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rrespondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne

Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distingushed from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract. Hence:

o others. Tillotson. Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. Addison.

Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. Weever.

or comparison; to compare. [Obs.] If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion. Boyle.

mits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. To be confined, to be in childbed.

A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.

Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action. R. Owen.

Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.

r concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry. Blair. It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. Atterbury.

n. He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange.

Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. [R.] A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale.

To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt. [Obs.] Dr. J. Scott.

By the act of nature; originally; from birth. Sir M. Hale.

Participation of the same nature; natural union. I. Walton.

Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.

tive, party. Quart. Rev. (1830). Conservative system (Mech.), a material sustem of such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overco…

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory. "To hold consistory session." Strype.

Of a consoling or comforting nature. The punishment of tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind. Burke.