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Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. Sir W. Hamilton. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ly, adv. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ness, n.

thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.

The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation. "Fixed in cogitation deep." Milton.

Any band or body of warriors. With him the cohort bright Of watchful cherubim. Milton.

To inhere or exist together, as in one substance. Sir W. Hamilton.

aving a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis." Milton.

Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. Milton.

Partnership in office. Milton.

hus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.

e circled; four times crossed the car of night From pole to pole, traversing each colure. Milton.

le or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.

One who engages in combat. "The mighty combatants." Milton. A controversy which long survived the original combatants. Macaulay

s to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind. Dr. H. More. And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage. Shak. Earthly sounds, though sweet and well combined. Cowper.

not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. [Obs.] Planets that are oft combust. Milton.

A writer of comedy. Milton.

ns in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.

Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.

To have a view, as from a superior position. Far and wide his eye commands. Milton.

To hold intercourse; to commune. Milton. Commercing with himself. Tennyson. Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. Prof. Wilson.

To confound. [An obsolete Latinism.] Committing short and long [quantities]. Milton. To commit a bill (Legislation), to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported. -- To commit to memory, or To commit, to learn by heart; to memorize.