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Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee?

To CONSORT. v. a.

1. To join; to mix; to marry.

He, with his consorted Eve,

Dryden.

The
story
He begins to consort himself with men, and
thinks himself one.
Locke on Education.

heard attentive. Milton's Par. Lost.

2. To accompany. Not used.

I'll meet with you upon the mart, And afterward consort you till bed time. Shaksp. CONSO'RTABLE. adj. [from consort.] To be compared with; to be ranked with; suitable. Not used.

He was consortable to Charles Brandon, under Wotton. Henry VIII. who was equal to him. CONSORTION. n. s. [consortio, Latin.] Partnership; fellowship; society. Dict. CONSPECTABLE. adj. [from conspectus, Dict. Latin.] Easy to be seen. CONSPECTUITY. n. s. [from conspectus, Latin.] Sight; view; sense of seeing. This word is, I believe, peculiar to Shakspeare, and perhaps corrupt.

Dict.

What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character? Shakspeare's Coriolanus. CONSPERSION. n. s. [conspersio, Latin.] A sprinkling about. CONSPICUITY. n. s. [from conspicuous.] Brightness; favourableness to the sight. If this definition be clearer than the thing defined, midnight may vie for conspicuity with Glanville's Scepsis. CONSPICUOUS. adj. [conspicuus, Lat.] 1. Obvious to the sight; seen at a distance.

noon.

Or come I less conspicuous? Or what change
Milton's Paradise Lost.
Absents thee?
2. Eminent; famous; distinguished.

He attributed to each of them that virtue
which he thought most conspicuous in them.
Dryden's Juvenal, Dedication.
Thy father's merit points thee out to view;
And sets thee in the fairest point of light,
To make thy virtues or thy faults conspicuous.
Addison's Cato.

The house of lords,

CONSPICUOUSLY. adv. [from conspicu
ous.]

1. Obviously to the view.

These methods may be preserved conspicuously,
Watts' Logick.
and intirely distinct.
2. Eminently; famously; remarkably.
CONSPICUOUSNESS. n... [from conspi-
cuous.]

1. Exposure to the view; state of being
visible at a distance.

Looked on with such a weak light, they ap-
pear well proportioned fabricks; yet they appear
so but in that twilight, which is requisite to
their conspicuousness.
Boyle's Proem. Essay.
2. Eminence; fame; celebrity.

Their writings attract more readers by the author's conspicuousness. Boyle on Colours. CONSPIRACY. n. s. [conspiratio, Latin.] 1. A private agreement among several persons to commit some crime; a plot; a concerted treason.

O conspiracy!

Sham'st thou to shew thy dang'rous brow by night,

When evils are most free?

Shakspeare.

I had forgot that foul conspiracy
Of the beast Caliban, and his confed'rates,
Against my life.

Shakspeare's Tempest.
When scarce he had escap'd the blow
Of faction and conspiracy,

Death did his promis'd hopes destroy. Dryden.
2. In law, an agreement of men to do
any thing; always taken in the evil
part. It is taken for a confederacy of
two, at the least, falsely to indict one,
or to procure one to be indicted, of fe-
Cowell.
lony.
A concurrence; a general tendency of
many causes to one event.

3.

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When the time now came that misery was
ripe for him, there was a conspiracy in all hea
venly and earthly things, to frame fit occasions
Sidney.
to lead him unto it.
The air appearing so malicious in this morbinc
conspiracy, exacts a more particular regard.
Harvey on Consumptions.
CONSPIRANT. adj. [conspirans, Latin.]
Conspiring; engaging in a conspiracy
or plot; plotting.

Thou art a traitor,
Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince.
Shakspeare's King Lear.
CONSPIRATION. n. s. [conspiratio, Lat.]
An agreement of many to one end.

One would wonder how, from so differing premises, they should infer the same conclusion, were it not that the conspiration of interest were too potent for the diversity of judgment.

Decay of Piety. CONSPIRATOR. n.s. [from conspiro, Lat.] A man engaged in a plot; one who has secretly concerted with others the commission of a crime; à plotter. Achitophel is among the conspirators with Ab2 Samuel

salom.

