CONJECT, v. n. The knight at his great boldnesse wondered; Spenser. Faerie Queene. Whatsoever may be at any time, out of Scripture, but probably and conjecturally surmised. I intreat you then, From one that but imperfectly conjects, Hooker. Your wisdom would not build yourself a trouble. Now entertain conjecture of a time, Shakspeare. When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, The land appeared a high and rocky coast, CONJEE, or CANCHI, a district of the Carnatic, Hindostan, in the collectorship of Arcot. The face of the country is flat and sandy, but Fills the wide vessel of the universe. Id. Henry V. interspersed with fruitful spots and watered by They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know Who thrives and who declines, side factions, and give out Conjectural marriages. Id. Coriolanus. It were a matter of great profit, save that I doubt it is too conjectural to venture upon, if one could discern what corn, herbs, or fruits, are likely to be in plenty or scarcity. Bacon. If we should believe very grave conjecturers, carni vorous animals now were not flesh devourers then. Browne. They have not recurred unto chronology, or the records of time, but taken themselves unto probabilities, and the conjecturality of philosophy. Id. Vulgar Errours. When we look upon such things as equally may or may not be, human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be. South. For so conjectors would obtrude, And from thy painted skin conclude. Swift. the Palar. Towards the Ghauts it is thinly inhabited. The villages have, generally, the remains of a rampart and stone bastions around them; which were, formerly, necessary to protect the inhabitants from the predatory troops of Tippoo, and other tyrants, who devastated the country. This district has its chief supply of water from tanks and reservoirs, which are well managed here, and adapted to all the agricultural purposes of the inhabitants. CONJEVERAM, or the Golden City, a considerable town in the Carnatic, is forty-six miles south-west from Madras. The streets are wide, and cross each other at right angles, with a range of cocoa-nut trees on each side; but the houses are of mud. The tanks, however, are lined with stone, and generally in good order. Here is a famous pagoda dedicated to Mahadwa. The chief entrance is imposing: on the left, after passing through it, is a large edifice which, the brahmins assert, contains 1000 carved pillars. Many of the groupes of deities are composed with great skill. The sides of the steps leading up to it are formed by two well carved elephants drawing a car. The inner court, being considered of great sanctity, is not suffered to be inspected by strangers. The country around is a barren sand. To CONJOB'BLE, v. a. From con, together, and jobbernol, the head. To concert; to settle; to discuss. A low cant word. What would a body think of a minister that should conjobble matters of state with tumblers, and confer politicks with tinkers? L'Estrange. Fr. conjoindre ; Ital. congiungere; Sp. conjuntar; Lat. conjungere. CONJOIN, v. a. & n. CONJOINING, N. CONJOINT, adj. CONJOINTLY, adv. To CONJUNCT, adj. yoke together is the CONJUNCTION, n. s. idea here conveyed. CONJUNCTIVE, adj. Hence, to conjoin CONJUNCTIVELY, adv. is, to unite; to form CONJUNCTIVENESS, n. s. into one; to conCONJUNCTURE, n. s. nect with; to link firmly together; to unite in marriage; to league with. Conjunction signifies union; association; the meeting of two planets in the same degree of the zodiac; a word that connects together the clauses of a period, and signifies the relation which they bear to each other. Conjunctive formerly meant closely united; but it now only means the mood of a verb which is used subsequently to a conjunction. Conjuncture is, coincidence or co-operation of many circumstances or causes; a critical period; and, though seldom used in these senses, connexion; consistency. And furthermore, no men shulde knowe his owen engendrure, ne who shuld have his heritage, and the woman shuld be the lesse beloved for the time that she were conjunct to many men. Chaucer. Cant. Tales. They did their counsels nor in one compound, Where single forces faile, conioynd may gaine. Spenser. Faerie Queene. He will unite the white rose and the red; Smile heaven upon his fair conjunction, That long hath frowned upon their enmity. Shakspeare. She is so conjunctive to my life and soul, This part of his Id. Id. Henry IV. If either of you know any inward impediment, Why you should not be conjoined, I charge You on your souls to utter it. Id. Much Ado. It pleased the king, his master, to strike at me; When he, conjunct, and flattering his displeasure, Tript me behind. Id. King Lear. God, neither by drawing waters from the deep, nor by any conjunction of the stars, should bury them under a second flood. Raleigh. The treaty gave abroad a reputation of a strict conjunction and amity between them. Bacon. I never met with a