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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.

Concertina

A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.

Concertino

A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto.

Concertmeister

The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.

Concerto

A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.

Concession

The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.

Concessive

Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction.

Concettism

The use of concetti or affected conceits.

Conch

A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. Strombus gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo and cameo conch.

Concha

The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.

Conchal

Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.

Conchifera

That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.

Conchiform

Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.

Conchite

A fossil or petrified conch or shell.

Conchitic

Composed of shells; containing many shells.

Concho-spiral

A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells.

Conchoid

A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.

Conchoidal

Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

Conchology

The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.

Conchometer

An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.

Conchometry

The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.

Conciator

The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.

Concierge

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

Conciliabule

An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable.

Conciliate

To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

Conciliation

The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated.

Conciliatory

Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.

Concinnate

To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear.

Concinnity

Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse.

Concinnous

Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant.

Concionatory

Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses.

Concise

Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

Concision

A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction.

Concitation

The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating.

Conclave

The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.

Conclavist

One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave.

Conclude

To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate.

Concludency

Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion.

Concludent

Bringing to a close; decisive; conclusive.

Conclusion

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

Conclusive

Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision.

Conclusively

In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively.

Concoct

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

Concoction

A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

Concoctive

Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive.

Concolor

Of the same color; of uniform color.

Concomitant

One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment.

Concordant

Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant.

Concordat

A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything.

Concourse

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.

Concrement

A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union.

Concrescence

Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles.

Concrescible

Capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state.

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