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To dispute; to controvert. [Obs.] "Controversed causes." Hooker.

Act of controverting; controversy. [Obs.] Hooker.

Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. [Obs.] Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.

Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.

will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find. Hooker.

a commotion. Those two massy pillars, With horrible convulsion, to and fro He tugged, he shook, till down they came. Milton. Times of violence and convulsion. Ames.

To choose or elect in concert with another. [R.] Each of the hundred was to coöpt three others. Jowett (Thysyd. ).

To choose; to elect; to coöpt. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of choosing; selection; choice. [Obs.] The first election and coöptation of a friend. Howell.

The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronæ or garlands. Hooper.

The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet.

A cushionlike band of vascular tissue at the upper border of the wall of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. It takes an important part in the secretion of the horny walls.

The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin. James White.

n accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. I will be correspondent to command. Shak.

ich has the power of fretting or irritating. Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives. Hooker. -- Cor*ro"sive*ly, adv. -- Cor*ro"sive*ness, n.

Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18.

To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. [Obs.] It cottons well; it can not choose but bear A pretty nap. Family of Love.

A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire. Knight.

e. They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used. Hooker.

to alter anuthing, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him. Hooker.