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Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

Relating to a comet.

The department of astronomy relating to comets.

Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy. I can not for the stage a drama lay, Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play. B. Jonson.

Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay.

Relating to the comitia, or popular assembles of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws. Middleton.

Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission. [R.]

To confound. [An obsolete Latinism.] Committing short and long [quantities]. Milton. To commit a bill (Legislation), to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported. -- To commit to memory, or To commit, to learn by heart; to memorize.

Belonging or relating equally, or similary, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. Sir M. Hale.

To gather or unite in a crowd or company. [A Latinism] "In one troop compelled." Dryden.

The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc.

Relating to compromise. [R.] Chalmers.

A calculating machine; an arithmometer.

Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. "Their compurgatorial oath." Milman.

conclusion may be drawn. [Obs.] We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating. Bacon.

Relating to concubinage; living in concubinage.

Relating to concupiscence. [Obs.] Johnson.

Relating to conference. [R.] Clarke.

One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend. You love me for no other end Than to become my confidant and friend; As such I keep no secret from your sight. Dryden.

Of, or relating to, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and teacher. -- n.