Or sympathy, or some connatural force, Pow'rful at greatest distance to unite With secret amity. Milton's Paradise Lost. CONNATURA'LITY. n. s. [from connatural.] Participation of the same nature; natural union. There is a connaturality and congruity between that knowledge and those habits, and that future estate of the soul. Hale. CONNA'TURALLY. adv. [from connatural.] By the act of nature; originally. Some common notions seem connaturally engraven in the soul, antecedently to discussive ratiocination. Hale. CONNA'TURALNESS. n. s. [from connatu ral.] Participation of the same nature; natural union. Such is the connaturalness of our corruptions, except we looked for an account hereafter. Pearson on the Creed. To CONNECT. v. a. [connecto, Latin.] 1. To join; to link; to unite; to conjoin; to fasten together. The corpuscles that constitute the quicksilver will be so connected to one another, that, instead of a fluid body, they will appear in the form of a red powder. Boyle. 2. To unite by intervention, as a cement. The natural order of the connecting ideas must direct the syllogisms; and a man must see the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects, before he can use it in a syllogism. Locke. 3. To join in a just series of thought, or regular construction of language: as, the authour connects his reasons well. To CONNECT. v. n. To cohere; to have just relation to things precedent and subsequent. This is seldom used but in conversation. CONNECTIVELY. adv. [from connect.] In conjunction; in union; jointly; conjointly; conjunctly. The people's power is great and indisputable, whenever they can unite connectively, or by deputation, to exert it. Swift. ·To CONNE'X. v. a. [connexum, Lat.] To join or link together; to fasten to each other. Those birds who are taught some words or sentences, cannot connex their words or sentences in coherence with the matter which they signify. Hale's Origin of Mankind. They fly, By chains connex'd, and with destructive sweep Behead whole troops at once. Philips. CONNEXION. n. s. [from connex; or connexio, Lat.] 1. Union; junction; the act of fastening together; the state of being fastened together. My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, join'd in connexion sweet. Milton. There must be a future state, where the eter nal and inseparable connexion between virtue and happiness shall be manifested. Atterbury. 2. Just relation to something precedent or subsequent; consequence of argument. ation; coherence. Contemplation of human nature doth, by a necessary connexion and chain of causes, carry us up to the Deity. Hale. Each intermediate idea must be such as, in the whole chain, hath a visible connexion with those two it is placed between Locke. A conscious, wise, reflecting cause; That can deliberate, means elect, and find Their due connexion with the end design'd. Blackmore's Creation. CONNEXIVE. adj. [from connex.] Having the force of connexion; conjunctive. The predicate and subject are joined in a form Watts. of words by connexive particles. CONNICTATION. . s. [from connicto, Lat.] A winking. CONNI'VANCE. n. s. [from connive.] 1. The act of winking. Not in use. 2. Voluntary blindness; pretended ignorance; forbearance. Dict. It is better to mitigate usury by declaration, than to suffer it to rage by connivance. Bacon. Disobedience, having gained one degree of liberty, will demand another: every vice interprets a connivance an approbation. South. A connivance to admit half, will produce ruin. To CONNI'VE. v. n. [conniveo, Lat.] This artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, to connive with either eye. Spectator. 2. To pretend blindness or ignorance; to forbear; to pass uncensured. The licentiousness of inferiours, and the remissness of superiours; the one violates, and the other connives. Decay of Piety With whatever colours he persuades authority to connive at his own vices, he will desire its protection from the effects of other men's. Rogers. He thinks it a scandal to government to consive at such tracts as reject all revelation. Swift. CONNOISSEUR. n. s. [Fr.] A judge; a critick. It is often used of a pretended critick. Your lesson learnt, you'll be secure To get the name of connoisseur. Swift. To CONNOTATE. v. a. [con and nota, Latin.] To designate something besides itself; to imply; to infer. God's foreseeing doth not include or connotate predetermining, any more than I decree with my intellect. Hammond. CONNOTATION. n. s. [from connotate.] Implication of something besides itself; inference; illation. By reason of the co-existence of one thing with another, there ariseth a various relation or connotation between them. Hale's Orig. of Mankind. Plato by his ideas means only the divine essence with this connotation, as it is variously imitable or participable by created beings. Norris. To CONNOTE. v. a. [con and nota, Lat.] To imply; to betoken; to include. Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South. CONNU BIAL. adj. [connubialis, Latin.] Matrimonial; nuptial; pertaining to marriage; conjugal. Should second love a pleasing flame inspire, And the chaste queen connubial rites require. Pope's Odyssey. CO'NOID. n. s. xurosions.] A figure partaking of a cone; approaching to the form of a cone. The tympanum is not capable of tension as a drum: there remains another way, by drawing it to the centre into a conoid form. Holder. CONOIDICAL. adj. [from conoid.] Approaching to a conick form, to the form of a round decreasing. To CONQUA'SSATE. v. a. [conquasso, Latin.] To shake; to agitate. Not in use. Vomits do violently conquassate the lungs. Harvey. CONQUASSA'TION. n. s. [from conquassate.] Agitation; concussion. To CONQUER. v. a. [conquerir, Fr. conquirere, Latin.] 1. To gain by conquest; to overrun; to win. They had conquered them, and brought them under tribute. 1 Macc. Welcome, great Stagirite, and teach me now All I was born to know: Thy scholar's victories thou dost outdo; He conquer'd th' earth, the whole world you. Cowley. 'T was fit, Who conquer'd nature, should preside o'er wit. Popt. We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms; Their arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. Pope. 2. To overcome; to subdue; to vanquish. Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast; Yet neither conqueror nor conquered. Shaksp. The conquer'd also, and inslav'd by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose And fear of God. Anna conquers but to save, And governs but to bless. Milton. Smith. 3. To surmount; to overcome: as, he conquered his reluctance. To CONQUER. v. n. To get the victory; to overcome. Put him to choler straight: he hath been us'd Shakspeare's Coriolanus. While the heap is small, and the particulars few, he will find it easy and conquerable. South. CONQUEROR. n. s. [from conquer.] 1. A man that has obtained a victory; a victor. Bound with triumphant garlands will I come, And lead thy daughter to a conqueror's bed. Shakspeare's Richard 111. The gain of civil wars will not allow Bags for the conqueror's crew. Cowley. A critick that attacks authours in reputation, is as the slave who called out to the conqueret, Remember, sir, that you are a man. Addison. 2. One that subdues and ruins countries. Deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove. Mat. That tyrant god, that restless conqueror, May quit his pleasure to assert his pow'r. Prier. CONQUEST. n. s. [conqueste, French.] 1. The act of conquering; subjection. A perfect conquest of a country reduces all the people to the condition of subjects. Davies. 2. Acquisition by victory; thing gained. More willingly I mention air, This our old conquest; than remember hell, Our hated habitation. Milton's Par. Reg. 3. Victory; success in arms. I must yield my body to the earth, And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe. Shai. I'll lead thy daughter to a conqueror's bed; To whom I will retail my conquest won, And she shall be sole victress. Shakspeare. Not to be overcome, was to do more Than all the conquests former kings did gain. Dryden In joys of conquest he resigns his breath, And, fill'd with England's glory, smiles in death. blood? CONSANGUINEOUS. adj. [consangui neus, Lat.] Near of kin; of the same blood; related by birth, not affined. Am I not consanguineous? Am I not of her Shakspeare. CONSANGUINITY. n. s. [consanguinitas, Lat.] Relation by blood; relation by descent from one common progenitor; nearness of kin: distinguished from affinity, or relation by marriage. I've forgot my father; I know no touch of consanguinity. Shakspeare. There is the supreme and indissoluble consan guinity and society between men in general; cf which the heathen poet, whom the apostle calls to witness, saith, We are all his generation. Bacon's Holy War. The first original would subsist, though he outlived all terms of consanguinity, and became a stranger unto his progeny. Brown's Vulg. Err. Christ has condescended to a cognation and consanguinity with us. South. CONSARCINATION. n. s. [from consarcino, Latin, to piece.] The act of patching together. Dict. CONSCIENCE. n. s. [conscientia, Lat.