Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 105

Configuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Configure

Configure (v. t.) To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.

Confinable (a.) Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited.

Confined (imp. & p. p.) of Confine

Confining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confine

Confine (v. t.) To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

Confine (v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.

Confine (n.) Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Confine (n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison.

Confineless (a.) Without limitation or end; boundless.

Confinement (n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

Confinement (n.) Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.

Confiner (n.) One who, or that which, limits or restrains.

Confiner (n.) One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor.

Confinity (n.) Community of limits; contiguity.

Confrmed (imp. & p. p.) of Confirm

Confirming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confirm

Confirm (v. t.) To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

Confirm (v. t.) To strengthen in judgment or purpose.

Confirm (v. t.) To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.

Confirm (v. t.) To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.

Confirm (v. t.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.

Confirmable (a.) That may be confirmed.

Confirmance (n.) Confirmation.

Confirmation (n.) The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.

Confirmation (n.) That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony.

Confirmation (n.) A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc.

Confirmation (n.) A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable.

Confirmative (a.) Tending to confirm or establish.

Confirmator (n.) One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer.

Confirmatory (a. .) Serving to confirm; corroborative.

Confirmatory (a. .) Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.

Confirmedly (adv.) With confirmation.

Confirmedness (n.) A fixed state.

Confirmee (n.) One to whom anything is confirmed.

Confirmer (n.) One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates.

Confirmingly (adv.) In a confirming manner.

Confiscable (a.) Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

Confiscate (a.) Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.

Confiscated (imp. & p. p.) of Confiscate

Confiscating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confiscate

Confiscate (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

Confiscation (n.) The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use.

Confiscator (n.) One who confiscates.

Confiscatory (a.) Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations.

Confit (n.) Same as Comfit.

Confitent (n.) One who confesses his sins and faults.

Confiteor (n.) A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

Confiture (n.) Composition; preparation, as of a drug, or confection; a sweetmeat.

Confixed (imp. & p. p.) of Confix

Confix (v. t.) To fix; to fasten.

Confixure (n.) Act of fastening.

Conflagrant (a.) Burning together in a common flame.

Conflagration (n.) A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

Conflated (imp. & p. p.) of Conflate

Conflating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conflate

Conflate (v. t.) To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

Conflation (n.) A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.

Conflict (v.) A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

Conflict (v.) A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.

Conflicted (imp. & p. p.) of Conflict

Conflicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conflict

Conflict (v. i.) To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.

Conflict (v. i.) To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.

Conflict (v. i.) To be in opposition; to be contradictory.

Conflicting (a.) Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing.

Conflictive (a.) Tending to conflict; conflicting.

Confluence (n.) The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

Confluence (n.) Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.

Confluent (a.) Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.

Confluent (a.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.

Confluent (a.) Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.

Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox.

Confluent (n.) A small steam which flows into a large one.

Confluent (n.) The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.

Conflux (n.) A flowing together; a meeting of currents.

Conflux (n.) A large assemblage; a passing multitude.

Confluxibility (n.) The tendency of fluids to run together.

Confluxible (a.) Inclined to flow or run together.

Confocal (a.) Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics.

Conform (a.) Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.

Conformed (imp. & p. p.) of Conform

Conforming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conform

Conform (v. t.) To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; -- usually with to or unto.

Conform (v. i.) To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; -- with to or with.

Conform (v. i.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.

Conformability (n.) The state of being conformable.

Conformability (n.) The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.

Conformable (a.) Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; -- usually followed by to.

Conformable (a.) Disposed to compliance or obedience; ready to follow direstions; submissive; compliant.

Conformable (a.) Parallel, or nearly so; -- said of strata in contact.

Conformableness (n.) The quality of being conformable; conformability.

Conformably (adv.) With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.

Conformance (n.) Conformity.

Conformate (a.) Having the same form.

Conformation (n.) The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

Conformation (n.) The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form; arrangement.

Conformer (n.) One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.

Conformist (n.) One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.

Conformities (pl. ) of Conformity

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