Stand back, thou manifest conspirator;"
Thou that contriv'st to murder our dread lord.
Shakspeare.

But let the bold conspirator beware;
For heav'n makes princes its peculiar care. Dryd.
One put into his hand a note of the whole con-
spiracy against him, together with all the names
of the conspiraters.

South.

Conspicuous scene! Pope's Epistles of Horace. To CONSPIRE. v. n. [conspiro, Latin.]

Tt2

1. To concert a crime; to plot; to hatch secret treason.

Tell me what they deserve,

That do conspire my death with devilish plots Of damned witchcraft. Shakspeare's Rich. 111. What was it

That mov'd pale Cassius to conspire? Shaks. They took great indignation, and conspired against the king. Apocrypha. Let the air be excluded; for that undermineth the body, and conspireth with the spirit of the body to dissolve it.

Bacon. There is in man a natural possibility to destroy the world; that is, to conspire to know no woBrown's Vulgar Errours.

man.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. Roscom. 2. To agree together: as, all things conspire to make him happy.

So moist and dry, when Phoebus shines, Conspiring give the plant to grow. Heigh. CONSPIRER. n. s. [from conspire.] A conspirator; a plotter.

Take no care,

Who chafes, who frets, and where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be. Shakspeare.

The constable being a sober man, and an ene my to sedition, went to observe what they did. Clarendon,

2. To overrun the CONSTABLE. [perhaps from conte stable, Fr. the settled, firm, and stated account.] To spend more than what a man knows himself to be worth a low phrase.

Co'NSTABLESHIP. n. s. [from constable.] The office of a constable.

This keepership is annexed to the constablesbip of the castle, and that granted out in lease. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. Co'NSTANCY. n. s. [constantia, Latin.] 1. Immutability; perpetuity; unalterable continuance.

The laws of God himself no man will ever deny to be of a different constitution from the former, in respect of the one's constancy, and the mutability of the other. Hooker.

2. Consistency; unvaried state.

Incredible, that constancy in such a variety, such a multiplicity, should be the result of Ray on the Creation.

chance.

CONSPIRING Powers. [In mechanicks.] 3. Resolution; firmness; steadiness; un

All such as act in direction not opposite to one another. Harris. CONSPURCATION. n. s. [from conspurco, Latin.] The act of defiling; defilement; pollution.

CONSTABLE. n. s. [comes stabuli, as it is supposed.]

1. Lord high constable is an ancient officer of the crown. The function of the constable of England consisted in the care of the common peace of the land in deeds of arms, and in matters of war. To the court of the constable and marshal belonged the cognizance of contracts, deeds of arms without the realm, and combats and blazonry of arms within it. The first constable of England was created by the Conqueror, and the office continued hereditary till the thirteenth of Henry v111. when it was laid aside, as being so powerful as to become troublesome to the king. From these mighty magistrates are derived the inferiour constables of hundreds and franchises; two of whom were ordained, in the thirteenth of Edward 1. to be chosen in every hundred, for the conservation of the peace, and view of armour. These are now called high constables; because continuance of time, and increase both of people and offences, have occasioned others in every town of inferiour authority, called petty constables.

Besides these, we have constables deno-
minated from particular places; as,
"constable of the Torver, of Dover Castle,
of the Castle of Carnarvon: but these
are properly castellani, or governours of
castles.
Corvell. Chambers.
When I came hither, I was lord high constable,
And duke of Buckingham; now poor Edward
Bohun.
Shakspeare.

The knave constable had set me i' th' stocks,

shaken determination.

In a small isle, amidst the widest seas, Triumphant constancy has fix'd her seat; In vain the syrens sing, the tempests beat. Prier. 4. Lasting affection; continuance of love, or friendship.

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Constancy is such a stability and firmness of friendship as overlooks and passes by lesser failures of kindness, and yet still retains the same habitual good-will to a friend. South Certainty; veracity; reality.

