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disposition to yield to others; complaisance. A man of few words and of great compliance. Clarendon.

the year. Shak. They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower. Clarendon. Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. R. Carew. Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Hudibras.

ience. He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction. Clarendon.

of; to withhold knowledge of. It is the glory of God to conceal a thing. Prov. xxv. 2. Declare ye among the nations, . . . publish and conceal not. Jer. 1. 2. He which finds him shall deserve our thanks, . . . He that conceals him, death. Shak.

on of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. Clarendon.

ess of conciliating; the state of being conciliated. The house has gone further; it has declared conciliation admissible previous to any submission on the part of America. Burke.

To agree; to act together. [Obs.] Clarendon.

To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matt. xii. 42.

may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. Bp. Warburton.

To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God. One day in the week is . . . consecrated to a holy rest. Sharp.

on be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. South.

s of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms. Clarendon. The conservator of the estate of an idiot. Bouvier. Conservators of the River Thames, a board of comissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames.

ent. He defended himself with . . . less passion than was expected from his constitution. Clarendon.

bs.] Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. Clarendon.

overt. To contest an election. (Polit.) (a) To strive to be elected. (b) To dispute the declared result of an election.

on. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon.

To declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.] The law severly contrabands Our taking business of men's hands. Hudibras.

ing's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange. Macaulay.

he conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon.

from its being accompanied by a cornet player. [Obs.] "A body of five cornets of horse." Clarendon.