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Permissible; done lawfully; as, entry congeable.

To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country. [R.] Swift. The subjects of England may congratulate to themselves. Dryden.

rdant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry. Blair. It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. Atterbury.

ane are sometimes, though not generally included. -- Conic sections, that branch of geometry which treats of the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. -- Conical pendulum. See Pendulum. -- Conical projection, a method of delineating the surface of a sphere upon a plane surface as if projected upon the surface of a cone;…

That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.

conquest he resigns his breath. Addison. Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. Prescott.

to protect. The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor. Strype.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory. "To hold consistory session." Strype.

The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country.

men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs. Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustom…

One who adheres to the constitution of the country. Bolingbroke.

An official comissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen. Consul general, a consul of the first rank, stationed in an important place, or having jurisdiction in several places or over several consula. -- Vice…

oraneous. This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype.

Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.

The entry of such adjuornment and the grounds thereof on the record.

. . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law. Strype.

An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country. These sums, . . . and the forced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. Motley.

ommanded him . . . to be thrust into the stocks for his manifest and manifold contumacy. Strype.

laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.