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imply rather an augmentation of the power of bearing, than a diminution of the burden." Johnson.

is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26.

arge; a precept; a mandate. A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another. John xiii. 34.

at a time; a lessening; a wearing away. Natural and necessary comminution of our lives. Johnson.

The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.

the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson.

To have a joint right with others in common ground. Johnson.

ng business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb. 4, 1887 (24 Stat. 379), and in 145 U. S. 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being "obviously within the commuting principle."…

The act of compressing, or state of being compressed. "Compression of thought." Johnson.

A private meeting; a close or secret assembly. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.

To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles. There are in our inferior world divers bodies that are concreted out of others. Sir M. Hale.

A mass formed by concretion. [Obs.] Johnson.

The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

Concubinage. [Obs.] Johnson.

A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.

Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious. Johnson.

Relating to concupiscence. [Obs.] Johnson.

Having the power or quality of shaking or agitating. Johnson.

come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19.

ower; -- the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm.