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enies or opposes another; contrariety. It is common with princes to will contradictories. Bacon.

To make sorrowful. [Obs.] Bacon.

To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon.

ce in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. Bacon.

e state of being changed; transmutation; change. Artificial conversion of water into ice. Bacon. The conversion of the aliment into fat. Arbuthnot.

.] God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. Bacon.

nd; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Not holpen by the coöperation of angels. Bacon.

Cupel dust. [Obs.] Powder of steel, or copple dust. Bacon.

Joined; associated; coupled. [Obs.] Bacon.

A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.] He was in a core of people. Bacon.

A body or code of laws. [Obs.] The whole corps of the law. Bacon.

means of letters. Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. Macualay.

Strengthening; supporting; corroborating. Bacon. -- n.

Corroborated. [Obs.] Bacon.

To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. Bacon.

n is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". Bacon.

t is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls. Bacon.

The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.

Capable of being countermanded; revocable. Bacon.

e second nobles are a counterpoise to the higher nobility, that they grow not too potent. Bacon.