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ative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.

- (cum, signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.

etting a proportion of a farm for a single crop. [Ireland] Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle. Mozley & W.

The pineal gland.

r or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. Of conation, in other words, of desire and will. J. S. Mill.

Of or pertaining to conation. This division of mind into the three great classes of the cognitive faculties, the feelings, . . . and the exertive or conative powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant. Sir W. Hamilton.

A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

To arch over; to vault. Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone. Grew.

An arch or vault.

e in a series or chain, as things depending on one another. This all things friendly will concatenate. Dr. H. More

, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

A joint cause. Fotherby.

The act of making concave.

ace or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.

Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.

Hollowness; concavity.

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.

Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.

Concave. Abp. potter. -- Con*ca"vous*ly, adv.