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wife cohabit together, even after a voluntary separation has taken place between them. Bouvier.

certaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Bouvier.

a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. Bouvier. Abbott.

ely. Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.

A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.

e eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden. I must transla…

State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convience; roominess. Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson.

To vie; to assume a likeness or equality. Shall pack horses . . . compare with Cæsars Shak.

The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate. As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them. Macaulay. The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting poi…

red years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed. Sir J. Davies.

reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. Bouvier. Wharton.

ury. "Competent age." Grafton. "Competent statesmen." Palfrey. /"A competent witness." Bouvier.

The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment. View them in composition with other things. I. Watts. The elementary composition of bodies. Whewell.

Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view. A very comprehensive definition. Bentley. Large and comprehensive idea. Channing.

Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opions and viewa; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. All these discontens, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift.

ompact; covenant; treaty or league. [Obs.] The concord made between Henry and Roderick. Davies.

cular object. -- Concrete quantity, a physical object or a collection of such objects. Davies & Peck. -- Concrete science, a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws. -- Concrete sound or movement of the voice, one which slides continuously up or down, as dist…

personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton.

ation of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend. Blount. Tomlins. Bouvier. Wharton. Equation of condition. (Math.) See under Equation. -- On or Upon condition (that), used for if in introducing conditional sentences. "Upon condition thou wilt swear to pay him tribute . . . thou shalt be placed as…