CONGRUENCY
CONGRUENCE, CONGRUENCY noun [Latin, to agree, or suit.] Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.
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CONGRUENT
CONGRUENT, adjective Suitable; agreeing; correspondent.
CONGRUITY
CONGRUITY, noun1. Suitableness; the relation of agreement between things.There is no congruity between a mean subject and a lofty style; but an obvious congruity between an elev...
CONGRUOUS
CONGRUOUS, adjective [Latin]1. Suitable; consistent; agreeable to. Light airy music and a solemn or mournful occasion are not congruous Obedience to God is congruous to the ligh...
CONGRUOUSLY
CONGRUOUSLY, adverb Suitably; pertinently; agreeably; consistently.
CONIC
CONIC, CONICAL, adjective [Latin, Gr., See Cone.]
CONICAL
CONIC, CONICAL adjective [Latin, Gr., See Cone.]1. Having the form of a cone; round and decreasing to a point; as a conic figure; a CONICAL vessel2. Pertaining to a cone; as con...
CONICALLY
CONICALLY, adverb In the form of a cone.
CONICALNESS
CONICALNESS, noun The state or quality of being conical.
CONICS
CONICS, noun That part of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise form its sections.
CONIFEROUS
CONIFEROUS, adjective [Latin, to bear.] Bearing cones; producing hard, dry, scaly seed-vessels of a conical figure, as the pine, fir, cypress and beech.
CONIFORM
CONIFORM, adjective [cone and form.] In form of a cone; conical; as a coniform mountain of Potosi.
CONITE
CONITE, noun [Gr., dust.] A mineral of an ash or greenish gray color, which becomes brown by exposure to the air, occurring massive or stalactitic; found in Saxony and in Iceland.
CONJECT
CONJECT, verb transitive To throw together, or to throw. [Not used.]CONJECT, verb intransitive To guess. [Not used.]
CONJECTOR
CONJECTOR, noun [Latin, to cast together; to throw.] One who guesses or conjectures. [See Conjecture.]
CONJECTURABLE
CONJECTURABLE, adjective That may be guessed or conjectured.
CONJECTURAL
CONJECTURAL, adjective Depending on conjecture; done or said by guess; as a conjectural opinion.
CONJECTURALLY
CONJECTURALLY, adverb Without proof, or evidence; by conjecture; by guess; as, this opinion was given conjecturally
CONJECTURE
CONJECTURE, noun [Latin, See Conjector.]1. Literally, a casting or throwing together of possible or probable events; or a casting of the mind to something future, or something p...
CONJECTURED
CONJECTURED, participle passive Guessed; surmised.
CONJECTURER
CONJECTURER, noun One who guesses; a guesser; one who forms or utters an opinion without proof.
CONJECTURING
CONJECTURING, participle present tense Guessing; surmising.
CONJOIN
CONJOIN, verb transitive [Latin, to join. See Join.]1. To join together, without any thing intermediate; to unite two or more persons or things in close connection; as, to conjo...
CONJOINED
CONJOINED, participle passive Joined to or with; united; associated.
CONJOINING
CONJOINING, participle present tense Joining together; uniting; connecting.
CONJOINT
CONJOINT, adjective United; connected; associate.CONJOINT degrees, in music, two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale; as ut and re.CONJOINT tetra...
CONJOINTLY
CONJOINTLY, adverb Jointly; unitedly; in union; together.