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to consummate; completing. "The final, the consummative procedure of philosophy." Sir W. Hamilton.

remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions. A. Hamilton. If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war. Kent.

ed to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative. Fixed and contemplative their looks. Denham.

The state of being despised; disgrace; shame. Contempt and begarry hangs upon thy back. Shaks.

empt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews. Atterbury.

erized by contention. Spenser. More cheerfull; though not less contentious, regions. Brougham.

it or woven together; close; firm. [Obs.] The coats, without, are context and callous. Derham.

ues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence. "Indulgent continuers in sin." Hammond. I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer. Shak.

rted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

An outer wall. [Obs.] Chambers.

is another very, efficacious method for subding the most obstinate, contumacious sinner. Hammond.

Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.] Dr. H. More. -- Con`tu*me"li*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`tu*me"li*ous*ness, n.

nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecution. Hammond. A sort of men who . . . attend its [the curch of England's] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon. Swift.

a stipulation for national ignominy; a truce without a suspension of hostilities. Ld. Chatham. The convention with the State of georgia has been ratified by their Legislature. T. Jefferson.

tley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

Capable of being converted or reversed. Hammond.

Ready to converse; social. [Archaic] Feltham.

To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master. [Obs.] His two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak.

festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham.

To become less hot; to lose heat. I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. Shak.