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y (Alg.), a quantity composed of two or more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign + (plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c, and bb - b, are compound quantities. -- Compound radical. (Chem.) See Radical. -- Compound ratio (Math.), the product of two or more ratios; thus ab:cd is a ratio compounded of the si…

With great extent of signification; comprehensively. Tillotson.

The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.

- (cum, signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.

Design; pattern. [Obs.] Shak. In conceit with, in accord with; agreeing or conforming. -- Out of conceit with, not having a favorable opinion of; not pleased with; as, a man is out of conceit with his dress. -- To put [one] out conceit with, to make one indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.…

Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.] A conceited chair to sleep in. Evelyn.

neral and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies. Whewell.

Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opions and viewa; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. All these discontens, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift.

Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals. Concerted piece (Mus.), a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc.

A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term. The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety". J. S. Mill.

A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation. Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal concurrence of nobles and people. Swift.

by the conduct of Shrewsbury. Macaulay. What in the conduct of our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone Dryden.

A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).

A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.

Adapted or designed to confute. Bp. Warburton

Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words.

Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. [R.] Milton.

To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply. Hammond.

The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South.