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A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.

To unite in one luster or radiane, as stars. [R.] Whe know how to constellate these lights. Boyle.

ssemblage of splendors or excellences. The constellations of genius had already begun to show itself . . . which was to shed a glory over the meridian and close of Philip's reign. Prescott.

onstitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element. We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water. Tyndall.

To bring into a narrow compass; to compress. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay.

lude; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores contain bring forth. Milton.

Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness. Howell.

a kingdom. Graunt. Table of contents, or Contents, a table or list of topics in a book, showing their order and the place where they may be found: a summary.

osition taken or contended for. All men seem agreed what is to be done; the contention is how the subject is to be divided and defined. Bagehot. This was my original contention, and I still maintain that you should abide by your former decision. Jowett.

Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.

ase not. O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee. Ps. xxxvi. 10. You know how to make yourself happy by only continuing such a life as you have been long acustomed to lead. Pope.

Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency. How can these contrarieties agree Shak.

Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse. [Archaic] Milton. She flew contrarious in the face of God. Mrs. Browning.

oposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. Locke.

To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.

One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.

[Obs.] the very jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. Hakewill.

To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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

To show affection; to act in a loving way. See under Bill, v. i. "Billing or cooing." Byron.