} 1. The knowledge or faculty by which we judge of the goodness or wickedness of ourselves. When a people have no touch of conscience, DO sense of their evil doings, it is bootless to think to restrain them. Spenser Who against faith and conscience can be heard Infallible? Milton's Paradise Leit. Conscience has not been wanting to itself in endeavouring to get the clearest information about the will of God. South. But why must those be thought to 'scape, that feel Those rods of scorpions, and those whips of steel, Which conscience shakes? Creech's Juvenal. No courts created yet, nor cause was heard; But all was safe, for conscience was their guard. Dryden's Ovid. Conscience signifies that knowledge which a mata hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judges fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him, this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge. Swift. 2. Justice; the estimate of conscience; the determination of conscience; honesty. This is sometimes a serious, and sometimes a ludicrous sense. This is thank-worthy; if a man, for conscience toward God, endure grief. 1 Peter. Now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes restitution. Shaksp. Merry Wives of Windsor. He had against right and conscience, by shameful treachery, intruded himself into another man's kingdom. Knolles. What you require cannot, in conscience, be deMilton. ferred beyond this time. Her majesty is obliged in conscience to endea your this by her authority, as much as by her practice. Swift. 3. Consciousness; knowledge of our own thoughts or actions. Merit, and good works, is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomBacon. plishment of man's rest. The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the conscience of their own ig norance. Hooker. The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denb. Hector was in an absolute certainty of death, and depressed with the conscience of being in an ill cause. Pope. 4. Real sentiment; veracity; private thoughts. Dost thou in conscience think, tell me, Emilia, That there be women do abuse their husbands In such gross kind? Shakspeare's Othello. They did in their consciences know, that he was not able to send them any part of it, Clarendon. 5. Scruple; principle of action. We must make a conscience in keeping the just laws of superiours. Taylor's Holy Living. Why should not the one make as much conscience of betraying for gold, as the other of doing it for a crust? L'Estrange. Children are travellers newly arrived in a Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the con- To think I shall lack friends? if they will content themselves with less proft Locke. than they can make. CO'NSCIONABLE. adj. [from conscience.] Reasonable; just; according to conscience. A knave, very voluble; no farther conscionable than in putting on the meer form of civil and humane seeming. Shakspeare. Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction. Co'NSCIONABLENESS. n.s. [from consci- A prince must be used conscionably, as well as a common person.. Taylor's Holy Living. Co'NSCIOUS. adj. [conscius, Latin.] 1. Endowed with the power of knowing one's own thoughts and actions. Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence. Bentley. Among substances, some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. Watts. Knowing from memory; having the knowledge of any thing without any new information. 2. The damsel then to Tancred sent, 3. Admitted to the knowledge of any The rest stood trembling, struck with awe di- Eneas only, conscious to the sign, Dryden's Encid 4. Bearing witness by the dictate of conscience to any thing. The queen had been solicitous with the king on his behalf, being conscious to herself that he had been encouraged by her. Clarendon. CO'NSCIOUSLY. adv. [from conscious.] With knowledge of one's own actions. If these perceptions, with their consciousness, always remained in the mind, the same thinking thing would be always consciously present. Locke. CO'NSCIOUSNESS. n. s. [from conscious.] 1. The perception of what passes in a man's own mind. Swift. Locka. Shakspeare. Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should require. CONSCIENTIOUS. adj. [from conscience.] Scrupulous; exactly just; regulated by conscience. Lead a life in so conscientious a probity, as in thought, word, and deed, to make good the character of an honest man. L'Estrange. CONSCIENTIOUSLY. adv. [from conscientious.] According to the direction of conscience. More stress has been laid upon the strictness of law, than conscientiously did belong to it. L'Estrange. There is the erroneous as well as the rightly informed conscience; and, if the conscience happens to be deluded, sin does not therefore cease to be sin because a man committed it conscientiously. South. