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or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. Of conation, in other words, of desire and will. J. S. Mill.

Of or pertaining to conation. This division of mind into the three great classes of the cognitive faculties, the feelings, . . . and the exertive or conative powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant. Sir W. Hamilton.

A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

series or chain, as things depending on one another. This all things friendly will concatenate. Dr. H. More

linked together; a chain, a succession. The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear. [Obs.] Holland.

To preach. [Obs.] Lithgow.

An haranguer of the people; a preacher.

Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses. [Obs.] Howell.

A joint accusation.

Concubinage. [Obs.] Johnson.

or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley.

Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.

Conditional. [Obs.] Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.

The act of condoning or pardoning.

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

; to cause to adhere or to grow together. Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days. Boyle.

gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union. Conglutination of parts separated by a wound. Arbuthnot.

Conglutinant.

Congenital; existing from birth. "Connate notions." South. A difference has been made by some; those diseases or conditions which are dependent on original conformation being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate. Dunglison.…