bim." South." There is not so contemptible a plant, or animal, that does not confound the most enlarged understanding." Locke, "The Contend, content, and contention. See CUM. ancients made contention the principle that reigned in chaos at first, and then love; the one to express the divisions, and the other the union of all parties in the middle and common bond." Burnet's Theory of the Earth. Contentment, from CONTENT. "Some place the bliss in action, some in ease; Pope. Contest, from contra, against, and testari, to bear witness. To dispute, to call in question. "A definition is the only way whereby the meaning of words can be known without leaving room for contest about it." Locke. Context.-Contiguous. See CUM. Continence, continent, continue, continual, continuation.' See CUM. Contradict, from contra, against, and dico, I speak. To assert the contrary to what has been said. Contradistinguish, from contra, against, and distinguish. To distinguish not simply by qualities which are different, but by qualities which are opposite. Contrary, from contra, against. "The various and contrary choices that men make in the world, do not argue that they do not all pursue good; but that the same thing is not good to every man alike." Locke. Contributary. See CUM. Controversy and controvert, from contra, against, and verto, 1 turn. A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing. Contumacy.--Contumely. See CUM. "Why should any man be troubled at the contumely of those, whose judgment deserves not to be valued?" Tillotson. Contusion. See CUM. Convene.--Convenience. See CUM. "A man putting all his pleasures into one, is like a traveller's putting all his goods into one jewel; the value is the same, and the convenience greater." Convent, conventicle, convention.-Converge. See CUM. Conversant. See CUM. "If any think education, because it is conversant about children, to be but a private and domestic duty, he has been ignorantly bred himself." Wotton on Education. Conversation.-Converse. See CUM. A proposition is said to be the converse of another, when, after drawing a conclusion from something before proposed, we proceed to suppose what had been before concluded, and draw from it what had been supposed. Thus, if two sides of a triangle be equal, the angles opposite to those sides are also equal: the converse of the proposition is, that if two angles of a triangle be equal, the sides opposite to those angles are also equal. Conversion.-Convert.-Convex. See CUM. "If the eye were so piercing as to descry even opake and little objects a hundred leagues off, it would do us little service; it would be terminated by neighbouring hills and woods; or in the largest plain, by the very convexity of the earth." Newton. Convey.. See CUM. "Since there appears not to be any ideas in the mind, before the senses have conveyed any in, I conceive that ideas in the understanding are coeval with sensation." Locke. Convict.-Convince.-Convocation. See CUM. Convocation. Au assembly of the clergy for consultation upon matters ecclesiastical; and, as the parliament consists of two distinct houses, so does this; the one called the upper house, where the archbishops and bishops sit by themselves; the other the lower house, where all the rest of the clergy are represented by their deputies. Convoke. Convolution.-Convulse. See CUM. Copula, from copula, a band. The word which unites the subject and predicate of a proposition; as, "God is good.' "God" is the subject, "is" the copula, and "good" the predicate. Copulative propositions are those which include several subjects, joined together by an affirmative or negative conjunction; thus, "Riches and power alone do not make a inan happy "neither gold nor jewels will purchase immortality." Cornucopia, from cornu, a horn, and copie, of plenty. Cornucopia, among the ancient poets, a horn out of which proceeded plenty of all things, by a particular privilege which Jupiter granted his nurse, supposed to be the goat Amalthea. The real sense of the fable is this, in Libya there is a little territory shaped not unlike a bullock's horn, exceedingly fertile, given by king Ammon to his daughter Amalthea, whom the poets feign to have been Jupiter's nurse. Corollary, corollarium, from corals being given by the audience to players, and thus denoting a reward given beyond what was due. Corollary is used for a consequence drawn from some proposition already advanced or demonstrated; as if from this theorem, " that a triangle which has two equal sides, has also two equal angles,' this consequence (corollary) should be drawn, "that a triangle, which has the three sides equal, has also its three angles equal." Coronation, from corona, a crown. The act or solemnity of crowning a king. Corporal. See CORPUS. "In the present language, when the body is used philosophically, in opposition to spirit, the word corporeal is used, as a corporeal being;' but otherwise corporal, as corporal punishment. Corporeal is having a body; corporal, relating to the body. This distinction seems not ancient." Johnson.-Cor poration, or a body corporate. A number of persons united in a body or community, and enabled to act in legal processes as an individual.-Corporeal. Having a body, the contrary to spiritual, "God being sup posed to be a pure spirit, cannot be the object of any corporeal sense." Tillotson.-Corpulence. Bulkiness of body.-Corpuscle. A little body. Correct. See Correlative.--Correspond.--Corroborate.-— Corrode, corrosion, and corrosive.-Corrupt. CUM. 66 Language being the conduit whereby men convey their knowledge, he that makes an ill use of it, though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge which are in things, yet he stops the pipes." Locke. Cotemporary. See CONTEMPORARY, Create, from creo, I form out of nothing.-Creation. The act of creating.-Creative. Having the power to create. Creator. The being that creates.-Creature. A being not self-existent, but created by the supreme power. Any thing created. "God's first creature was light," Bacon. Credence, from credo, I believe. Belief.-Credenda. Things to be believed; articles of faith; distinguished from agenda, or things to be done.-Credential. That which gives a title to credit; the warrant upon which belief or authority is claimed. "A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the Divine Person who sent them on such a message." Addison on the Christian Religion.— Credibility. Claim to credit; worthiness of being believed; "Calculate the several degrees of credibility and conviction, by which one evidence surpasseth the other."-Credible. Worthy of credit. "None can demonstrate to me, that there is such an island as Jamaica; yet, upon the testimony of credible persons, I am free from doubt."-Credit. Belief of; faith yielded to another. Trust reposed, with regard to property: correlative to debt.-Creditor. He that gives credit, he to whom a debt is owed: correlative to debtor. Credulity. Easiness of belief.-Credulous. Apt to believe.-Creed. A short account of the chief articles of the Christian faith; thus called from the first word, credo, I believe. The principal creeds are the Apostles', the Athanasian, and the Nicene. These three creeds are enjoined by the eighth article of the Church of England to be received and believed. Crescent, from crescens, increasing. The moon in her state of increase; any similitude of the moon increasing. Crucifixion, from crux, crucis, a cross, and fixus, fastened. The punishment of nailing to a cross. Curtail, from curto, I shorten. "It was anciently written curtal, which perhaps is more proper; but dogs that had their tail cut being called curtal dogs, the word was vulgarly conceived to mean originally to cut the tail, and was in time written according to that notion." Johnson." This humour for speaking no more than we must, has miserably curtailed some of our words; and, in familiar writing and conversation, they often lose all but their first syllable." D. See CASE. Addison. DATIVE. See Do. The epithet of the case that signifies giving something to a person. Debility.-Debilitate. See DE. Debt. See HABEO. Decapitate. Decease.-Deceive. See Dr. See SEPTEMBER. Decency, from decet, it becomes. Propriety of form; proper formality; becoming ceremony. دو "Immodest words admit of no defence, Decide, deciduous, and decision. See DE. F |