more unhappy conjuncture of affairs than in the business of that earl. King Charles. I was willing to grant to presbytery what with reason it can pretend to, in a conjuncture with epis copacy. Id. Such censures always attend such conjunctures; and find fault for what is not done, as with that which is done. Clarendon. These are good mediums conjunctively taken, har Brown. is, not one without the other. Common and universal spirits convey the action of the remedy into the part, and conjoin the virtue of Browne's Vulgar Errours. bodies far disjoined. A gross and frequent error, commonly committed in the use of doubtful remedies, conjointly with those that are of approved virtues. Id. Men of differing interests can be reconciled in one communion; at least, the designs of all can be conjoined in ligatures of the same reverence, and piety, and devotion. Taylor. Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined Loche. with what he knows already. Herein, I think, lies the chief, if not the only. reason, why the male and female in mankind are tied to a longer conjunction than other creatures, viz. because the female is capable of conceiving, and de facto is commonly with child again, and brings forth to a new birth, long before the former is out of a dependency for a support on his parents' help, and able to shift for himself, and has all the assistance that is due to him from his parents. Thou wrongest Pirithous, and not him alone; But, while I live, two friends conjoined in one. Id. Dryden. The parts of the body, separately, make known the passions of the soul, or else conjointly one with the other. Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength, but as he acts in society and conjunction with others. South. and conjunctures of letters in words. He is quick to perceive the motion of articulation, Holder's Elements of Speech. Every virtue requires time and place, a proper object, and a fit conjuncture of circumstances. Addison's Spectator. Pompey and Cæsar were two stars of such a magnitude, that their conjunction was as fatal as their opposition. Swift. Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there: Ice upon ice, the well adjusted parts Were soon conjoined, nor other cement asked Than water interfused to make them one. CONISSALÆ, in mineralogy, a class of fossils naturally and essentially compounded, not inflammable, nor soluble in water, found in detached masses, and formed of crystalline matter debased by earth. Of this class there are two orders, consisting of only one genus each. Those of the first are found in form of a naturally regular and uniform powder; all the genuine particles of which are nearly of one determinate shape, appearing regularly concreted, and not fragments of others once larger. Connissalæ of the second order are found in form of a rude, irregular, and shapeless powder, the particles of which are never of any determinate figure, but seem broken fragments of once larger masses. To the former genus belong the different species of sand; and to the latter the saburræ, or grits. CONJUGATE, v. a., n. s., adj. CONJUGATION, n. s. CONJUGAL, adj. CONJUGA'LITY, n. s. CONJUGALLY, adv. Lat. conjugure, from con and ju gum. These words are closely allied with conjoin and its congeners; both classes having the sense of to yoke together. To conjugate is to join together; to unite in marriage; to live together: but the verb thus applied seems to be nearly disused. Its most common meaning is, to inflect verbs; to repeat all the various terminations of verbs. The noun, which signifies agreeing in derivation with another word, is also of rare occurrence. In geometry, the conjugate diameter is, a right line which bisects the transverse-diameter. Conjugal is that which relates to matrimony. Conjugation means a couple; the act of uniting things; union; and, more commonly, the form of inflecting verbs through their series of terminations. The quotation from Cowper will show, however, that there is modern authority for using this noun in the sense of an union. The general and indefinite contemplations and notions of the elements, and their conjugations, are to be set aside, being but notional; and illimited and indefinite axioms are to be drawn out of measured inBacon. stances. Those drawing as well marriage as wardship, gave him both power and occasion to conjugate at pleasure the Norman and the Saxon houses. Wotton. of the Lord is the most sacred, mysteriThe supper ous, and useful conjugation of secret and holy things and duties. The heart is so far from affording nerves unto other parts, that it receiveth very few itself from the sixth conjugation or pair of nerves. Browne. Taylor. CONJUGATION, in grammar. See GRAMMAR and LANGUAGE. The par the digynia order, and pentandria class of plants, CONIUM, in botany, hemlock, a genus of tial involucra are halved, and mostly triphyllous; natural order forty-fifth, umbellatæ. the fruit sub-globose and quinque-striated, the striæ crenated on each side. The three principal species are, 1. C. Africanum, with prickly seeds, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and rarely growing above nine inches high. 2. C. maculatum, or the greater hemlock, grows naturally of Britain. It is a biennial plant which perishes on the sides of banks and roads in many parts after it has ripened its seeds. It flowers in June, and the seeds ripen in autumn. sometimes applied externally, in the form of deThis species is coction, infusion, or poultice, as a discutient. 