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Confucius

a Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC), the founder of Confucianism.

Confuse

To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

confused

same as confounded; as, bewildered and confused.

confusing

causing mental confusion and perplexity.

Confusion

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

Confusive

Confusing; having a tendency to confusion.

Confutation

The act or process of confuting; refutation.

Confute

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

confuting

the act of demonstrating that something is false; confutation.

Cong

An abbreviation of Congius.

conga

music composed for dancing the conga.

Conge

To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow ceremoniously, or courtesy.

Congeable

Permissible; done lawfully; as, entry congeable.

Congeal

To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled.

congealed

solidified; as, congealed into jelly.

Congealment

The act or the process of congealing; congeliation.

Congee

Boiled rice; rice gruel.

Congelation

The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.

Congener

A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.

Congenerical Congeneric

Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action; of or pertaining to a congener.

Congenerous

Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases.

Congenial

Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.

Congeniality

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.

Congenially

In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.

Congenital

Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital deformity; a congenital liar. See Connate and native.

Congenite

Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital.

Conger

The conger eel; -- called also congeree.

Congeries

A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.

Congestion

The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.

Congestive

Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.

Congiary

A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius.

Congius

A liquid measure containing about three quarts.

Conglaciation

The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost.

Conglobate

To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together.

Conglobe

To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass.

Conglomerate

To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

Conglomeration

The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation.

Conglutin

A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.

Conglutinant

Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.

Conglutinate

To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.

Conglutination

A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union.

Congo Congou

Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. Also called English breakfast tea. See Tea.

Congolese

a native or inhabitant of the Republic of Congo.

Congratulate

To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country.

Congratulation

The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure.

Congratulatory

Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.

Congregation

The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.

Congregational

Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.

Congregationalism

That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.

Congregationalist

One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism.

Congress

A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.

Congression

A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse.

Congressional

Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.

Congressman

A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.

Congreve

Short for Cogreve rocket, a powerful form of rocket formerly used in war, either in the field or for bombardment. In the former case it was armed with shell, shrapnel, or other missiles; in the latter, with an inextinguishable explosive material, inclosed in a metallic case. It was guided by a long wooden stick.

Congruence

Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.

Congruent

Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.

Congruity

The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.

Congruous

Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent.

Conhydrine

A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.

Conical Conic

Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.

Conico-

A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico-hemispherical; conico-subulate.

Conics

That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.

conidiophore

a specialized fungal hypha (a branch of the fungal mycelium) that produces conidia.

Conidium

A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores.

Conifer

A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.

Coniferin

A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.

Coniferophytina Coniferophyta

a class of cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous; most are substantial trees; it includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian) and Volztiales (of the Permian-Jurassic).

Coniferous

Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress. Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.

Conine

A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.

Conirostres

A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.

Conistra

Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater.

Conite

A magnesian variety of dolomite.

Conium

A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit (/seeds/) and decompound leaves.

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