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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.

Confectory

Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats.

Confederacy

With the, the Confederate States of America.

Confederate

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

Confederation

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

Confer

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

Conferee

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

Conference

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

conferment

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

conferral

the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift.

Conferruminated Conferruminate

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

Conferva

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

Confervous

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

Confess

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

Confession

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

Confessionalism

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

Confessionary

Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany.

Confessor

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.

Confessorship

The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith.

Confetti

Bonbons; sweetmeats; confections.

Confidante Confidant

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

Confide

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

Confidence

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

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