3. C. tenuifolium, with a striated seed, differs from the last in having taller stalks, which are not so much spotted. The leaves are much narrower, and of a paler green; and this difference is constant. It is a biennial plant, and grows naturally in Germany. CONJU'RE, v. a. & n.) CO'NJURE, v. n. CONJURER, n. s. CONJURING, n. s. CONJURATION, n. s. CONJURATOR, n. s. CONJU'REMENT, n. s. Fr. conjurer; It. congiurare; Sp. conjurar; Lat.conjurare.. >To swear in concert; to conspire; to bind by an oath to some design common to all the parties; to summon in a sacred name; to adjure solemnly; to evoke; to influence by enchantment; to practise charms or magical ceremonies. When the verb is used in the last two senses it has the accent on the first syllable. Conjuration is the form of solemnly summoning; an incantation; a conspiracy; but this last meaning is disused. A conjurer is one who uses enchantments; an imposter who pretends to be versed in magic. The word is also used ironically. Conjurement signifies a demand, or injunction, made with great earnestness. Nece, I conjure and highly you defende, On his beholfe whiche that soul usall sende, 2 A And in the vertue of corounis twaine, Chaucer. Troilus and Creseide. Let us go now to that horrible swering of adjuration and conjuration, as don those false enchantours and nigromancers in basins full of water, or in a bright swerde, in a cercle, or in a fire, or in a sholder bone of a shepe. Id. Cant. Tales. Ye wyndes I you conjure in chiefest of your rage, That ye my lord safely send my sorrowes to asswage. Earl of Surrey. There was she faine To call them all in order to her ayde, What black magician conjures up this fiend, Sidney. CONJURATION properly implies magic words characters, or ceremonies, whereby evil spirits, tempests, &c. are supposed to be raised, or driven away. The Romish priests formerly affirmed that they could expel devils, by preparing holy water in a particular manner, and sprinkling it over the possessed, with a number of conjurations and exorcisms. Some authors make the difference between conjuration and witchcraft to consist in this, that the former effects its end by prayers and invocation of God's name, &c. to compel the evil spirit to do what is desired; whereas the latter attains its end by an immediate supplication to the devil himself. Both these, again, differ from enchantment and sorcery; in that these latter operate secretly and slowly by spells, charms, &c. without invoking infernal aid. CONNARUS, Ceylon sumach, in botany, a Bear such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow Like wonder-wounded hearers? What drugs, what charms, Id. Hamlet. He in proud rebellious arms Milton. Paradise Lost. I should not be induced but by your earnest intreaties and serious conjurements. Milton. I thought their own fears, whose black arts first raised up those turbulent spirits, would force them to conjure them down again. King Charles. He concluded with sighs and tears to conjure them, that they would no more press him to consent to a thing so contrary to his reason. Clarendon, I conjure you! Let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. Addison's Cato. You have conjured up persons that exist no where else but on old coins, and have made our passions and virtues visible. Addison. Our palaces are vast inhospitable halls. There the bleak winds there Boreas, and Eurus, and Caurus, and Argestes loud,' howling through the vacant lobbies, and clattering the doors of deserted guard-rooms, appal the imagination, and conjure up the grim spectres of departed tyrants-the Saxon, the Norman, and the Dane, &c. Burke. Great skill have they in palmistry, and more bivalved, unilocular, and monospermous. The principal species is C. monocarpus, a native of India. It rises with a ligneous stalk eight or ten feet high, which is hard, rigid, and covered with a black bark, and divides upward into two or three branches with trifoliate leaves, having long foot-stalks placed alternate. It is propagated by cuttings, and is treated like other exotics. CONNATE, adj. Lat, con and natus. CONNA'SCENCE, n. s. Brought into existence along with another; being of the same birth. Common birth; production at the same time; being produced together with another being. Christians have baptized these geminous births and double connascencies, as containing in them a distinction of soul. Browne's Vulgar Errours. Symphysis