Webster's Dictionary 1828

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CONCILIATING

CONCILIATING, participle present tense1. Winning; engaging; reconciling.2. Winning; having the quality of gaining favor; as a conciliating address.

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CONCILIATION

CONCILIATION, noun The act of winning or gaining, as esteem, favor or affection; reconciliation.

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CONCILIATOR

CONCILIATOR, noun One who conciliates or reconciles.

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CONCILIATORY

CONCILIATORY, adjective Tending to conciliate, or reconcile; tending to make peace between persons at variance; pacific.The General made conciliatory propositions to the insurge...

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CONCINNITY

CONCINNITY, noun [Latin Fit, to fit or prepare; to sound in accord.]1. Fitness; suitableness; neatness. [Little used.]2. A jingling of words.

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CONCINNOUS

CONCINNOUS, adjective [Latin See Concinnity.] Fit; suitable; agreeable; becoming; pleasant; as a concinnous interval in music; a concinnous system.

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CONCIONATOR

CONCIONATOR, noun A preacher. [Not in use.]

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CONCIONATORY

CONCIONATORY, adjective [Latin, An assembly.] Used in preaching or discourses to public assemblies.

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CONCISE

CONCISE, adjective [Latin, cut off, brief, to cut. See Class Gd. No. 2. 4. 8. 49. 59.] Brief; short, applied to language or stile; containing few words; comprehensive; comprehen...

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CONCISELY

CONCISELY, adverb Briefly; in few words; comprehensively.

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CONCISENESS

CONCISENESS, noun Brevity in speaking or writing.CONCISENESS should not be studied at the expense of perspicuity.

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CONCISION

CONCISION, noun [Latin, to cut off.] Literally, a cutting off. Hence, In scripture, the Jews or those who adhered to circumcision, which, after our Savior's death, was no longer...

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CONCITATION

CONCITATION, noun [Latin, to stir or disturb.] The act of stirring up, exciting or putting in motion.

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CONCITE

CONCITE, verb transitive [Latin] To excite. [Not in use.]

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CONCLAMATION

CONCLAMATION, noun [Latin, to cry out. See Claim.] An outcry or shout of many together.

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CONCLAVE

CONCLAVE, noun [Latin, an inner room; a key, or from the same root, to make fast.]1. A private apartment, particularly the room in which the Cardinals of the Romish church meet ...

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CONCLUDE

CONCLUDE, verb transitive [Latin, to shut; Gr., contracted. The sense is to stop, make fast, shut, or rather to thrust together. Hence in Latin, claudo signifies to halt, or lim...

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CONCLUDED

CONCLUDED, participle passive Shut; ended; finished; determined; inferred; comprehended; stopped, or bound.

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CONCLUDENCY

CONCLUDENCY, noun Inference; logical deducation from premises.

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CONCLUDENT

CONCLUDENT, adjective Bringing to a close; decisive.

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CONCLUDER

CONCLUDER, noun One who concludes.

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CONCLUDING

CONCLUDING, participle present tense1. Shutting; ending; determining; inferring; comprehending.2. Final; ending; closing; as the concluding sentence of an essay.

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CONCLUDINGLY

CONCLUDINGLY, adverb Conclusively; with incontrovertible evidence. [Little used.]

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CONCLUSIBLE

CONCLUSIBLE, adjective That may be concluded or inferred; determinable. [Little used.]

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CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION, noun [Latin]1. End; close; the last part; as the conclusion of an address.2. The close of an argument, debate or reasoning; inference that ends the discussion; final...

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CONCLUSIONAL

CONCLUSIONAL, adjective Concluding. [Not used.]

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CONCLUSIVE

CONCLUSIVE, adjective1. Final; decisive; as a conclusive answer to a proposition.2. Decisive; giving a final determination; precluding a further act.The agreeing votes of both h...