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Like, or related to, the confervae. Loudon.

, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt. And there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg. Milton. I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned. Addison.

Permissible; done lawfully; as, entry congeable.

s instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet. He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. Macaulay.

solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure. I conjure you, let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. Addison.

fund. -- Court of Conscience, a court established for 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 f…

Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission. Thou wert possessed of David's throne By free consent of all. Milton.

ies of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces. Clerk Maxwell.

he secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms. Clarendon. The conservator of the estate of an idiot. Bouvier. Conservators of the River Thames, a board of comissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames.

set apart. The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor. Dryden.

ng or establishing, as if signing; confirmation; ratuficator. A direct consignation of pardon. Jer. Taylor.

e defended himself with . . . less passion than was expected from his constitution. Clarendon.

anythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. Clarendon.

Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype.

iscussion of strife; a position taken or contended for. All men seem agreed what is to be done; the contention is how the subject is to be divided and defined. Bagehot. This was my original contention, and I still maintain that you should abide by your former decision. Jowett.

n question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. The people . . . contested not what was done. Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell.

ter years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon.

e as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the cotrabass tuba or bombardon.

reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.

veyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon.