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To conduct; to lead; to guide. [Obs.] He was sent to conduce hither the princess. Sir H. Wotton.

ch churches are. Conference meeting, a meeting for 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.]

gating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.

A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoöspores.

The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together. Johnson.

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

That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary. [R.] Milton.

Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions. Consequent points, Consequent poles (Magnetism), a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities.…

With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. The faculty of writing consequentially. Addison.

tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.

Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character. That consistency of behavior whereby he inflexibly…

t 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 not much accustomed to frame exact definitions. Macaulay.

Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others. His genius rendered his courage more contagious. Wirt. The spirit of imitation is contagious. Ames.

General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27.

A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.

one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water. There pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak.

society, a society established on the principle of a joint-stock association, for the production of commodities, or their purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending of capital among its members. -- Coöperative store, a store established by a coöperative society, where the members make…

A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.