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The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t.

A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity. The Jesui…

One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. [Obs.] Shak.

The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.

Debauched in character or practice; impure. Milton.

or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.

e works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bond (Law), in old practice, a bond to secure one who has given bond for another. -- Counter brace. See Counter brace, in Vocabulary. -- Counter deed (Law), a secret writing which destroys, invalidates, or alters, a public deed. -- Counter distin…

A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.

To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.] You have crafted fair. Shak.

One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy. It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.

ns of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne.

One who advocates the practice of cremation.

A Cretan practice; iying; a falsehood.

The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism. The elements ofcriticism depend on the two principles of Beauty and Truth, one of which i…

A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. [Cant, U.S.] By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul.

The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

-- To cross the cudgels, to forbear or give up the contest; -- a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended. -- To take up cudgels for, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).