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The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t.

A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity. The Jesui…

d from one person to another. [He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon.

One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. [Obs.] Shak.

The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.

To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint. You are coquetting a maid of honor. Swift.

Attempts to attract admoration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love. "Little affectations of coquetry." Addison.

.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity. The knots that tangle human creeds, The wounding cords that bind and strain The heart until it bleeds. Tennyson.

Debauched in character or practice; impure. Milton.

Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. This is a defect in the first make of same men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards. T. Burnet.

utual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.

rks to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bond (Law), in old practice, a bond to secure one who has given bond for another. -- Counter brace. See Counter brace, in Vocabulary. -- Counter deed (Law), a secret writing which destroys, invalidates, or alters, a public deed. -- Counter distinctio…

eparated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire. Every county, every town, every family, was in agitation. Macaulay.

A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship. [Scot.]

To allure; to entice; to decoy. [Obs.] A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets. Bp. Rainbow.

The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.

To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.] You have crafted fair. Shak.