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COENESTHESIS n.
Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.
COENOBITE n.
See Cenobite.
COENOECIUM n.
The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.
COENOGAMY n.
The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies. [Written also cenogamy.]
COENOSARC n.
The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.
COENURUS n.
The larval stage of a tapeworm (Tænia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.
COEQUAL a. 2 definitions
who is on an equality with another. In once he come to be a cardinal, He'll make his cap coequal with the crown. Shak.
COEQUALITY n.
The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.
COEQUALLY adv.
With coequality.
COERCE v. 3 definitions
by law or authority; to repress; to curb. Burke. Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort. Ayliffe.
COERCIBLE a.
Capable of being coerced. -- Co*er"ci*ble*ness, n.
COERCION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of coercing.
COERCITIVE a.
Coercive. "Coercitive power in laws." Jer. Taylor.
COERCIVE a.
Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain. -- Co*er"cive*ly, adv. -- Co*er"cive*ness, n. Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice. Bp. Warburton. Coercive or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism…
COERULIGNONE n.
A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret.
COESSENTIAL a.
Partaking of the same essence. -- Co`es*sen"tial*ly, adv. We bless and magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son]. Hooker.
COESSENTIALITY n.
Participation of the same essence. Johnson.
COESTABLISHMENT n.
Joint establishment. Bp. Watson.
COESTATE n.
Joint estate. Smolett.
COETANEAN n.
A personcoetaneous with another; a contemporary. [R.] A . . . coetanean of the late earl of SouthamptoAubrey.
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