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grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.

enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves. Bacon. This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England. Palfrey.

, 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.

Giving occasion for confidence. [R.] The cause was more confident than the event was prosperious. Jer. Taylor.

e Senate confirms a treaty. That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed. Swift.

Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea. Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou, or the "well worked", a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term "English breakfast tea." S. W. Williams.

A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.

noting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition. Blackstone.

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on. I will consider thy testimonies. Ps. cxix. 95. Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considered all things visible. Milton.

A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

ined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.

constructs. Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance. Sir M. Hale

e aggregate of mental qualities; temperament. He defended himself with . . . less passion than was expected from his constitution. Clarendon.

Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others.

der; as, to consult one's wishes. We are . . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. L'Estrange.

ss that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent.

A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell.

ll created beings. Dryden. He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Sir H. Wotton.