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Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Acts x. 15.

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet. Shak.

Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.] He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. Knolles.

Fancifully; whimsically.

That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair. The private concerns of fanilies. Addison.

elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

ing in one place. Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade. Prescott.

mprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison.

Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful. And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me. Shak. A slight expense of conjectural analogy. Hugh Miller. Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural. Carlyle.

ave corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

To unite; to connect. [Obs.] the use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother. Sir T. browne.

A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully. [Colloq. or Dial.] -- Con*trap"tious (#), a.

A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips.

sembling, a conventicle. [Obs.] Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.

One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Médard.

derately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. Fanned with cool winds. Milton.

eant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncomissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels. Corporal's guard, a detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal for guard duty, etc.; hence, derisively, a very small number of persons. -- Lance corporal, an assistant corporal o…

A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep. Dunglison.

A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.