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COMPILATION n. 2 definitions
ent composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers. Macaulay.
COMPILATOR n.
Compiler. [Obs.]
CONDOLATORY a.
Expressing condolence. Smart.
CONFABULATE v.
iarly together; to chat; to prattle. I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Cowper.
CONFABULATION n.
Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.
CONFABULATORY a.
Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. Weever.
CONFLATE v.
To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.
CONFLATION n.
A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. [R.] Bacon.
CONGELATION n. 3 definitions
The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.
CONGLOBULATE v.
To gather into a small round mass.
CONGRATULATE v. 2 definitions
addressed; to wish joy to. It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion. Shak. To congratulate one's self, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self happy or fortunate.
CONGRATULATION n.
The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure. With infinite congratulations for our safe arrival. Dr. J. Scott.
CONGRATULATOR n.
One who offers congratulation. Milton.
CONGRATULATORY a.
Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.
CONSOLATE v.
To console; to comfort. [Obs.] Shak.
CONSOLATION n.
fort; that which consoles or comforts the spirit. Against such cruelties With inward consolations recompensed. Milton. Are the consolations of God small with thee Job xv. 11.
CONSOLATO DEL MARE n.
A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws. Kent. Bouvier.
CONSOLATOR n.
One who consoles or comforts. Johnson.
CONSOLATORY a. 2 definitions
f tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind. Burke.
CONSTABULATORY n.
A constabulary. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.
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