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; as, a complaisant gentleman. There are to whom my satire seems too bold: Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough. Pope.

oem; to complete a course of education. Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence. Milton. And, to complete her bliss, a fool for mate. Pope.

In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

A fossil or petrified conch or shell.

cardinals. It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. South.

The last part of anything; close; termination; end. A fluorish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest. Prescott.

The schools reduce all the passions to these two heads, the concupiscible and irascible appetite. South.

Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning. As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment. Bacon.

p. Conduct of armies is a prince's art. Waller. Attacked the Spaniards . . . with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct, that his forces were totally routed. Robertson.

Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.

r; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc.

onsonants. No Russian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore.

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter. The late battle had, in effect, been a contest between one usurper and another. Hallam. It was fully expected that the contest there would be long and fierce. Macaulay.

his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence. If they [the unmarried and widows] have not continency, let them marry. 1 Cor. vii. 9 (Rev. Ver. ). Chastity is either abstinence or continence: ab…

Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste. My past life Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true, As I am now unhappy. Shak.

Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewell; perpetuation; propagation. The brute immedistely regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. Addison.

Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute æstivation.

hand. Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing. 1 Pet. iii. 9.

A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.