Webster's Dictionary 1828

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CONSPIRING

CONSPIRING, participle present tense1. Agreeing to commit a crime; plotting; uniting or concurring to one end.2. In mechanics, conspiring powers are such as act in a direction n...

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CONSPIRINGLY

CONSPIRINGLY, adverb In the manner of a conspiracy; by conspiracy.

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CONSPISSATION

CONSPISSATION, noun [Latin] The act of making thick or viscous; thickness.

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CONSPURCATION

CONSPURCATION, noun [Latin, to defile.] The act of defiling; defilement; pollution. [Not in use.]

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CONSTABLE

CONSTABLE, noun [Latin, a stable; count of the stable.]1. The Lord High constable of England, the seventh officer of the crown. He had the care of the common peace, in deeds of ...

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CONSTABLESHIP

CONSTABLESHIP, noun The office of a constable.

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CONSTABLEWICK

CONSTABLEWICK, noun The district to which a constables power is limited.

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CONSTANCY

CONSTANCY, noun [Latin, to stand.]1. Fixedness; a standing firm; hence, applied to God or his works, immutability; unalterable continuance; a permanent state.2. Fixedness or fir...

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CONSTANT

CONSTANT, adjective [Latin]1. Fixed; firm; opposed to fluid.To turn two fluid liquors into a constant body.[In this sense, not used.]2. Fixed; not varied; unchanged; permanent; ...

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CONSTANTINOPOLITAN

CONSTANTINOPOLITAN, adjective Relating to Constantinople, the metropolis of Turkey in Europe.

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CONSTANTLY

CONSTANTLY, adverb Firmly; steadily; invariably; continually; perseveringly.Rhoda constantly affirmed that it was even so. Acts 12:15.These things I will that thou affirm consta...

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CONSTAT

CONSTAT, noun [Latin, it appears.]1. In England, a certificate given by the clerk of the pipe and auditors of the exchequer, to a person who intends to plead or move for a disch...

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CONSTELLATE

CONSTELLATE, verb intransitive [Low Latin, to shine, a star.] To join luster; to shine with united radiance or one general light. [Little used.]The several things which engage o...

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CONSTELLATED

CONSTELLATED, participle passive1. United in one splendor.2. Starry; set or adorned with stars or constellations.

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CONSTELLATION

CONSTELLATION, noun1. A cluster of fixed stars; an asterism; a number of stars which appear as if situated near each other in the heavens, and are considered as forming a partic...

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CONSTERNATION

CONSTERNATION, noun [Latin, to throw or strike down.] Astonishment; amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates a person for consultation and execution; ...

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CONSTIPATE

CONSTIPATE, verb transitive [Latin, to crowd, or cram. See Stuff and Stop.]1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to thicken or condense.2. To stop, by filling a passage, an...

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CONSTIPATION

CONSTIPATION, noun1. The act of crowding any thing into a less compass; a pressing together; condensation; as a close constipation of particles.2. More generally, a crowding or ...

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CONSTITUENT

CONSTITUENT, adjective [Latin, to set. See Statue, Statute.] Setting; constituting; applied to parts of a thing that are essential to it. Hence, necessary or essential; elementa...

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CONSTITUTE

CONSTITUTE, verb transitive [Latin, to set.]1. To set; to fix; to enact; to establish.We must obey laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority, not against the law of God...

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CONSTITUTED

CONSTITUTED, participle passive Set; fixed; established; made; elected; appointed.

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CONSTITUTER

CONSTITUTER, noun One who constitutes or appoints.

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CONSTITUTING

CONSTITUTING, participle present tense Setting; establishing; composing; electing; appointing.

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CONSTITUTION

CONSTITUTION, noun1. The act of constituting, enacting, establishing, or appointing.2. The state of being; that form of being or peculiar structure and connection of parts which...

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CONSTITUTIONAL

CONSTITUTIONAL, adjective1. Bred or inherent in the constitution, or in the natural frame of body or mind; as a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dulness.2. Cons...

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CONSTITUTIONALIST

CONSTITUTIONALIST, noun1. An adherent to the constitution of government.2. An innovator of the old constitution, or a framer or friend of the new constitution in France.

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CONSTITUTIONALITY

CONSTITUTIONALITY, noun1. The state of being constitutional; the state of being inherent in the natural frame; as the constitutionality of disease.2. The state of being consiste...