CONQUERING
CONQUERING, participle present tense Overcoming; subduing; vanquishing; obtaining.
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CONQUEROR
CONQUEROR, noun One who conquers; one who gains a victory; one who subdues and brings into subjection or possession, by force or by influence. The man who defeats his antagonist...
CONQUEST
CONQUEST, noun [The primary sense is to seek, to press or drive towards.]1. The act of conquering; the act of overcoming or vanquishing opposition by force, physical or moral. A...
CONSANGUINEOUS
CONSANGUINEOUS, adjective [Latin, infra.] Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
CONSANGUINITY
CONSANGUINITY, noun [Latin, blood.] The relation of persons by blood; the relation or connection of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor, in distinction from...
CONSCIENCE
CONSCIENCE, noun [Latin, to know, to be privy to.]1. Internal or self-knowledge, or judgment of right and wrong; or the faculty, power or principle within us, which decides on t...
CONSCIENCED
CONSCIENCED, adjective Having conscience.
CONSCIENT
CONSCIENT, Conscious. [Not used.]
CONSCIENTIOUS
CONSCIENTIOUS, adjective1. Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; as a consci...
CONSCIENTIOUSLY
CONSCIENTIOUSLY, adverb According to the direction of conscience; with a strict regard to right and wrong. A man may err conscientiously
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, noun A scrupulous regard to the decisions of conscience; a sense of justice, and strict conformity to its dictates.All his conduct seemed marked with an exact...
CONSCIONABLE
CONSCIONABLE, adjective According to conscience; reasonable; just.Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction.
CONSCIONABLENESS
CONSCIONABLENESS, noun Reasonableness; equity.
CONSCIONABLY
CONSCIONABLY, adverb In a manner agreeable to conscience; reasonably; justly.
CONSCIOUS
CONSCIOUS, adjective [Latin]1. Possessing the faculty or power of knowing ones own thoughts or mental operations. Thus, man is a conscious being.2. Knowing from memory, or witho...
CONSCIOUSLY
CONSCIOUSLY, adverb With knowledge of ones own mental operations or actions.If these perceptions, with their consciousness, always remained in the mind, the same thinking thing ...
CONSCIOUSNESS
CONSCIOUSNESS, noun1. The knowledge of sensations and mental operations, or of what passes in ones own mind; the act of the mind which makes known an internal object.CONSCIOUSNE...
CONSCRIPT
CONSCRIPT, adjective [Latin, to enroll; to write.] Written; enrolled; as conscript fathers, the senators of Rome, so called because their names were written in the register of t...
CONSCRIPTION
CONSCRIPTION, noun [Latin]1. An enrolling or registering.2. Soldiers or forces levied by enrolling.
CONSECRATE
CONSECRATE, verb transitive [Latin, to consecrate sacred. See Sacred.]1. To make or declare to be sacred, by certain ceremonies or rites; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set a...
CONSECRATED
CONSECRATED, participle passive Made sacred by ceremonies or solemn rites; separated from a common to a sacred use; devoted or dedicated to the service and worship of God; made ...
CONSECRATING
CONSECRATING, participle present tense Making sacred; appropriating to a sacred use; dedicating to the service of God; devoting; rendering venerable.
CONSECRATION
CONSECRATION, noun1. The act or ceremony of separating form a common to a sacred use, or of devoting and dedicating a person or thing to the service and worship of God, by certa...
CONSECRATOR
CONSECRATOR, noun One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.
CONSECRATORY
CONSECRATORY, adjective Making sacred.
CONSECTARY
CONSECTARY, adjective [Latin, to follow. See Seek.] Following; consequent; consequential; deducible.CONSECTARY, noun That which follows; consequence; deduction from premises; co...
CONSECUTION
CONSECUTION, noun [Latin, to follow. See Seek.]1. A following or sequel; train of consequences from premises; series of deductions.2. Succession; series of things that follow ea...