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A reckoning together. [R.] Porson.

To bring into a square. [R.] Ash.

Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.

Consecrator.

The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. South.

One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. [Written also consecrater.]

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

Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other. Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. The wisest and most considerate men in the world…

or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention. Let us think with consideration. Sir P. Sidney. Consideration, like an angel, came. Shak.

Considerate; careful; thoughtful. [Archaic] I love to be considerative. B. Jonson.

One who considers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

or some end or purpose; conspiracy. [R.] As soon as it was day, certain Jews made a conspiration. Udall. In our natural body every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter. 2 Sam. xv. 31.

To ravish; to debauch. Burton.

The act of ravishing; violation; defilement. Bp. Hall.

To temper; to moderate. [Obs.] Moisten and contemperate the air. Sir T. Browne.

The act of tempering or moderating. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. [Obs.] The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.

us union. [Obs.] That person of his [George Herbert], which afforded so unusual a contesseration of elegancies. Oley.

ing cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it. [R.] Contrate wheel. See Crown wheel.