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Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.

A person or thing that cements.

Of the nature of cement. [R.] Forsyth.

Of or pertaining to a cemetery. "Cemeterial cells." [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

ne; punishment. Shall I so much dishonor my fair stars, On equal terms to give him chastesement! Shak. I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more. Job xxxiv. 31.

Clemency. [Obs.] Spenser.

rgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy. Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects. Stowe. They had applied for the royal clemency. Macaulay.

Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate. Shak. -- Clem"ent*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St.Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

se; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history."

Compilation. [R.]

required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole. History is the complement of poetry. Sir J. Stephen.

Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing. "Complemental ceremony." Prynne.

Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Complementary colors. See under Color. -- Complementary angles (Math.), two angles whose sum is 90°.

Act of completing or perfecting; completion. [Obs.] Dryden.

together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [Obs.] The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale

Condolence. "A pitiful condolement." Milton.

t of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison.