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To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car. [U. S.]

To grant as a possession; to bestow. The public marks of honor and reward Conferred upon me. Milton.

- General confession, the confession of sins made by a number of persons in common, as in public prayer. -- Westminster Confession. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.

Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.

The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. The confiscations following a subdued rebellion. Hallam.

A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

he collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.

A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Agreement; accord; consent. That traditional consensus of society which we call public opinion. Tylor.

A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3].

An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.

A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.

ody; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic. Consolidating numbers into unity. Wordsworth.

ound. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom,…

An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to exeute the warrants of judicial offiers. Bouvier.

One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.

ds that which is esteement mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn. Criminal contempt of public feeling. Macaulay. Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great. Addison.

To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. Locke. The Parliament of Scotland now convened. Sir R. Baker. Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene. Thomson.

eboites] would have converted. Latimer. A red dust which converth into worms. Sandys. The public hope And eye to thee converting. Thomson.