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The quality of being chuffy.

A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.

To purify spiritually.

To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side.

To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation. The imperfections which you have cited. Shak.

To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.

To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse. To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] De Quincey.

To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.

To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.

A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

A term at omber, signifying that the game is won. Pope.

Partaking of the same essence. -- Co`es*sen"tial*ly, adv. We bless and magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son]. Hooker.

we both day and night, revolving in our minds, did cogitate nothing more than how to satisfy the parts of a good pastor. Foxe.

fell into disuse, and . . . the title page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book. De Morgan. The book was uninjured from title page to colophon. Sir W. Scott.

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m, p, and sometimes f, and by assimilation becomes col- before l, cor- before r, and con- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r, and w. Before a vowel com- becomes co-; also before…

To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. [Obs.] Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker.

the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy. Bacon.