But all the story of the night told over, More witnesseth than fancy's images, And grows to something of great constancy, But, however, strange and admirable. Shaki, CONSTANT. adj. [constans, Latin.] 1. Firm; fixed; not fluid.

2.

3.

4.

5.

If you take highly rectified spirit of wine, and dephlegmed spirit of urine, and mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a con stant body. Boyle's History of Firmas. Unvaried; unchanged; immutable; durable.

The world's a scene of changes; and to be Constant, in nature were inconstancy. Cowley. Firm; resolute; determined; immovable; unshaken.

Some shrewd contents

Now steal the colour from Bassanio's cheek:
Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world
Could turn so much the constitution
Of any constant man. Shakspeare's Mer. of Va.
Free from change of affection.
Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained
constant friends.

Sidney

Certain; not various; steady; firmly

adherent: with to.

Now through the land his care of souls he stretch'd,

And like a primitive apostle preach'd: Still cheerful, ever constant to his call; "By many follow'd, lov'd by most, admir'd by

all.

Dryden.

He shewed his firm adherence to religion, as modelled by our national constitution; and was constant to its offices in devotion both in publick and in his family. Addison's Freebelder.

i' th' common stocks, for a witch. Shakspeare, CONSTANTLY. adv. [from constant.]

Unvariably; perpetually; certainly; steadily.

It is strange that the fathers should never appeal; nay, that they should not constantly do it. Tillotson.

To CONSTELLATE. v. n. [constellatus, Latin.] To join lustre; to shine with one general light. The several things which engage our affections, do, in a transcendent manner, shine forth and constellate in God.

Boyle. To CONSTELLATE. v. a. To unite several shining bodies in one splendour. Great constitutions, and such as are constellated into knowledge, do nothing till they outdo all. Brown's Vulgar Errours. These scattered perfections,which were divided among the several ranks of inferior natures, were summed up and constellated in ours. Glanville. CONSTELLATION.n.s. [from constellate.] 1. A cluster of fixed stars.

For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, shall not give their light.

The earth, the air, resounded;

Isaiah.

The heav'ns, and all the constellations rung.
Milton's Par. Lost.

A constellation is but one; Though 't is a train of stars. Dryden. 2. An assemblage of splendours, or excellencies.

The condition is a constellation or conjuncture of all those gospel graces, faith, hope, charity, self-denial, repentance, and the rest. Hammond. CONSTERNATION. n. s. [from consterno, Lat.] Astonishment; amazement; alienation of mind by a surprise; surprise; wonder..

They find the same holy consternation upon themselves that Jacob did at Bethel, which he called the gate of heaven. South.

The natives, dubious whom
They must obey, in consternation wait
Till rigid conquest will pronounce their liege.

Philips. To CONSTIPATE. v. a. [from constipo, Latin.]

1. To crowd together into a narrow room; to thicken; to condense.

Of cold, the property is to condense and conBacon, stipate.

It may, by amassing, cooling, and constipating of waters, turn them into rain. Ray.

There might arise some vertiginous motions or whirlpools in the matter of the chaos, whereby the atoms might be thrust and crowded to the middle of those whirlpools, and there constipate one another into great solid globes. Bentley. 2. To stop up, or stop by filling up the passages.

It is not probable that any aliment should have the quality of intirely constipating or shutting up the capillary vessels. Arbuthnot.

3. To bind the belly, or make costive.

Omitting honey, which is laxative, and the powder of some loadstones in this, doth rather constipate and bind, than purge and loosen the belly. Brown's Vulgar Errours. CONSTIPATION. n. s. [from constipate.] 1. The act of crowding any thing into less room; condensation.

This worketh by the detention of the spirits, Bacon. and constipation of the tangible parts.

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It requires either absolute fullness of matter, or a pretty close constipation and mutual contact Bentley. of its particles. 2. Stoppage; obstruction by plenitude.

The inactivity of the gall occasions a constipa tion of the belly. Arbuthnot.

3. The state of having the body bound. CONSTITUENT. adj. [constituens, Lat.] That makes any thing what it is; necessary to existence; elemental; ́essential; that of which any thing consists. Body, soul, and reason, are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man. Dryden. All animals derived all the constituent matter of their bodies, successively, in all ages, out of this fund. Woodward.

