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In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.

. All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or proportion of one thing to another. South.

petrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South.

One who commits; one who does or perpetrates. South.

arkness 2 Cor. vi. 14. Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. South.

] So great is the commutation that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves. South.

of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pinting in a northerly and southerly direction. He that firat discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses. Locke.

never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South.

lfillment; accomplishment; realization. Predictions receiving their completion in Christ. South.

ends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel. South. Complex of lines (Geom.), all the possible straight lines in space being considered, the entire system of lines which satisfy a single relation constitute a complex; as, all the lines which meet a given curve make up a comp…

l, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

iting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so. South. One of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer. Shak.

Important. [Archaic] So great and so concerning truth. South.

A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction. South.

nto St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. South.

ncomitant to greatness. Addison. The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardheartedness. South.

ols reduce all the passions to these two heads, the concupiscible and irascible appetite. South.

of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matt. xii. 42.

A large hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.

Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.