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Having a common beginning.

A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.

See Colitis.

A coarsely granular variety of garnet.

Advice; warning; instruction. [Obs.] Bailey.

Monitory. [Obs.] Only commemorative and commonitive. Bp. Hall.

Calling to mind; giving admonition. [Obs.] Foxe.

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irwing.

The relation of a godfather to a person. [Obs.] The relation of gossipred or compaternity by the cannon law is a spiritual affinity. Sir J. Da

adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

s, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.

Community of limits; contiguity. [R.] Bailey.

A society or body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.

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

In a congenital manner.

Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital. [Obs.] Many conclusions, of moral and intellectual truths, seem . . . to be congenite with us. Sir M. Hale.

A magnesian variety of dolomite.

The relation of person by blood, is distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. Prescott.

Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton.

A fossil coralline.