Conquian
Con″qui‐an (?), n.(Card Playing) A game for two, played with 40 cards, in which each player tries to form three or four of a kind or sequences.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Con″qui‐an (?), n.(Card Playing) A game for two, played with 40 cards, in which each player tries to form three or four of a kind or sequences.
Con′san‐guin″e‐al (?), a. Of the same blood; related by birth. Sir T. Browne.
Con‐san″guined (?), a. Of kin blood; related. Johnson.
Con′san‐guin″e‐ous (?), a. [L. conguineus; con- + sanguis blood: cf. F. consanguin. See Sanquine.] Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancesto...
Con′san‐guin″i‐ty (?), n. [L. consanguinitas: cf. F. consanguintité.] The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship;...
Con‐sar′ci‐na″tion (?), n. [L. consarcinare, -natum, to patch together.] A patching together; patchwork. Bailey.
Con″science (?), n. [F. conscience, fr. L. conscientia, fr. consciens, p. pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire to know. See Science.] 1. Knowledge of one's own...
Con″scienced (?), a. Having a conscience. “Soft-conscienced men.” Shak.
Con″science‐less, a. Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous.Conscienceless and wicked patrons.Hookre.
Con″scient (?), a. [L. consciens, -entis, p. pr.] Conscious. Bacon.
Con′sci‐en″tious (?), a. [Cf. F. consciencieux, LL. conscientiosus.] 1. Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or s...
Con′sci‐en″tious‐ly (?), adv. In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.
Con′sci‐en″tious‐ness, n. The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.
Con″scion‐a‐ble (?), a. [Irregularly formed fr. conscience.] Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction.Sir H. Wotton.
Con″scion‐a‐ble‐ness, n. The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness. Johnson.
Con″scion‐a‐bly, adv. Reasonably; justly.
Con″scious (?), a. [L. conscius; con- + scire to know. See Conscience.] 1. Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.Some are thinking or conscio...
Con″scious‐ly, adv. In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.
Con″scious‐ness (?), n. 1. The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.Consciousness is thus, on the one ...
Con‐scribe″ (?), v. t. [L. conscribere. See Conscript.] To enroll; to enlist. E. Hall.
Con″script (?), a. [L. conscriptus, p. p. of conscribere to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See Scribe.] Enrolled; written; registered.Conscript fathers(Rom...
Con″script, n. One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
Con‐script″ (?), v. t. To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
Con‐scrip″tion (?), n. [L. conscriptio: cf. F. conscription.] 1. An enrolling or registering.The conscription of men of war.Bp. Burnet.2. A compulsory enrollment of men for mili...
Con‐scrip″tion (?), a. Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.
Con″se‐crate (?), a. [L. consceratus, p. p. of conscerare to conscerate; con- + sacrare to consecrate, sacer sacred. See Sacred.] Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.They we...
Con″se‐crate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Consecrated; p. pr. & vb. n.Consecrating.] 1. To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or d...