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A schoolfellow; a fellow-student. [R.]

e; as, to confirm a rumor. Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale. Pope. These likelihoods confirm her flight. Shak.

d for the fulfillment of their Christian duties, by the grace therein bestowed upon them. Hook.

A society or body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.

ompact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. Milton.

ystem of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.

doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ Hooker. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. Sir P. Sidney.

ngs, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute "whiteness." J. S. Mill.

t conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.

Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.

n bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook.

f alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess stood. Sir W. Scott.

ipline; as, the constitutions of Justinian. The positive constutions of our own churches. Hooker. A constitution of Valentinian addressed to Olybrius, then prefect of Rome, for the regulation of the conduct of advocates. George Long. Apostolic constitutions. See under Apostolic.

Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.

By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker.

t of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. Milman - Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.

m and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his. Hooker.

To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist. [Obs.] No truth can contradict another truth. Hooker. A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents. Shak.

ropositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other. If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false. I. Wa…

A contrite person. Hooker.