It is impossible that the figures and sizes of its constituent particles should be so justly adapted as to touch one another in every point. Bentley. CONSTITUENT. n. 5.

1. The person or thing which constitutes or settles any thing in its peculiar state. . Their first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler constituent than chance. Hale. That which is necessary to the subsistence of any thing.

2.

The obstruction of the mesentery is a great impediment to nutrition; for the lymph in those glands is a necessary constituent of the aliment. Arbuthnot. 3. He that deputes another; as, the representatives in parliament disregard their constituents.

TCONSTITUTE. v. a. [constituo, Lat.] 1. To give formal existence; to make any thing what it is; to produce.

Prudence is not only a moral but christian virtue, such as is necessary to the constituting of all others. Decay of Piety.

2. To erect; to establish.

We must obey laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority, not against the law of God. Taylor's Holy Living.

It will be necessary to consider, how at first those several churches were constituted, that we may understand how in this one church they were all united. Pearson. 3. To depute; to appoint another to an office.

CO'NSTITUTER. n. s. [from constitute.] He that constitutes or appoints. CONSTITUTION. n. s. [from constitute.] 1. The act of constituting; enacting; deputing; establishing; producing. 2. State of being; particular texture of parts; natural qualities.

3.

4.

This is more beneficial than any other constitution. Bentley. This light being trajected through the parallel prisms, if it suffered any change by the refrac tion of one, it lost that impression by the contrary refraction of the other; and so, being restored to its pristine constitution, became of the same condition as at first. Newton's Opticks. Corporeal frame.

Amongst many bad effects of this oily constitution, there is one advantage; such who arrive to age are not subject to stricture of fibres. Arbuthnot on Aliments. Temper of body, with respect to health or disease.

If such men happen, by their native constitutions, to fall into the gout, either they mind it not at all, having no leisure to be sick, or they Temple. use it like a dog. Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

5. Temper of mind.

Dryd

Dametas, according to the constitution of a dull head, thinks no better way to shew himself wise than by suspecting everything in his way. Sidney. Some dear friend dead; else nothing in, the world

Could turn so much the constitution

Of any constant man.

Shakspeare.

He defended himself with undaunted courage, and less passion than was expected from his constitution. Clarendon.

6. Established form of government; system of laws and customs.

The Norman, conquering all by might; Mixing our customs, and the form of right, With foreign constitutions he had brought. Daniel. 7. Particular law; established usage; establishment; institution.

We lawfully may observe the positive constitutions of our own churches.

Hooker. Constitution, properly speaking in the sense of the civil law, is that law which is made and ordained by some king or emperor; yet the canonists, by adding the word sacred to it, make it to signify the same as an ecclesiastical canon.Ayliffe. CONSTITUTIONAL. adj. [from constitution.]

1. Bred in the constitution; radical.

It is not probable any constitutional illness will be communicated with the small pox by inoculation. Sharp's Surgery. 2. Consistent with the civil constitution; legal. CONSTITUTIVE. adj. [from constitute.] 1. That constitutes any thing what it is; elemental; essential; productive.

Although it be placed among the non-naturals, that is, such as neither naturally constitutive nor merelydestructive,do preserve or destroy. Brown. The elements and constitutive parts of a schismatick, being the esteem of himself, and the contempt of others. Decay of Piety. 2. Having the power to enact or establish. To CONSTRAIN. v. a. [contraindre, Fr. constrin, o, Lat.]

1. To compel; to force to some action.
Thy sight, which should
Make our eyes flow with joy,
Constrains thein weep.

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Shaks. Coriolanus. Namur subdued, is England's palm alone; The rest besieg'd, but we constrain'd, the town. Dryden.

2. To hinder by force; to restrain.

3.

My sire in caves constrains the winds:

Can with a breath their clam'rous rage appease; They fear his whistle,and forsake the seas. Dryd.

To necessitate.