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. n. s. [from conscientious.] Exactness of justice; tenderness of conscience. It will be a wonderful conscientiousness in them, If spirit be without thinking, I have no idea of any thing left: therefore consciousness must be its essential attribute. Watts' Logick. 2. Internal sense of guilt, or innocence. No man doubts of a Supreme Being, until, from the consciousness of his provocations, it become his interest there should be none. Government of the Tongue. Such ideas, no doubt, they would have had, had not their consciousness to themselves, of their ignorance of them, kept them from so idle an Locke. attempt. An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace, there must be some guilt of consciousness. Pope. Co'NSCRIPT. adj. [from conscribo, Lat.] A term used in speaking of the Roman senators, who were called Patres conscripti, from their names being written in the register of the senate. CONSCRIPTION. n. s. [conscriptio, Lat.] An enrolling or registering. Dict. To enter, consecrate to me; Or touch this hallow'd mold? "Drayton's Cynthia. CO'NSECRATER. n. s. [from consecrate.] One that performs the rites by which any thing is devoted to sacred purposes. Whether it be not against the notion of a sacrament, that the consecrater alone should partake of it. Atterbury. CONSECRATION. n. s. [from consecrate.] 1. A rite or ceremony of dedicating and devoting things or persons to the service of God, with an application of certain proper solemnities. Ayliffe's Pur. At the erection and consecration as well of the tabernacle as of the temple, it pleased the Almighty to give a sign. Hocker. The consecration of his God is upon his head. We must know that consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemnly declares it so: the gift of the owner to God makes it God's, and consequently sacred. South. 2. The act of declaring one holy by canonization. The calendar swells with new consecrations of saints. Hale. CONSECTARY. adj. [from consectarius, Latin Consequent; consequential ; following by consequence. From the inconsistent and contrary determinations thereof, consectary impieties and conclusions may arise. Βγοτυπο CO'NSECTARY. n. s. [from the adjective.] Deduction from premises; consequence; corollary. These propositions are consectaries drawn from the observations. Woodward's Nat. Hist. CONSECUTION. n. s. [consecutio, Latin.] 1. Train of consequences; chain of deductions; concatenation of propositions. Some consecutions are so intimately and evidently connexed to or found in the premises, that the conclusion is attained, and without any thing of ratiocinative progress. Hale. 2. Succession. In astronomy. The month of consecution, or, as some term it, of progression, is the space between one con junction of the moon with the sun unto another. Brown's Vulgar Error, The moon makes four quarterly seasons within her little year, or month of consecution. Holder. CONSECUTIVE. adj. [consecutif, Fr.] . Following in train; uninterrupted; successive. That obligation upon the lands did not come into disuse but by fifty consecutive years of ex emption. Arbuthnot on Coins. 2. Consequential; regularly succeeding. This is seeming to comprehend only the actions of a man, consecutive to volition. Locke. CONSECUTIVELY. adv. [from consecu tive.] A term used in the school philosophy, in opposition to antecedently, and sometimes to effectively or causally. Dict. To CONSE'MINATE. v. a. [consemino, Latin.] To sow different seeds toge ther. Dict. CONSE'NSION. n. s. [consensio, Latin.] Agreement; accord. A great number of such living and thinking particles could not possibly, by their mutual contact, and pressing and striking, compose one greater individual animal, with one mind and understanding, and a vital consension of the whole body. Bentley. CONSENT. n. s. [consensus, Latin.] 1. The act of yielding or consenting. I am far from excusing or denying that com pliance; for plenary consent it was not. K. Charles. When thou canst truly call these virtues thine, Be wise and free, by heav'n's consent and mine. Dryden's Persius. 2. Concord; agreement; accord; unity of opinion. The fighting winds would stop there and admire, Learning consent and concord from his lyre. Cerol, Davideis. 3. Coherence with; relation to; corre spondence. Demons found 4. Tendency to one point; joint operation. Such is the world's great harmony, that springs From order, union, full consent of things. Pep In physick. 