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oles or comforts the spirit. Against such cruelties With inward consolations recompensed. Milton. Are the consolations of God small with thee Job xv. 11.

That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation. [R.] Milton.

One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband. Milton. He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. Dryden. The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. Thakeray. The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his…

attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess stood. Sir W. Scott.

other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton.

In the manner of a conspirator; by conspiracy. Milton.

Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining. Sir W. Hamilton.

s on some matter, with a view to a decision. Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended. Milton.

o consummate; completing. "The final, the consummative procedure of philosophy." Sir W. Hamilton.

n lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores contain bring forth. Milton.

spicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden.

to meditate on; to study. To love, at least contemplate and admire, What I see excellent. Milton. We thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate. Byron.

tation; musing; study. In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God. Milton. Contemplation is keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time actually in view. Locke.

Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke.

The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon.

connection with; to abide; to stay. Here to continue, and build up here A growing empire. Milton. They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. Matt. xv. 32.

ed. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

ch, is inconsistent. can be make deathless death That were to make Strange contradiction. Milton. We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it. Burke. Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true. Hobbes. Of contradictions infinite the slave. Wordsworth. Prin…

Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. [R.] Milton.