The scars upon your honour, therefore, he
Does pity as constrained blemishes,
Nothing deserv'd.

Shakspeare. When to his lust Ægysthus gave the rein, Did fate or we th' adult'rous act constrain? Pope. 4. To violate; to ravish.

Her spotless chastity, Inhuman traitors! you constrain'd and forc'd. Shakspeare.

5. To confine; to press.

When amidst the fervour of the feast, The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast, And with sweet kisses in her arms constrains, Thou may'st infuse thy venom in her veins. Dryd. How the strait stays the slender waste constrain. Gay.

6. To constringe.

When winter frosts constrain the field with cold, The scanty root can take no steady hold. Dryd. 7. To tie; to bind.

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nature.

In this northern tract our hoarser throats Utter unripe and ill constrained notes. Waller. 10. To restrain; to withhold.

The soft weapons of paternal persuasions, after mankind began to forget the original giver of life, became overweak to resist the first inclinstion of evil: or after, when it became habitual, Raleigh to constrain it. CONSTRAINABLE. adj. [from constrain.] Liable to constraint; obnoxious to compulsion.

Whereas men before stood bound in conscience to do as reason teacheth, they are now, by virtue of human law, constrainable; and, if they outHonker. wardly transgress, punishable. CONSTRAINEDLY.adv.[from By constraint; by compulsion.

constrain.]

What occasion it had given them to think, to their greater obduration in evil, that through a froward and wanton desire of innovation we did constrainedly those things, for which conscience was pretended. CONSTRAINER. n. s. [from constrain.]

He that constrains.

Hooker.

CONSTRAINT. n. s. [contrainte, Fr.] 1. Compulsion; compelling force; violence; act of overruling the desire; confinement.

I did suppose it should be on constraint; But, heav'n be thank'd, it is but voluntary. Shak Like you, a man; and hither led by fame, Not by constraint, but by my choice I came.Dryd

The constant desire of happiness, and the c straint it puts upon us to act for it, no body, I think, accounts an abridgment of liberty. Lacke, 2. Confinement. Out of use.

His limbs were waxen weak and raw, Thro' long imprisonment, and hard constraint. Spenser To CONSTRICT. v. a. [constringo, con strictum, Lat.]

1. To bind; to cramp ; to confine into a

narrow compass.

2. To contract; to cause to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibres,and strengthen the solid parts. Arbuthnot on Diet. CONSTRICTION. n. s. [from constrict.] Contraction; compression; forcible contraction. Compression is from an outward force, constriction from some qua lity as the throat is compressed by a bandage, and constringed by a cold.

The air, which these receive into the lungs, may serve to render their bodies equiponderant to the water; and the constriction or dilatation of it may probably assist them to ascend or de scend in the water. Ray on the Creation. CONSTRICTOR. n. s. [constrictor, Lat.] That which compresses or contracts.

He supposed the constrictors of the eye-lids, must be strengthened in the supercilious. Arbath, To CONSTRINGE. v. a. [constringa Lat.] To compress; to contract; to bind; to force to contract itself.

CON

The dreadful spout,

Which shipmen do the hurricano call, Constring'd in mass by the almighty sun. Shaks. Strong liquors, especially inflammatory spirits, intoxicate, constringe, harden the fibres, and Arbuthnot. coagulate the fluids. CONSTRINGENT. adj.[constringens,Lat.] Having the quality of binding or compressing.

Try a deep well, or a conservatory of snow, where the cold may be more constringent. Bacon. Winter binds"

Our strengthen'd bodies in a cold embrace
Thomson's Winter.
Constringent.
To CONSTRUCT. v. a. [constructus▾
Latin.]

1. To build; to form; to compile; to
constitute.

Let there be an admiration of those divine attributes and prerogatives, for whose manifesting he was pleased to construct this vast fabrick. Boyle. 2. To form by the mind: as, he constructed a new system.

CONSTRUCTION. n. s. [constructio, Lat.]
1. The act of building; fabrication.
2. The form of building; structure;
conformation.

There's no art

To shew the mind's construction in the face.

