comer an cet

An obsolete form of cumbrance. come roust, a. An obsolete form of cumbrous. comes (kō'mēz), n.; pl.comites (kom'i-tēz). [L. (ML. NL.), a companion, > ult. E. count2, q. v.] 1. In ancient Rome and the Roman empire, a companion of or attendant upon a great person; hence, the title of an adjutant to a proconsul or the like, afterward specifically of the immediate personal counselors of the emperor, and finally of many high officers, the most important of whom were the prototypes of the medieval counts. See count2.-2. [ML.] In early and medieval usage, a book containing the epistles to be used at ma ; an epistolary; more specifically, the ancient mi al lectionary of the Roman Church, containing the epistles and gospels, and said to have been drawn up by St. Jerome. Hence-3. [NL.] In music, the repetition of the subject or "dux" of a fugue by the second voice at the interval of a fourth or fifth. Also called consequent, or answer.-4. [NL.] In an at., a ve el accompanying another ve el or other structure. - Comes nervi ischiadic i, the artery accompanying the great sciatic nerve. - Comes nervi phrenic i, a branch of the mammary artery accompanying the phrenic nerve. - Venæ comites (companion veins), the usually paired veins accompanying many of the smaller arteries of the body, as the ulnar, radial, or brachial. come ationt (kom-e-sā'shon), n. [ IMG:content-0864.png:[blocks in formation] 1122 comfort Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 246. II. n. An eatable; an edible; an article of food. Wine, wax lights, comestibles, rouge, ., would go to the deuce if people did not act upon their silly principles. of a comet.