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Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.

In a compendious manner. Compendiously exressed by the word chaos. Bentley.

Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.

Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.

prising many things; having a wide scope or a full view. A very comprehensive definition. Bentley. Large and comprehensive idea. Channing.

t which his noble ancestors achieved with blows. Shak. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Burke. An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions. Hallam.…

Or to passion quickly heated. Swift. Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness. Bentley.

The beneficiary of a concession or grant.

Condensed; compact; dense. [R.] The huge condense bodies of planets. Bentley.

Merit, acguired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.

his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley.

To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.

table fibers, so that no mordant is required. Most of them are azo compounds derived from benzidine or tolidine. Called also benzidine dyes.

Same as Olibene.

ct of uniting or combining; union; assemblage. [Obs.] Mixtures and conjugations of atoms. Bentley.

Agreement; accord. Bentley.

To be allied, confederated, or associated; to coalescence. [R.] Bentley.

For the benefit or one's constitution or health; as, a constitutional walk. [Colloq.] Constitutional law, law that relates to the constitution, as a permanent system of political and juridical government, as distinguished from statutory and common law, which relate to matters subordinate to such constitution.…

or occurring at the same time; contemporary. The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. Milman - Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.

as, the current flows continually. Why do not all animals continually increase in bigness Bentley.