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885 words match “RIDGE”

CONCENTER; CONCENTRE v.
a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
CONCENTRIC n.
ch has a common center with something else. Its pecular relations to its concentrics. Coleridge.
CONCEPTION n.
r objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all. Coleridge.
CONCILIATIVE a.
Conciliatory. Coleridge.
CONDENSE v.
ompact, 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, procrastination, and agai…
CONGREGATE v.
ngregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. Milton.
CONSEQUENCE n.
atal consequence unites us three. Milton. Link follows link by necessary consequence. Coleridge.
CONSONANT a.
o. Each one pretends that his opinion . . . is consonant to the words there used. Bp. Beveridge. That where much is given shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity. Dr. H. More.
CONTEMPLANT a.
Given to contemplation; meditative. [R.] Coleridge.
CONTINUE v.
To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length. A bridge of wond'rous length, From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb of this frall world. Milton.
CONTRARIANT a.
ntagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory. [R.] The struggles of contrariant factions. Coleridge.
CONVERGE v.
ne and approach nearer together; as, lines converge. The mountains converge into a single ridge. Jefferson.
COORDINATE n.
thority, or importance. It has neither coördinate nor analogon; it is absolutely one. Coleridge.
CORDILLERA n.
A mountain ridge or chain.
CORDUROY n.
A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.
CORPOREITY n.
illingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.
CORPUS n.
. -- Corpus striatum (str; pl. Corpora striata (-t. Etym: [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
CORRADIAL a.
Radiating to or from the same point. [R.] Coleridge.
CORRUGATE a. 2 definitions
Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
CORRUGATION n.
The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
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