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Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.

The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity (Physics), the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces differ in temperature by one degree. J. D. Everett. -- Thermo…

A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.

n official; the Senate confirms a treaty. That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed. Swift.

A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc. This ordinance is called confirmation, because they who duly receive it are confirmed or strengthened for the fulfillm…

The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state. [Obs.] So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. Jer. Taylor.

To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.

The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body. [Scot.]

cting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.

A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.

orderly persons are confined; a bridewell. -- Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.

treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone.

olutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.

t to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate. The committee of estates excepted against the credentials of the English commissioners. Whitelocke. Had they not shown undoubted credentials from the Divine Person who sent them on such a message. Addison.

Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions. It is submitted to the judgment of more critical ears to direct and determine what is graceful and what is not. Holder.

Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. "Curable diseases." Harvey. -- Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv.

arge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman.