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present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank of peers. Blackstone.

r ordinary residence in a place; habitation. Commorancy consists in usually lying there. Blackstone.

inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone.

The act of sharing; community; participation. "This communion of goods." Blackstone.

wable in the spiritual courts for money agreed to be given as a commutation for penance. Blackstone.

e; -- as the parts which compose a body. Now the bright sun compacts the precious stone. Blackstone.

ives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.

n of the mind or will, and not, as in common speech, the carrying such design to effect. Blackstone.

Capable of being compelled or constrained. Blackstone.

That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compe…

To supply a lack; to supplement. [R.]

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate. "Complete perfections." Milton. Ye are complete in him. Col. ii. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.

not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam. Cleared by composition with their creditors. Blackstone.

or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shak. With what complusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low. Milton.

A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.

To pardon; to forgive. A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned. W. Black. It would have been magnanimous in the men then in power to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns. J. C. Shairp.

or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. To what will thy congested guilt amount Blackmore.

Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea. Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou, or the "well worked", a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term "English breakfast tea." S. W. Williams.

The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition. Blackstone.

or the recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts. [Eng.] Blackstone. -- In conscience, In all conscience, in deference or obedience to conscience or reason; in reason; reasonably. "This is enough in conscience." Howell. "Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should r…