Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 110

Conquest (n.) The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.

Consanguineal (a.) Of the same blood; related by birth.

Consanguined (a.) Of kin blood; related.

Consanguineous (a.) Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

Consanguinity (n.) The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.

Consarcination (n.) A patching together; patchwork.

Conscience (n.) Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.

Conscience (n.) The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.

Conscience (n.) The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.

Conscience (n.) Tenderness of feeling; pity.

Conscienced (a.) Having a conscience.

Conscienceless (a.) Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous.

Conscient (a.) Conscious.

Conscientious (a.) Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person.

Conscientious (a.) Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.

Conscientiously (adv.) In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.

Conscientiousness (n.) The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.

Conscionable (a.) Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.

Conscionableness (n.) The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness.

Conscionably (adv.) Reasonably; justly.

Conscious (a.) Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

Conscious (a.) Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.

Conscious (a.) Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt.

Consciously (adv.) In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.

Consciousness (n.) The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.

Consciousness (n.) Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.

Consciousness (n.) Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence.

Conscribe (v. t.) To enroll; to enlist.

Conscript (a.) Enrolled; written; registered.

Conscript (n.) One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.

Conscript (v. t.) To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.

Conscription (n.) An enrolling or registering.

Conscription (n.) A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.

Conscription (a.) Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.

Consecrate (a.) Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Consecrated (imp. & p. p.) of Consecrate

Consecrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consecrate

Consecrate (v. t.) To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God.

Consecrate (v. t.) To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop.

Consecrate (v. t.) To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.

Consecrate (v. t.) To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.

Consecrater (n.) Consecrator.

Consecration (n.) The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

Consecrator (n.) One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.

Consecratory (a.) Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory.

Consectaneous (a.) Following as a matter of course.

Consectary (a.) Following by consequence; consequent; deducible.

Consectary (n.) That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary.

Consecute (v. t.) To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue.

Consecution (n.) A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.

Consecution (n.) A succession or series of any kind.

Consecutive (a.) Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.

Consecutive (a.) Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.

Consecutive (a.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden.

Consecutively (adv.) In a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively.

Consecutiveness (n.) The state or quality of being consecutive.

Consension (n.) Agreement; accord.

Consensual (v. i.) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.

Consensual (v. i.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions.

Consensus (n.) Agreement; accord; consent.

Consented (imp. & p. p.) of Consent

Consenting (p. pr. & vb. n) of Consent

Consent (v. i.) To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

Consent (v. i.) To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply.

Consent (v. t.) To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit.

Consent (n.) Agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind; accord.

Consent (n.) Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence.

Consent (n.) Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.

Consent (n.) Capable, deliberate, and voluntary assent or agreement to, or concurrence in, some act or purpose, implying physical and mental power and free action.

Consent (n.) Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4.

Consentaneity (n.) Mutual agreement.

Consentaneous (a.) Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent.

Consentant (a.) Consenting.

Consenter (a.) One who consents.

Consentient (a.) Agreeing in mind; accordant.

Consentingly (adv.) With consent; in a compliant manner.

Consequence (n.) That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.

Consequence (n.) A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.

Consequence (n.) Chain of causes and effects; consecution.

Consequence (n.) Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction.

Consequencing (n.) Drawing inference.

Consequent (a.) Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.

Consequent (a.) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions.

Consequent (n.) That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.

Consequent (n.) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.

Consequent (n.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.

Consequential (a.) Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent.

Consequential (a.) Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4.

Consequentially (adv.) With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically.

Consequentially (adv.) By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially.

Consequentially (adv.) In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously.

Consequentially (adv.) With assumed importance; pompously.

Consequentialness (n.) The quality of being consequential.

Consequently (adv.) By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.

Consertion (n.) Junction; adaptation

Conservable (a.) Capable of being preserved from decay or injury.

Conservancy (n.) Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use.

Conservant (a.) Having the power or quality of conservation.

Conservation (n.) The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

Conservational (a.) Tending to conserve; preservative.

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