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; registered. Conscript fathers (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the "fathers" the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti.

A succession or series of any kind. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton. Month of consecution (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another.

adical change; a preserver; a conserver. The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. Jer. Taylor.

or sympathetic regard or notice. Consideration for the poor is a doctrine of the church. Newman.

olidated. [R.] A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. Elyot.

Adapted to console or comfort; cheering; as, this is consoling news.

The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke.

r did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.

Self-restraint; self-command. He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers. Dryden.

Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewell; perpetuation; propagation. The brute immedistely regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. Addison.

, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. Each from each contract new strength and light. Pope. Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high statiSwift.

A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully. [Colloq. or Dial.] -- Con*trap"tious (#), a.

One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine.

iction; rubbing. [Obs.] The breaking of their parts into less parts by contrition. Sir I. Newton.

The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.

en . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Sir I. Newton.

To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton.

To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] "Shaken tubs . . . be new cooped." Holland.

piral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

f hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.