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Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.

Capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned. Not easily computable by arithmetic. Sir M. Hale.

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon.

To determine calculation; to reckon; to count. Two days, as we compute the days of heaven. Milton. What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. Burns.

One who computes.

A computer.

A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces.

That may be confuted.

One who undertakes to confute. Milton.

The act or process of confuting; refutation. "For the edification of some and the confutation of others." Bp. Horne.

Adapted or designed to confute. Bp. Warburton

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

Confutation. [Obs.] Milton.

One who confutes or disproves.

A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.

Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.

To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together. Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days. Boyle.

A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union. Conglutination of parts separated by a wound. Arbuthnot.

Conglutinant.

Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. [Obs.] Crabb.