To pardon; to forgive.

A very large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the Andes.

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, was a celebrated French philosopher and mathematician, Born at Ribemont, near St. Quentin, France, Sept. 17, 1743: died at Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris, March 28, 1794. . His most important work was on probability and the philosophy of mathematics. He was a deputy to the Legislative Assembly in 1791, and its president 1792, and a deputy to the Convention in 1792, where he sided with the Girondists. After the fall of the latter he was accused (Oct. 3, 1793) with Brissot, and went into hiding in Paris for eight months to save his life. He found shelter with a Madame Vernet. He then left the city, but was arrested at Clamart, near Bourg-la-Reine, and imprisoned. The next morning he was found dead, probably from poison. He contributed to the /Encyclop/die,/ and wrote /Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progr/s de l'esprit humain/ (1794), and various mathematical works./ His most important mathematical treatise was /Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions/ (1785), an extremely important work in the development of the theory of probability. His work in probability led him to a study of voting methods, and laid the groundwork for the various ranked-pairs voting methods, which are often referred to as Condorcet's Method (for which see . Robert D. Hilliard + Century Dictionary, 1906/ [PJC]

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

To conduct; to lead; to guide.

Conducive; tending.

The state or quality of being conducible; conducibleness.

Conducive; tending; contributing.

Quality of being conducible.

In a manner to promote.

Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote.

The quality of conducing.

To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.

Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm.

Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity.

Capable of being conducted.

The act of leading or guiding.

Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil.

The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the conductivity of a nerve.

One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.

Having the property of conducting.

A woman who leads or directs; a directress.

A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.

Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or /stivation.

A doubling together or folding; a duplication.

See Cundurango.

A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

Of or pertaining to a condyle.

A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface.

Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.

A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrane.

An arthropod.

To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks.

A large bloodsucking hemipterous insect of the family Reduviid/, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.

Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone-shaped disk of the flower head. They are cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.

See Conine.

The skunk.

a tropical Asian tree (Holarrhena pubescens or Holarrhena antidysenterica) with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.

A rabbit. See Cony.

Familiar talk or conversation.

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.

Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue.

One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents.

A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.

Fated or decreed with something else.

A comfit; a confection.

A composition of different materials.

Prepared as a confection.

A compounder.

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats.

Same as Confiture.

To confederate.

With the, the Confederate States of America.

To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.

A confederate.

The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states.

Of or pertaining to a confederation.

To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.

One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate.

The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

Relating to conference.

the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift. Same as conferral.

Capable of being conferred.

the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift.

given formally or officially.

Same as Conferee.

One who confers; one who converses.

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

Belonging to the confervae.

Like, or related to, the confervae.

Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae.

To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.

One who confesses to a priest.

One who makes a confession.

By confession; without denial.

One who makes a confession.

Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.

Pertaining to a confession of faith.

An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.

A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.

Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany.

One professing a certain faith.

One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith.

The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith.

See Cofessedly.

Bonbons; sweetmeats; confections.

One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.

To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; -- followed by to.

The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.

See Confidant.

Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.

the state or attribute of being secret; privacy; as, you must respect the confidentiality of your client's communications.

In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.

With confidence; with strong assurance; positively.

The quality of being confident.

One who confides.

That confides; trustful; unsuspicious.

To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.

Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing; shape; figure.

an approach to psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties.

To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.

Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited.

Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

having movement restricted to within a certain area; -- usually a building. Opposite of unconfined.

Without limitation or end; boundless.

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor.

Community of limits; contiguity.

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

That may be confirmed.

Confirmation.

The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.

Tending to confirm or establish.

One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer.

Serving to confirm; corroborative.

With confirmation.