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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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22,815 words match “ATE”

CONSIDERATE a. 2 definitions

p. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other. Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. The wisest and most considerate men in the world. Sharp.

CONSOCIATE n. 5 definitions

An associate; an accomplice. [Archaic] "Wicked consociates." Bp. Hall.

To console; to comfort. [Obs.] Shak.

CONSOLIDATE a. 5 definitions

Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. [R.] A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. Elyot.

CONSOLIDATED p. 2 definitions

Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified. The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [in 1715] consolidated. Rees. A mass of partially consolidated mud. Tyndall.

To pollute; to defile. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove. F. P. Cobbe.

CONSTELLATE v. 3 definitions

light. [R.] The several things which engage our affections . . . shine forth and constellate in God. Boule.

CONSTIPATE v. 3 definitions

ass; to press together or condense. [Obs.] Of cold the property is to condense and constipate. Bacon.

To ravish; to debauch. Burton.

CONSUBSTANTIATE v. 3 definitions

to regard as united, in one common substance or nature. [R.] His soul must be consubstantiated with reason. Jer. Taylor.

CONSULATE n. 3 definitions

The office of a consul. Addison.

CONSUMMATE a. 2 definitions

extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect. "A man of perfect and consummate virtue." Addison. The little band held the post with consummate tenacity. Motley

CONSUMMATELY adv.

In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.

CONTAMINATE v. 2 definitions

t by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.

CONTEMPERATE v.

To temper; to moderate. [Obs.] Moisten and contemperate the air. Sir T. Browne.

CONTEMPLATE v. 3 definitions

in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; 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.

CONTERMINATE a.

Having the same bounds; conterminous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Contiguous; touching. [Obs.] Holland.