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17,110 words match “CON”

CONCURRENTLY adv.
With concurrence; unitedly.
CONCURRENTNESS n.
The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.
CONCURRING a.
Agreeing. Concurring figure (Geom.), one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which correspondends with another in all its parts.
CONCUSS v. 2 definitions
To shake or agitate. "Concussed with uncertainty." Daniel.
CONCUSSATION n.
A violent shock or agitation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
CONCUSSION n. 3 definitions
inging of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air. Bacon.
CONCUSSIVE a.
Having the power or quality of shaking or agitating. Johnson.
COND v.
To con, as a ship.
CONDEMN v. 6 definitions
To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. Wilt thou condemn him that is most just Job xxxiv. 17.
CONDEMNABLE a.
Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.
CONDEMNATION n. 4 definitions
The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley.
CONDEMNATORY a.
Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.
CONDEMNED a. 2 definitions
ng, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
CONDEMNER n.
One who condemns or censures.
CONDENSABILITY n.
Capability of being condensed.
CONDENSABLE a.
Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable.
CONDENSATE a. 2 definitions
Made dense; condensed. Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham.
CONDENSATION n. 3 definitions
The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.
CONDENSATIVE a.
Having the property of condensing.
CONDENSE v. 6 definitions
To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. Milton. The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, proc…
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