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osition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory. In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. Addison. Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. Prescott.

A second conquest.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. -- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad, n. Sayce.

ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant (Polyergus rufescens), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest. It is quite correct to call Æthelstan "King of the Anglo-Saxons," but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense. E. A. Freeman.

ces in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519. -- n.

, a Batavian legion. Batavian Republic, the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795.

s original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek got it from the Phoenicians. The English name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French. Etymologically C is…

It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the great council till some ages after the Conquest. Hume.

A crusader. [Obs.] The conquesta of the croises extending over Palestine. Burke.

ewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing glory crowned. Milton.

The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.

, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. A brilliant career of discovery and conquest. Prescott. We speak of the "invention" of printing, the discovery of America. Trench.

e this do. You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't do; challenge the crown. Collier. To do by. See under By. -- To do for. (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit. (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is…

xpending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.

The act of taking by assault; conquest. [R.] Sandys.

appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. Winning by conquest what the first man lost, By fallacy surprised. Milton.

Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest. Milton.

By good fortune; fortunately; luckily. Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. Waller.

; malevolent. [Archaic or R.] And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden.