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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-triv'ance, n. p. 287The act of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The…Con-trive', v. t. p. 287To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to plan. Our poet has always some beautiful design, which he first establishes, and then contrives the means which will naturally conduct…Con-trīve', v. i. p. 287To make devices; to plan; to scheme; to plot. Was it you that did so oft contrive to kill him? Shak.Con-trīve', v. t. p. 287To wear out or away; to spend. Three ages such as mortal men contrive. Spencer. In traveling countries, we three have contrived Full many a year. Edwards.Con-trive'ment, n. p. 287Contrivance; invention. [Obs.] His disgrace Shall be my zeal's contrivement. Cartwright, 1651.Con-triv'er, n. p. 287One who contrives, devises, or plans; a schemer. Swift.Cŏn-trŏl’, n. p. 287A book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. [Obs.] Johnson. 2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint. “Speak without…Con-trōl′, v. t. p. 287To check by a counter register or double account; to prove by counter statements. [Obs.] “This report was controlled to be false.” Fuller. 2. To exercise a restraining influence over; to check; to…Con-trōl'la-ble, a. p. 287Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; subject to command. Passion is the drunkenness of the mind, and, therefore, in its present workings, not always controllable by reason. South.Con-trōl'ler, n. p. 287An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to oversee, control, or verify the accounts of other officers. [More commonly written comptroller.] 2. One who controls or restrains…Con-trōl'ler-shĭp, n. p. 287The office of a controller.Con-trōl'ment, n. p. 287The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; resistance; counteraction. You may do it without controlment. Shak.Cŏn'/tro-vĕr'sa-ry, a. p. 287Disputatious; controversial. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Côn'tro-vêrse, n. p. 287Controversy. [Obs.] Spenser.Cŏn'tro-vĕrse, v. t. p. 287To engage in dispute; to controvert. [Obs.] “Controversed causes.” Hooker.Côn'tro-vêrs'er, n. p. 287A disputant. [Obs.]Cŏn'/tro-vĕr'sial, a. p. 287Relating to disputes; disputations; polemical. “Controversial divinity.” Bp. Bull. “Controversial discourses.” Locke.Cŏn'/tro-vĕr'sial-ist, n. p. 287One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.Cŏn'tro-vĕr'sial-ly, adv. p. 287In a controversial manner.Cŏn'-tro-vĕr'sion, n. p. 287Act of controverting; controversy. [Obs.] Hooker.Cŏn'tro-vēr'sor, n. p. 287One who engages in controversy; a controverser.Cŏn'tro-vĕr'sy, n. p. 287The expression or maintenance of feelings, opinion, or course of action contrary to, or discordant with, those of others; contention; dispute; debate; discussion. This left no room for controversy…Cŏn'tro-vĕrt, v. t. p. 287To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate; to deny. Some controverted points had been decided according to the…Cŏn’tro-vĕrt’er, n. p. 287One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.Cŏn/tro-vĕrt'i-ble, a. p. 287Capable of being controverted; disputable. “Many controvertible truths.” Browne.Côn'tro-vêrt'i-bly, adv. p. 287In a controvertible manner.Cŏn'tro-vĕrt'ist, n. p. 288One who controverts; a disputant; a man versed or engaged in controversy or disputation; a contestant. How unfriendly is the spirit of the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.Con-tru'sion, n. p. 288The act or process of pressing, thrusting, or squeezing together; pressure. [Rare.] The contrusion of the particles of water against one another. Boyle.Con-tū'ber-nal, a. p. 288Pertaining to fellowship in a mess or lodging; living together. [Obs.]Cōn’tu-mā’cioŭs, a. p. 288Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; unyielding. There is another mode of subduing the most obstinate, contumacious sinner. Hammond. 2. (Law.) Willfully…Cŏn'/tu-mā'/ciōŭs-ly, adv. p. 288In a contumacious manner; obstinately; stubbornly; perversely.Cōn'tu-mā'cioŭs-ness, n. p. 288The state of being contumacious; obstinacy; stubbornness. Wiseman.Cōn'tu-ma-cy, n. p. 288Persistent obstinacy; stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority. The bishop commanded him... to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy. Strype. 2. (Law.)…Cōn'-tu-mē'li-oŭs, a. p. 288Exhibiting contumely; overbearingly contemptuous; insolent; reproachful. “Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.” Shak. “Curving a contumelious lip.” Tennyson.Cŏn-tu-mē'li-oŭs-ly, adv. p. 288In a contumelious manner; reproachfully; rudely; insolently.Cōn′tu-mē′li-oŭs-ness, n. p. 288The state of being contumelious; insolence; reproach.Cōn'tu-me-ly, n. p. 288Rudeness or reproach compounded of haughtiness and contempt; haughty insolence; despiteful treatment; contemptuousness. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. Shak. Nothing aggravates…Con-tū'mu-lāte, v. t. p. 288To lay or bury in the same tomb or grave. [Obs.]Con-tū'mu-lā'tion, n. p. 288The act of laying in the same grave or tomb. [Obs.]Con-tūnd', v. t. p. 288To bruise by beating. [Obs.] Grafton.Con-tūse', v. t. p. 288To beat, pound, or bray together. “Roots, barks, and seeds contused together.” Bacon. 2. To bruise or injure by beating, as flesh, without making an open wound. Wiseman.Con-tū’sion, n. p. 288The act of beating and bruising. 2. The state of being bruised. 3. (Surg.) A bruise, hurt, or injury to the flesh by a blunt instrument, or by a fall, producing no breach or apparent wound.Co-nŭn′drum, n. p. 288A sort of riddle in which some odd resemblance is proposed for discovery between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.Cō'nus, n. p. 288(Bot.) A cone, as of a pine or fir-tree. 2. (Zool.) A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See CONE.Cōn'ū-sa-ble, a. p. 288Liable to be tried or judged; cognizable. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.Cōn'ū-sance, n. p. 288Cognizance; knowledge; notice.Cōn'ū-sant, a. p. 288Having or taking notice; knowing; cognizant.Cōn'va-lē'sce, v. t. p. 288To recover health and strength after sickness; to regain vigor after weakness. He [the king] found the queen somewhat convalesced. Knox.Cŏn'va-lĕs'çençe or Cŏn'va-lĕs'çen-çy, n. p. 288Renewal of health; the recovery of health and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness. Glover.Cŏn'va-lĕs'çent, a. p. 288Recovering health and strength after sickness or debility.Cŏn'va-lĕs'çent, n. p. 288One who is recovering from sickness.Cŏn'va-lĕs'çent-ly, adv. p. 288In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.Con-vĕc'tion, n. p. 288The act or process of conveying or transmitting. 2. (Physics.) A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of…Con-vĕc'tive, a. p. 288Caused or accomplished by convection, or the motion of particles, as in liquids, gases, &c.; as, a convective discharge of electricity. Faraday.Con-vĕc'tive-ly, adv. p. 288In a convective manner; by convection. Hare.Cŏn've-na-ble, a. p. 288Consistent with; accordant to; suitable. [Obs.] With his word his work is convenable. Spenser.Con-vēn'a-ble, a. p. 288Capable of being convened or assembled.Con-vēne', v. i. p. 288To come together; to meet; to unite. [Rare.] In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Newton. 2. To come together; to meet in the same…Con-vēne', v. t. p. 288To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke. And now the almighty father of the gods Convenes a council in the blest abodes. Pope. 2. To summon judicially to meet or appear. By the papal canon…Cŏn've-nee', n. p. 288One called or summoned with others. [Rare.]