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lgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

ction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. That no compunctious vistings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Shak.

Positivism; the positive philosophy. See Positivism.

A disciple of Comte; a positivist.

Of or pertaining to conation. This division of mind into the three great classes of the cognitive faculties, the feelings, . . . and the exertive or conative powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant. Sir W. Hamilton.

To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope. It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life. Gibbon. Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Is. l…

m obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies. Whewell.

To plan; to devise; to arrange. A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the compaign. Burke.

A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction. South.

To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward.

The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination. Donne.

ant but the quickness or slowness of the return. Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. Tyndall.

A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain.

odify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary dispo…

; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.

bates. Congressional and official labor. E. Everett. Congressional District, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States.

habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the devil into. Shak. To conjure up, or make visible, as a spirit, by magic arts; hence, to invent; as, to conjure up a story; to conjure up alarms.

ulations high or deep I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considered all things visible. Milton.

Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; 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.