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g; as regards. I have accepted thee concerning this thing. Gen. xix. 21. The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. Num. x. 29.

A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

Made dense; condensed. Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham.

to an inferior. "Condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal servitude, that my mind ever Will condescend to such absurd commands Milton. Spain's mighty monarch, In gracious clemency, does condescend, On these conditions, to become your friend. Dryden.…

nfidence with you. Shak. Confidence game, any swindling operation in which advantage is taken of the confidence reposed by the victim in the swindler. -- Confidence man, a swindler. -- To take into one's confidence, to admit to a knowledge of one's feelings, purposes, or affairs.

The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. The confiscations following a subdued rebellion. Hallam.

Broken in pieces; severed. [Obs.]

Broken; uneven. [Obs.] "Confragose cataracts." Evelyn.

ng together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.

enacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together. Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days. Boyle.

The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.

Participation in a common nature or character. [R.] Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness. H. Spencer.

nubial tenderness. Some connubialities which had begun to pass between Mr. and Mrs. B. Dickens.

One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.

suit. Shak. 'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so. Shak. She wished she had taken a moment to consider, before rushing down stairs. W. Black

That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason. He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations, to search an asylum. Dryden. Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment. Macaulay.

century. It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws. Kent. Bouvier.

To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [R.]

nce is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.