denotes a connascence, or growing together. Wiseman. Many, who deny all connate notions in the specula South tive intellect, do yet admit them in this. Their dispositions to be reflected, some at a greater, and others at a less thickness, of thin plates or bubbles, are connate with the rays, and immutable. Newton's Optics. Fr. connatural; It. connaturare, connaturale; Sp. connaturalizarse, CONNATURALIZE, v. a. CONNA'TURAL, adj. CONNATURALITY, n.s. CONNA'TURALLY, adv. CONNA'TURALNESS, N. s. connatural; Lat. con and nascor. The verb signifies to render consonant to; to unite by similarity of nature; to make natural to. It is seldom used. Connatural is, participating in the same nature; linked with the being; united by nature; natural iu common to all. First in man's mind we find an appetite To learn and know the truth of every thing. And from the essence of the soul doth spring. Cowper. Some common notions seem connaturally engraven in the soul, antecedently to discussive ratiocination. Id. There is a connaturality and congruity between that knowledge and those habits, and that future estate of the soul. Hale By chains connered, and with destructive sweep Behead whole troops at once Philips. How often have you been forced to swallow sickness, to drink dead palsies and foaming epilepsies, to render your intemperances familiar to you,-before ever you could connaturalize your midnight revels to inseparable connexion between virtue and happiness your temper. Scott. These affections are connatural to us, and as we grow up, so do they. L'Estrange. CONNAUGHT, the most western of the four provinces of Ireland, bounded on the east by that of Leinster, on the west by the ocean, on the north and north-west by part of the ocean and province of Ulster, and on the south and south-east by Munster. It is 130 miles long and eighty-four broad; and was a distinct kingdom till the reign of Henry II. It has no rivers of note besides the Shannon, but possesses several convenient bays and creeks; and the soil is fertile in many places. It formerly contained many dangerous bogs, overrun with wood, now in some measure cleared; and produces abundance of cattle, sheep, and deer: it is, however, still the least cultivated of all the four provinces. It contains six counties, one archbishopric, five bishoprics, seven market-towns, ten boroughs, and 330 villages. The distinction of Ireland into provinces is said not to have been of late regarded in any public documents. connettere; CONNECT, v. a. & n. Ital. CONNEX, V. a. Lat. connectere, from CONNECTTON, or con and nectere. To CONNEXION, n. s. link together; to knit CONNECTIVE, or together; to conjoin; CONNEXIVE, n. 8. & adj. to bring into union; CONNECTIVELY, adv. to be coherent; to CONNEXING, n.s. produce a consistent whole from the parts. Connexion is the state of being conjoined; the act of joining; just relation to.something which precedes or follows; coherence of parts. Connective, as a noun, signifies a conjunction. In common parlance, a man's connexions mean his relations and friends; and to form a connexion with, is, to become very intimate with; to join in business or politics with; to enter into an immoral alliance with a female. My heart, which by a secret harmony Milton. Contemplation of human nature doth, by a necessary connexion and chain of causes, carry us up to the Deity. Hale. Those birds who are taught some words or sentences, cannot conner their words or sentences in coherence with the matter which they signify. Id. Origin of Mankind. The natural order of the connecting ideas must direct the syllogisms; and a man must see connexion of There must be a future state, where the eternal and shall be manifested. Atterbury. The predicate and subject are joined in a form of words by connexive particles. Watts's Logick. The diversified but connected fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts; and depend upon it, I never have employed, and I never will employ, any engine of power which may come into my hands to wrench it asunder. Burke. the world as legislator of Indostan. But it was necesPaul Benfield's associate and agent was held up to sary to authenticate the coalition between the men of intrigue in India, and the minister of intrigue in England, by a studied display of the power of this their connecting link. Every trust, every honour, every distinction, was to be heaped upon him. Id. CONNECTICUT, or as it was called by the ancient inhabitants, Quinnikticut, one of the United States of North America, is situated between 40° 58′ and 42° 2′ N. lat., and 3° 16′ and 5° 10′ E. long. It is seventy-two miles broad and 100 miles long; and bounded on the north by Massachusetts, on the east by Rhode Island, on the south by Long Island Sound, and on the west by the state of New York; containing about 4674 square miles, or a computed area of 2,991,360 acres. The following table contains a list of its counties, population, and chief towns. |