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red in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. Sir T. Elyot.

The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals. It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. South.

ing condensed. He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.

To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.

Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity.

ce or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.

A system of electric traction, esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current passes along a wire or rail laid in an underground conduit, from which the current is "picked up" by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive. Hence Conduit railway.

The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years. The Continental Congress, an assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of…

h a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States.

A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.

Having the power of electing or appointing. A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body. Junius.

To appoint, depute, or elect to an offie; to make and empower. Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine. Wordsworth. Constituted authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc. Bartlett.

a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. To contest an election. (Polit.) (a) To strive to be elected. (b) To dispute the declared result of an election.

ntinued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. he can hear its continuous murmur. Longfellow.

A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes. Liquids are generally heated by convection -- when heat is applied from bellow. Nichol.

Caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity. Faraday.

Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.

To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.

To choose or elect in concert with another. [R.] Each of the hundred was to coöpt three others. Jowett (Thysyd. ).

To choose; to elect; to coöpt. [Obs.] Cockeram.