One who lives in concubinage.
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Concubinage.
A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.
To tread or trample under foot.
Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion.
Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious.
Relating to concupiscence.
Concupiscent.
Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires.
The state of being concupiscible.
Concupiscence. [Used only in /Troilus and Cressida/]
To run together; to meet.
The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination.
Concurrence.
One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
With concurrence; unitedly.
The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.
Agreeing.
To shake or agitate.
A violent shock or agitation.
A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies.
Having the power or quality of shaking or agitating.
To con, as a ship.
To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.
Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
One who condemns or censures.
Capability of being condensed.
Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable.
To condense.
The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
Having the property of condensing.
Condensed; compact; dense.
representing two or more ideas or emotions by a single symbol; as, a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas.
One who, or that which, condenses.
Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.
One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.
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.
Condescension.
exhibiting an attitude of superiority; patronizing; -- used of behavior or attitude.
In a condescending manner.
The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.
An act of condescension.
Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.
Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence.
According to merit.
Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.
Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning.
A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
To pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc.
To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
A limitation.
The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively.
To qualify by conditions; to regulate.
Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man.
an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
a behavioral response to a stimulus that has been acquired by experience or conditioning.
exercise that conditions the body; as, farmwork can be a good conditioner.
a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment. See conditioned response.
Conditionally.
A repository for holding things; a hinding place.
one of the units in a condominium.
To concur; to agree.
Expressing condolence.
To lament or grieve over.
Condolence.
Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.
One who condoles.
one of the units in a condominium{2}.
The act of condoning or pardoning.
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.
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