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A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation. Commorancy consists in usually lying there. Blackstone.

Shak. Evil company doth corrupt good manners. 1 Cor. xv. 33. (Rev. Ver. ). Brethren, farewell: your company along I will not wish. Milton.

s compared with another thing or state. The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold. Whewell. The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that incloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top. Bentley.

ood nature; kindness; civility; affability. Complacency, and truth, and manly sweetness, Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts. Addison. With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust. Pope.

r murmuring. The poverty of the clergy in England hath been the complaint of all who wish well to the church. Swift.

heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex. Whewell. Complex fraction. See Fraction. -- Complex number (Math.), in the theory of numbers, an expression of the form a + bsq. root-1, when a and b are ordinary integers.

Complimentary. [R.] Boswell.

A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.

Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.] I knew them well, and marked their rude comport. Dryden.

pose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture. Let me compose Something in verse as well as prose. Pope. The genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper". B. R. Haydon.

them in composition with other things. I. Watts. The elementary composition of bodies. Whewell.

ispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

ip; comradeship. [R.] "Certainly", said Dunham, with the comradery of the smoker. W. D. Howells.

A secret; out of the way knowledge. [Obs.] Well read in strange concealments. Shak.

ract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies. Whewell.

; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses. [Obs.] Howell.

Concubinary. The married and concubinarian, as well as looser clergy. Milman.

rrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak.

reased 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.