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That which is complex; intricacy; complication. Many-corridored complexities Of Arthur's palace. Tennyson.

of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.

What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts.

ving elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

A celebrated prison, attached to the Palais de Justice in Paris.

An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. Macaulay.

other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley.

ment, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, 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 accompli…

ethod of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham.

A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.

s. Bacon. This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England. Palfrey.

ds of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc. This ordinance is called confirmation, because they who duly receive it are confirmed or strengthened for the fulfillment of their Christian duties, by the grace therein bestowed upon them. Hook.…

A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter. [Obs.] Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there;congress in the field great Jove withstands. Dryden.

Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater.

f the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus. -- Conjugate point (Geom.), an acnode. See Acnode, and Double point. -- Self-conjugate triangle (Conic Sections),…

ded . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.

ates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley.

To summon judicially to meet or appear. By the papal canon law, clerks . . . can not be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge. Ayliffe.

le by summons. There remained no resource but the dreadful one of convoking a parliament. palfrey.