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reason upon compulsion. Shak. With what complusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low. Milton.

o determine calculation; to reckon; to count. Two days, as we compute the days of heaven. Milton. What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. Burns.

. . . and the exertive or conative powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant. Sir W. Hamilton.

A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess. Up to the fiery concave towering hight. Milton.

k. [Obs.] Those whose . . . vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes. Milton.

harmony; as, a concent of notes. [Archaic.] Bacon. That undisturbed song of pure concent. Milton.

int, as two or more lines; to concentrate. In thee concentering all their precious beams. Milton. All is concentered in a life intense. Byren.

. A discrimination is only possible by a concentrative act, or act of attention. Sir W. Hamilton.

be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term. Sir W. Hamilton.

nterest. "Our everlasting concernments." I. Watts. To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton.

Capable of being conciliated or reconciled. Milton.

A state of agreement; harmony; union. Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. Milton.

To assent; to consent. [Obs.] Milton.

before the penalty. Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan. Gray. And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I c…

bridge; to epitomize. In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. Milton. The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley.

ebased 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.

e and thought are alleged to be impossible. To think of a thing is to condition. Sir W. Hamilton.

not absolute. Under these, thought is possible only in the conditioned interval. Sir W. Hamilton.

To lament or grieve over. [R.] I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance. Milton.

Condolence. "A pitiful condolement." Milton.