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Communicated in confidence; secret. "Confidential messages." Burke. Confidential communication (Law) See Privileged communication, under Privileged. -- Confidential creditors, those whose claims are of such a character that they are entitled to be paid before other creditors. -- Confidential debts, debts incurred for…

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.

One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity. [Obs.] Addison.

To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs. Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were…

Custom, habit; usage. [R.] To observe this consuetude or law. Barnes .

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time.

The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. South.

General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality. There are thousands now Such women, but convention beats them down. Tennyson.

out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

tion or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.

ring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage.

of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.

cloth. Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.

A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

and opposite the sun, best seen during September and October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood. Called also Gegenschein.

, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.