5. The perception one part has of another, by means of some fibres and nerves common to them both: and thus the stone in the bladder, by vellicating the fibres there, will affect and draw them so into spasms, as to affect the bowels in the same manner by the intermediation of nervous threads, and cause a colick; and extend their twitches sometimes to the stomach, and occasion vomitings. Quincy, To CONSENT. v. n. [consentio, Latin.] 1. To be of the same mind; to agree. Though what thou tell'st some doubt within CON 3. To yield; to give consent; to allow; to admit with to Ye comets, scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death! Shaks. if will be as we In this we consent unto you, ye Genesis be. What in sleep thou didst abhor to dream, Waking thou never wilt consent to do. Milton. Their num'rous thunder would awake Dull earth, which does with heav'n consent Waller. To all they wrote. CONSENTA'NEOUS. adj. [consentaneus, Lat.] Agreeable to; consistent with. In the picture of Abraham sacrificing his son, Isaac is described a little boy; which is not consentaneous unto the circumstance of the text. Brown., It will cost no pains to bring you to the knowing, nor to the practice; it being very agreeable and consentaneous to every one's nature. Hammond's Practical Catechism. CONSENTANEOUSLY, adv. [from consentaneous.] Agreeably; consistently; suitably. Paracelsus did not always write so consentaneusly to himself, that his opinions were confidently to be collected from every place of his writings, where he seems to express it. Boyle. CONSENTANEOUSNESS. n. s. [from consentaneous.] Agreement; consistence. Dict. CONSENTIENT. adj. [consentiens, Lat.] Agreeing; united in opinion; not differing in sentiment. The authority due to the censentient judgment and practice of the universal church. Oxford Reasons against the Covenant, CONSEQUENCE. n. s. [consequentia, Latin.] 1. That which follows from any cause or principle. 2. Event; effect of a cause. All mortal consequences, have pronounc'd it. Shak. Milton. 3. Proposition collected from the agree ment of other previous propositions ; deduction; conclusion. It is no good consequence, that reason aims at our being happy, therefore it forbids all volun Decay of Piety. tary sufferings. 4. The last proposition of a syllogism: as, what is commanded by our Saviour is our duty; prayer is commanded; cons. therefore prayer is our duty. Can syllogism set things right? No, majors soon with minors fight: Or, both in friendly consort join'd, The consequence limps false behind. 5. Concatenation of causes and effects; consecution. Prior. Sorrow being the natural and direct offer of sin; that which first brought sin into the world, must, by necessary consequence, bring in sorrow South. too. I felt That I must after thee, with this thy son: Such fatal consequence unites us three. Milton. 6. That which produces consequences; influence; tendency. Asserted without any colour of scriptureproof, it is of very ill consequence to the superructing of good life, Hammond. 7. Importance; moment. The instruments of darkness CO'NSEQUENT. adj. [consequens, Latin.] It was not a power possible to be inherited, 3. Sometimes with upon. This satisfaction or dissatisfaction, consequent upon a man's acting suitably or unsuitably to conscience, is a principle not easily to be worn South. out. They were ill paid; and they were ill governed, 1. Produced by the necessary concatena- We sometimes wrangle, when we should de- Prior. A consequential ill which freedom draws; A bad effect, but from a noble cause. 2. Having the consequences justly connected with the premises; conclusive. Though these kind of arguments may seem obscure; yet, upon a due consideration of them they are highly consequential and concludent to Hale's Origin of Mankind. my purpose. CONSEQUENTIALLY. adv. [from consequential.] 1. With just deduction of consequences; with right connexion of ideas. Nobody writes a book without meaning something; though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially, and expressing his meaning. Addison's Whig Examiner. 2. By consequence; not immediately; eventually. This relation is so necessary, that God himself cannot discharge a rational creature from it; although consequentially indeed he may do so, by the annihilation of such creatures. Sout, 3. In a regular series. Were a man a king in his dreams, and a beg gar awake, and dreamt consequentially, and in continued unbroken schemes, would he be in Addison. reality a king or a beggar? CONSEQUENTIALNESS. . . [from consequential.] Regular consecution of dis Dict. course. COʻNSEQUENTLY.adv. [from consequent.] 1. By consequence; necessarily; inevita 1 |