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Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.

Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion

The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

Intimate; familiar; confidential. League with you I seek And mutual amity, so strait, so close, That I with you must dwell, or you with me. Milton.

A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.

The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.

Hair arranged to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor.

under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. -- Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.

as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern. Known by the name of uniformity; Where pyramids to pyramids relate And the whole fabric doth configurate. Jordan.

With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.

Conformity. [R.] Marston.

The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutinal; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.

To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect. The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor. Strype.

Living or acting in conformity with one's belief or professions. It was utterly to be at once a consistent Quaker and a conspirator. Macaulay.

rent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.

The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.