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; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

to expose to suspicion. To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances. Motley.

nto a focus; to concentrate the attention. (He) concentrated whole force at his own camp. Motley.

ondensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley.

y of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed. Motley.

The practice of magic; enchantment. Motley.

as, a business connection; the Methodist connection. Men elevated by powerful connection. Motley. At the head of a strong parliamentary connection. Macaulay. Whose names, forces, connections, and characters were perfectly known to him. Macaulay. In this connection, in connection with this subject.

and consummate virtue." Addison. The little band held the post with consummate tenacity. Motley

n of the acts of Parliament. Macaulay. In contravention of all his marriage stipulations. Motley.

tributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. Motley.

mal. "Conventional decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness. Motley.

d arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might be assumed with effect. Motley.

Crimson. [Obs.] A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley.

l. Byron. One day shall crown the alliance. Shak. To crown the whole, came a proposition. Motley.

e after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.

ace culminated in the secondary era. Dana. The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating. Motley.

alse representation; artifice; cheat; fraud. There was of course room for vast deception. Motley.

mbellishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley.

rous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge. A decorous pretext the war. Motley. -- De*co"rous*ly, adv. -- De*co"rous*ness, n.