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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.

Conditioned

Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man.

conditioned response

a behavioral response to a stimulus that has been acquired by experience or conditioning.

conditioner

exercise that conditions the body; as, farmwork can be a good conditioner.

conditioning

a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment. See conditioned response.

Conditory

A repository for holding things; a hinding place.

condo

one of the units in a condominium.

Condolence

Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.

Condor

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

Condorcet

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]

Condottiere

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

Conduce

To conduct; to lead; to guide.

Conducibility

The state or quality of being conducible; conducibleness.

Conducive

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

Conduct

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

Conductance

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

Conductibility

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

Conductive

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

Conductivity

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

Conductor

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

Conduit

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

Conduplicate

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

Condurrite

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

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.

Condyloid

Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.

Cone

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

Cone-in-cone

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.

cone-nose conenose

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.

Coneflower

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.

conessi

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

Confab

Familiar talk or conversation.

Confabulate

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

Confabulation

Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.

Confabulatory

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

Confalon

One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents.

Confarreation

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.

Confated

Fated or decreed with something else.

Confectionery

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

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