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Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop. Burke. Commendatory prayer (Book of Common Prayer), a prayer read over the dying. "The commendatory prayer was said for him, and, as it ended, he [William III.] died." Bp. Burnet.

ral; public; as, propertis common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requereth. Hocker. The common enemy of man. Shak.

c breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset. The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night. Hammond.

To yield or make concession. I wished you to concede to America, at a time when she prayed concession at our feet. Burke.

Importance; moment; consequence. Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer. Jer. Taylor.

r conference. Specifically, a meeting conducted (usually) by laymen, for conference and prayer. [U. S.] -- Conference room, a room for conference and prayer, and for the pastor's less formal addresses. [U. S.]

confession, the confession of sins made by a number of persons in common, as in public prayer. -- Westminster Confession. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.

A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.

A game for two, played with 40 cards, in which each player tries to form three or four of a kind or sequences.

Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet.

consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. Sharp. A long consumptive war. Addison.

temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften. [Obs.] The antidotes . . . have allayed its bitterness and contempered its malignancy. Johnson.

Holy meditation. [Obs.] To live in prayer and contemplation. Shak.

A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards.

A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.

The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player. [Obs.] "A body of five cornets of horse." Clarendon.