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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.

Concrete

To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.

Concretion

The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.

Concretionary

Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions.

Concubinage

The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

Concubine

A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.

Concupiscent

Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious.

Concupiscible

Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires.

Concupy

Concupiscence. [Used only in /Troilus and Cressida/]

Concur

To run together; to meet.

Concurrence

The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination.

Concurrent

One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.

Concussion

A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies.

Concussive

Having the power or quality of shaking or agitating.

Cond

To con, as a ship.

Condemn

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

Condemnation

The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.

Condemnatory

Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.

Condemned

Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

Condensable

Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable.

Condensation

The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.

condensed

representing two or more ideas or emotions by a single symbol; as, a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas.

Condensible

Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.

Conder

One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

Condescend

To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.

condescending

exhibiting an attitude of superiority; patronizing; -- used of behavior or attitude.

Condescension

The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.

Condign

Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.

Condignity

Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence.

Condiment

Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning.

Condite

To pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc.

Condition

To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.

Conditionality

The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.

Conditionally

In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively.

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