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iseworthy. Order and decent ceremonies in the church are not only comely but commendable. Bacon. -- Com*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mend"a*bly, adv.

. . . epistles of commendatiom 2 Cor. iii. 1. By the commendation of the great officers. Bacon.

To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend. Bacon.

Pitiable. [Obs.] Bacon.

commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy. Bacon.

Held in common. "Forests . . . and other commonable places." Bacon.

le places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury. Bacon.

To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of making compact, or the state of being compact. [Obs.] Bacon.

Companionable; sociable. [Obs.] Bacon.

s to the winds; for that the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it. Bacon.

ends for. The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.

To compensate. [Obs.] Bacon.

re the person or thing competed with. Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. Bacon. A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competititon. Dryden. There is no competition but for the second place. Dryden. Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly. A. T. Hadley.…

wledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon.

omputing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon.

t; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise in his own conceit. Prov. xxvi. 12.

Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes. [Archaic.] Bacon. That undisturbed song of pure concent. Milton.

A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. [Obs.] Bacon.

; to close; to finish. I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state. Bacon.