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The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere. Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array. -- Commission of bankrupty, a commission apointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative…

own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker.

The majority or bulk of mankind. [Obs.] Hooker.

union of saints. We are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others. Hooker. What communion hath light with darkness 2 Cor. vi. 14. Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. South.

nt there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old. Hooker.

t of comradeship; comradeship. [R.] "Certainly", said Dunham, with the comradery of the smoker. W. D. Howells.

shut up; to inclose. [Obs.] The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave. Hooker.

pact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. Milton.

th the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ Hooker. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. Sir P. Sidney.

Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.

line; as, the constitutions of Justinian. The positive constutions of our own churches. Hooker. A constitution of Valentinian addressed to Olybrius, then prefect of Rome, for the regulation of the conduct of advocates. George Long. Apostolic constitutions. See under Apostolic.

Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.

By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker.

and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his. Hooker.

To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist. [Obs.] No truth can contradict another truth. Hooker. A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents. Shak.

A contrite person. Hooker.

To dispute; to controvert. [Obs.] "Controversed causes." Hooker.

Act of controverting; controversy. [Obs.] Hooker.

ll convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find. Hooker.

A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book. [U.S.] "Just How": a key to the cookbooks. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.