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Compromit

To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise.

Comprovincial

Belonging to, or associated in, the same province. One who belongs to the same province.

Compsognathus

A genus of carnivorous Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation with a slender body, and remarkable for having several birdlike features. It reached a length of 30 inches when adult.

Comptible

Accountable; responsible; sensitive.

Comptograph

A machine for adding numbers and making a printed record of the sum. An older term for an adding machine.

Comptroler

A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts.

Compulsatory

Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion.

Compulsion

The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.

Compulsive

Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

Compulsory

Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

Compunct

Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken.

Compunctious

Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.

Compunctive

Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious.

Compurgation

The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

Compurgator

One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

Computable

Capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned.

Computation

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

computer program

a sequence of instructions, stored in any medium, that can be interpreted and executed by a computer; -- called most frequently a program. This term is used both for the written program (a document) and for its corresponding electronic version stored or executed on the computer. See instruction; as, Version 1.0 of the program had a serious bug that caused the computer to crash frequently..

computerize

to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now.

Comrade

A mate, companion, or associate.

comradely

like a comrade; heartily friendly and congenial.

Comradery

The spirit of comradeship; comradeship.

Comradeship

The state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship.

Comtism

Positivism; the positive philosophy. See Positivism.

Comtist

A disciple of Comte; a positivist.

Con

To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.

Conacre

A system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop. Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle.

Conakry

The capital city of Guinea. Population (2000) = 1,508,000.

Conation

The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

Conatus

A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort.

Concatenate

To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.

Concatenation

A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

Concaved

Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.

Concavity

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

Concavo-convex

Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.

Conceal

To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.

Concealment

The act of concealing; the state of being concealed.

Concede

To yield or make concession.

conceded

acknowledged. Opposite of unacknowledged.

Conceivable

Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood.

Conceive

To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.

Concent

Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes.

Concentrate

To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.

concentrated

Having a high density of (the indicated substance); as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore.

Concentration

The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.

Concentrative

Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration.

Concentrator

An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.

Concentre Concenter

To draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate.

Concentric

That which has a common center with something else.

Concept

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

Conceptacle

That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.

Conception

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

Conceptualism

A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects.

conceptualize

to to form a concept of; as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.

Concern

That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.

Concerned

Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.

Concernedly

In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.

Concerning

That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.

Concert

Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.

Concertante

A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts.

Concerted

Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals.

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