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The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color. Thynne.

Union, as in one body or mass; unity. Jer. Taylor. The coadunation of all the civilized provinces. Coleridge.

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor.

A cognomen or surname. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Defilement. [Obs.]

t or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making new compounds by new combinations. Boyle. A solemn combination shall be made Of our dear souls. Shak.

A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance. With terrible comminations to all them that did resist. I. Taylor.

Union of parts; structure. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. Of conation, in other words, of desire and will. J. S. Mill.

linked together; a chain, a succession. The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

A joint accusation.

or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley.

The act of condoning or pardoning.

gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union. Conglutination of parts separated by a wound. Arbuthnot.

Connection by birth; natural union. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A patching together; patchwork. [Obs.] Bailey.

ng or committing to another person, place, or state. [Obs.] So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. Jer. Taylor.

terror, combined with amaxement; dismay. The chiefs around, In silence wrapped, in onsternation downed. Attend the stern reply. Pope.

The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric. Burke.