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Having the power to comprehend or understand many things. "His comprehensive head." Pope.

To embrace sexually. [Obs.] Pope.

e to conceit alone their works confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line. Pope. Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature. Dryden.

To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.

over becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular assemblies content with small concessions. Swift.

dinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.

An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VIL and Bonaparte in

ck; caused by the collision of two bodies. It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air. Bacon.

they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith.

iscloses its cause; to prove; to attest. Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mold. Pope.

ify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor. Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale. Pope. These likelihoods confirm her flight. Shak.

(Arch.) An apophyge. Gwilt.

l District, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States.

er; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use it in a syllogism. Locke.

conquer'd, let men conquer us. Shak. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms. Pope.

n the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness. Pope.

Such is the world's great harmony that springs From union, order, full consent of things. Pope.

intrust. Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. Addison.

by with. This was a consisting story. Bp. Burnet. Health consists with temperance alone. Pope. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Milton.

ursues those measures which appear the most just. Addison. Consistency, thou art a jewel. Popular Saying.