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Comparison. [Archaic] His mighty champion, strong beyond compare. Milton. Their small galleys may not hold compare With our tall ships. Waller.

l: If not, to compass her I'll use my skill. Shak. How can you to compass your designs Denham.

That may be complained of. [R.] Feltham.

H. Wotton. -- Com`pli*men"tal*ly, adv. [Obs.] Boyle. -- Com`pli*men"tal*ness, n. [Obs.] Hammond.

of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night. Hammond.

A mixture; a compound. [R.] A sad compost of more bitter than sweet. Hammond.

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

s, . . . and the exertive or conative powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant. Sir W. Hamilton.

To divide into chambers or cells. Woodward.

A chamber of a multilocular shell. Glanvill.

on. A discrimination is only possible by a concentrative act, or act of attention. Sir W. Hamilton.

ot be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term. Sir W. Hamilton.

tertainment in which several voices or instruments take part. Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert. Shak. And boding screech owls make the concert full. Shak. Concert pitch. See under Pitch.

One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.

Demonstrable; determinable. [Obs.] Hammond.

ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father.

; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond. Mr. Burke concurred with Lord Chatham in opinion. Fox. Tories and Whigs had concurred in paying honor to Walker. Makaulay. This concurs directly with the letter. Shak.

Made dense; condensed. Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham.

dge and thought are alleged to be impossible. To think of a thing is to condition. Sir W. Hamilton.

; not absolute. Under these, thought is possible only in the conditioned interval. Sir W. Hamilton.