft. 2. The running together of people; the act of…Cŏn'flu-ent, a. p. 272Flowing together; meeting in a common current or basin; running one into another. These confluent streams make some great river’s head. Blackmore. 2. Affluent. [Rare.] Chapman. 3. (Bot.) United at…Cŏn'flu-ent, n. p. 272A small stream which flows into a large one. 2. The place of meeting or confluence of streams, &c. The confluent where both streams meet together. Holland.Cŏn'flux, n. p. 272A flowing together; a meeting of currents. Knots by the conflux of meeting sap Infect the sound pine. Shak. 2. A large assemblage; a crowd; a multitude. He quickly, by the general conflux and…Con-flûx'i-bil'i-ty, n. p. 272The tendency of fluids to run together. [Rare.] Boyle.Con-flāx'i-ble, a. p. 272Inclined to flow or run together.Con-flŭx'i-ble-ness, n. p. 272Confluxibility.Con-fôrm', a. p. 272Made to resemble; assuming the same form; like; resembling; similar. [Obs.] Bacon.Con-fōrm', v. t. p. 272To shape in accordance with; to make like; to reduce to a likeness or correspondence in character, form, manners, &c.; to bring into harmony or agreement with; — with to or unto. Demand of them…Con-fôrm', v. i. p. 272To conduct in accordance with; to comply with; to yield to; to obey; — with to, or sometimes with. A rule to which experience must conform. Whewell. 2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of…Con-fôrm'/a-bil'i-ty, n. p. 272The state of being conformable. 2. (Geol.) The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.Con-fôrm'a-ble, a. p. 272Corresponding in form, shape, character, opinions, &c.; similar; like;— usually followed by to. He [Galileo] could not be satisfied without maintaining his favorite opinion to be conformable to…Con-fôrm'a-ble-ness, n. p. 272Conformability.Con-fôrm'a-bly, adv. p. 272With, or in, conformity; suitably; agreeably. “Conformably to the law and nature of God.” Bp. Beveridge.Con-fôrm'ançe, n. p. 272Conformation. [Rare.] Marston.Con-fôrm'ate, a. p. 272Having the same form.Cŏn'/for-mā'tion, n. p. 273The act of conforming; the act of producing suitableness or conformity; the state of being conformed; agreement; harmony. The conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion and…Con-fôrm'er, n. p. 273One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.Con-fōrm'ist, n. p. 273One who conforms or complies; especially, one who complies with the worship of the church of England, or of the established church, as distinguished from a dissenter or non-conformist.Con-fōrm'i-ty, n. p. 273Correspondence in character or manner; resemblance; agreement; congruity with something else;— followed by to, with, or between. We can not be otherwise happy, but by our conformity to God.…Cŏn'/for-tā'/tion, n. p. 273The act of comforting or giving strength. [Obs.] Bacon.Con-found', v. t. p. 273To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished, especially so that one thing is mistaken for another; to confuse utterly; to mistake by error. They who strip not ideas from…Con-found'ed, p. a. p. 273Confused; perplexed. “A cloudy and confounded philosopher.” Cudworth. 2. Very great; enormous; abominable. [Colloq.] “He was a confounded tory.” Swift. “The tongue of that confounded woman.” W. Scott.