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caulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.

e the world's fashions. Sir W. Scott. But to converse with heaven -This is not easy. Wordsworth.

costumes of state. Cordon bleu (kd" bl Etym: [F., blue cordon], a first-rate cook, or one worthy to be the cook of the cordons bleus, or Knights of the Holy Ghost, famous for their good dinners. -- Cordon sanitaire (kd" s Etym: [F., sanitary cordon], a line of troops or military posts around a district infected with d…

Materialism. Cudworth.

Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." Holdsworth.

To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. Matt. vi. 19.

Worship paid to the world. Cudworth.

f the world independently of God; world-forming. "Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms." Gudworth.

A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles. Whitworth.

and the general course of the action. Shak. By perseverance in the course prescribed. Wodsworth. You hold your course without remorse. Tennyson.

Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook. Wordsworth. Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley. Bacon.

laborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.

To make like a creature; to degrade [Obs.] Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul. Cudworth.

Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier…

The quality or state of being credible; worthness of belief; credibility. [R.] Boyle.

Worthy of belief. [Obs.] Divers creditable witnesses deposed. Ludlow.

n. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. Wordsworth.

he fatal entrance of Duncan. Shak. Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. Wordsworth.

eld, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.

To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe. "A crouching purpose." Wordsworth. Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak.