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17,110 words match “CON”

CONDITIONED a. 2 definitions
Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak.
CONDITIONLY adv.
Conditionally. [Obs.]
CONDITORY n.
A repository for holding things; a hinding place.
CONDOG v.
To concur; to agree. [Burlesque]
CONDOLATORY a.
Expressing condolence. Smart.
CONDOLE v. 2 definitions
e in sympathy; -- followed by with. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.
CONDOLEMENT n. 2 definitions
Condolence. "A pitiful condolement." Milton.
CONDOLENCE n.
Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief. Their congratulations and their condolences. Steele. A special mission of condolence. Macaulay.
CONDOLER n.
One who condoles.
CONDONATION n. 2 definitions
The act of condoning or pardoning.
CONDONE v. 2 definitions
To pardon; to forgive. A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned. W. Black. It would have been magnanimous in the men then in power to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns. J. C. Shairp.
CONDOR n.
A very large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the Andes.
CONDOTTIERE n.
fteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.
CONDUCE v. 2 definitions
To lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute; -- usually followed by to or toward. He was sensible how much such a union would conduce to the happiness of both. Macaulay. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood. Shak.
CONDUCENT a.
Conducive; tending. Conducent to the good success of this business. Abp. Laud.
CONDUCIBILITY n.
The state or quality of being conducible; conducibleness. Bp. Wilkins.
CONDUCIBLE a.
Conducive; tending; contributing. Bacon. All his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley.
CONDUCIBLENESS n.
Quality of being conducible.
CONDUCIBLY adv.
In a manner to promote. [R.]
CONDUCIVE a.
Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote. However conducive to the good or our country. Addison.
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