Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 113

Conspirer (n.) One who conspires; a conspirator.

Conspiringly (adv.) In the manner of a conspirator; by conspiracy.

Conspissation (n.) A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation.

Conspurcate (v. t.) To pollute; to defile.

Conspurcation (n.) The act of defiling; defilement; pollution.

Constable (n.) A high officer in the monarchical establishments of the Middle Ages.

Constable (n.) An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to execute the warrants of judicial officers.

Constablery (n.) The constabulary.

Constablery (n.) The district or jurisdiction of a constable.

Constableship (n.) The office or functions of a constable.

Constabless (n.) The wife of a constable.

Constablewick (n.) The district to which a constable's power is limited.

Constabulary (a.) Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.

Constabulary (n.) The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country.

Constabulatory (n.) A constabulary.

Constancy (n.) The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.

Constancy (n.) Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity.

Constant (v. t.) Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid.

Constant (v. t.) Not liable, or given, to change; permanent; regular; continuous; continually recurring; steadfast; faithful; not fickle.

Constant (v. t.) Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, force, law, etc.

Constant (v. t.) Consistent; logical.

Constant (n.) That which is not subject to change; that which is invariable.

Constant (n.) A quantity that does not change its value; -- used in countradistinction to variable.

Constantia (n.) A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.

Constantly (adv.) With constancy; steadily; continually; perseveringly; without cessation; uniformly.

Constat (n.) A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.

Constate (v. t.) To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.

Constellate (v. i. ) To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.

Constellate (v. t.) To unite in one luster or radiance, as stars.

Constellate (v. t.) To set or adorn with stars or constellations; as, constellated heavens.

Constellation (n.) A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.

Constellation (n.) An assemblage of splendors or excellences.

Constellation (n.) Fortune; fate; destiny.

Consternation (n.) Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

Constipated (imp. & p. p.) of Constipate

Constipating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Constipate

Constipate (v. t.) To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.

Constipate (v. t.) To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

Constipate (v. t.) To render costive; to cause constipation in.

Constipation (n.) Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.

Constipation (n.) A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.

Constituencies (pl. ) of Constituency

Constituency (n.) A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.

Constituent (a.) Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

Constituent (a.) Having the power of electing or appointing.

Constituent (n.) The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.

Constituent (n.) That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.

Constituent (n.) One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.

Constituent (n.) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.

Constituted (imp. & p. p.) of Constitute

Constituting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Constitute

Constitute (v. t.) To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

Constitute (v. t.) To make up; to compose; to form.

Constitute (v. t.) To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.

Constitute (n.) An established law.

Constituter (n.) One who constitutes or appoints.

Constitution (n.) The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

Constitution (n.) The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes a system or body; natural condition; structure; texture; conformation.

Constitution (n.) The aggregate of all one's inherited physical qualities; the aggregate of the vital powers of an individual, with reference to ability to endure hardship, resist disease, etc.; as, a robust constitution.

Constitution (n.) The aggregate of mental qualities; temperament.

Constitution (n.) The fundamental, organic law or principles of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs.

Constitution (n.) An authoritative ordinance, regulation or enactment; especially, one made by a Roman emperor, or one affecting ecclesiastical doctrine or discipline; as, the constitutions of Justinian.

Constitutional (a.) Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.

Constitutional (a.) In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society; as, constitutional reforms.

Constitutional (a.) Regulated by, dependent on, or secured by, a constitution; as, constitutional government; constitutional rights.

Constitutional (a.) Relating to a constitution, or establishment form of government; as, a constitutional risis.

Constitutional (a.) For the benefit or one's constitution or health; as, a constitutional walk.

Constitutional (n.) A walk or other exercise taken for one's health or constitution.

Constitutionalism (n.) The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherence to a constitution or constitutional government.

Constitutionalist (n.) One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.

ties (pl. ) of Constitutionality

Constitutionality (n.) The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame.

Constitutionality (n.) The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions.

Constitutionally (adv.) In accordance with the constitution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid.

Constitutionally (adv.) In accordance with the constitution or fundamental law; legally; as, he was not constitutionally appointed.

Constitutionist (n.) One who adheres to the constitution of the country.

Constitutive (a.) Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.

Constitutive (a.) Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining.

Constitutively (adv.) In a constitutive manner.

Constrained (imp. & p. p.) of Constrain

Constraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Constrain

Constrain (v. t.) To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.

Constrain (v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.

Constrain (v. t.) To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.

Constrain (v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.

Constrain (v. t.) To violate; to ravish.

Constrain (v. t.) To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.

Constrainable (a.) Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint.

Constrained (a.) Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.

Constrainedly (adv.) By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner.

Constrainer (n.) One who constrains.

Constraint (n.) The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

Constraintive (a.) Constraining; compulsory.

Constricted (imp. & p. p.) of Constrict

Constricting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Constrict

Constrict (v. t.) To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

Constricted (a.) Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

Constricted (a.) Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others.

Constriction (n.) The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.

Constriction (n.) The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.

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