Shakspeare. The ways were made of several layers of flat stones and flint: the construction was a little various, according to the nature of the soil, or the Arbuthnot. materials which they found. 3. [In grammar.] The putting of words, duly chosen,together in such a manner as is proper to convey a complete sense. Clarke.

Some particles constantly, and others in certain constructions, have the sense of a whole senLocke. tence contained in them.

4. The act of arranging terms in the proper order, by disentangling transpositions; the act of interpreting; expla

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nation.

This label, whose containing

Is so from sense in hardness, that I can
Make no collection of it; let him shew
His skill in the construction.

Shakspeare.

5. The sense; the meaning; interpreta

tion.

In which sense although we judge the apostle's words to have been uttered, yet hereunto we do not require them to yield, that think any other Hooker. construction more sound.

He that would live at ease should always put the best construction on business and conversation. Collier on the Spleen. Religion, in its own nature, produces good will towards men, and puts the mildest construction upon every accident that befals them. Spect. 6. Judgment; mental representation.

It cannot, therefore, unto reasonable constructions seem strange, or savour of singularity, that Brown. we have examined this point.

7. The manner of describing a figure or

problem in geometry.

8. CONSTRUCTION of Equations, in alge-
bra, is the method of reducing a known
equation into lines and figures, in order
to a geometrical demonstration.
CONSTRUCTURE. n. s. [from construct.]
Pile; edifice; fabrick.

They shall the earth's constructure closely bind,
And to the centre keep the parts confin'd.

Blackmore.

To CONSTRUE. v. a. [construo, Latin.]
1. To range words in their natural order;
to disentangle transposition.

I'll teach mine eyes, with meek humility,
Love-learned letters to her eyes to read;
Which her deep wit, that true heart's thought
can spell,

Will soon conceive, and learn to construe well.
Spenser.

Construe the times to their necessities,
And you shall say, indeed, it is the time,
And not the king, that doth you injuries. Shaks.
2. To interpret; to explain; to shew the
meaning.

I must crave that I be not so understood or
construed, as if any such thing, by virtue thereof,
could be done without the aid and assistance of
Hooker.
God's most blessed spirit.

Virgil is so very figurative, that he requires (I may almost say) a grammar apart to construe Dryden. him.

Thus we are put to construe and paraphrase our own words, to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our adversaries. Stillingf

When the word is construed into its idea, the
double meaning vanishes.

Addison.
To COʻNSTUPRATE. v. a. [constupro,
Lat.] To violate; to debauch; to de-
file.

CONSTUPRA'TION. n. s. [from constu-
prate.] Violation; defilement.
CONSUBSTANTIAL. adj. [consubstan-
tialis, Lat.]

1. Having the same essence or subsistence.
The Lord our God is but one God: in which
indivisible unity, notwithstanding we adore the
Father, as being altogether of himself, we glorify
that consubstantial Word, which is the Son; we
bless and magnify that co-essential Spirit, eter-
nally proceeding from both, which is the Holy
Hooker.
Ghost.

2.

Being of the same kind or nature.

It continueth a body consubstantial with our bodies; a body of the same, both nature and Hooker measure, which it had on earth.

In their conceits the human nature of Christ was not consubstantial to ours, but of another Brerewood. kind.

CONSUBSTANTIAʼLITY. n. s. [from consubstantial.]

1. Existence of more than one, in the same substance.

To

The eternity of the Son's generation, and his co-eternity and consubstantiality with the Father, Hammond. when he came down from heaven.

2. Participation of the same nature. CONSUBSTANTIATE. v. a. [from con and substantia, Latin ] To unite in one common substance or nature. CONSUBSTANTIATION. n. s. [from consubstantiate.] The union of the body of our blessed Saviour with the sacramental element, according to the Lutherans. In the point of consubstantiation, toward the latter end of his life, he changed his mind.

Atterbury. CONSUL. n. s. consul, consulendo, Lat.] 1. The chief magistrate in the Roman republick.

.

Or never be so noble as a consul,
Nor yoke with him for tribune.

Shakspeare.

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