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nt; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. "A competent knowledge of the world." Arrerbury. "Competent age." Grafton. "Competent statesmen." Palfrey. /"A competent witness." Bouvier.

; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves. Addison.

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet. Shak.

ceivable that it should be indeed that very person whose shape and voice it assumed. Atterbury. -- Con*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. -- Con*ceiv"a*bly, adv.

Consistency; accordance. [Obs.] In concent to his own principles. Atterbury.

a final judgment; to reach a decision. Can we conclude upon Luther's instability Bp. Atterbury. Conclude and be agreed. Shak.

In a condescending manner. Atterbury.

; mode of action; behavior. All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury. Macaulay. What in the conduct of our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone Dryden.

ruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. Atterbury.

d effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue and hapiness. Atterbury.

. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. Atterbury.

ries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. Atterbury.

sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews. Atterbury.

Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others. Atterbury.

A copier. [Obs.] "A copist after nature." Shaftesbury.

See Courage [Obs.] To Canterbury with full devout corage. Chaucer.

y with. After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macualay.

te's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice. Atterbury.

or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory. Shaftesbury.