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Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy. [R.] As soon as it was day, certain Jews made a conspiration. Udall. In our natural body every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter. 2 Sam. xv. 31.

act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together. They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him. Gen. xxxvii. 18. You have conspired against our royal person, Joined with an enemy proclaimed. Shak.

One who conspires; a conspirator.

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

A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation. [R.] Dr. H. More.

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

This act of defiling; defilement; pollution. Bp. Hall.

An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to exeute the warrants of judicial offiers. Bouvier.

The constabulary. [Obs.]

The office or functions of a constable.

The wife of a constable. [Obs.]

The district to which a constable's power is limited. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.

A constabulary. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from hange; stability; fixedness; immutabilitu; asm the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.

posed to fluid. [Obs.] If . . . you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body. Boyle.

A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.

With constancy; steadily; continually; perseveringly; without cessation; uniformly. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Acts. xii. 15.

A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.