conovulus

[ Lat.conus =a cone, and Mod. Lat. ovulus (should it not have been ovulum?), dim in. of ovum an egg.] Zool.: A genus of mollusks, family Auriculide. The shell is obtusely cone-shaped, smooth, with a short flat-whorled spire, a long narrow aperture, the lip denticulated within. They exist in salt marshes on the sea-shore. There are fo il species also in the Eocene. *con-quace, *con-quese, s. [CONQUACE, v.] 1. Conquest. "Fra tyme that he had semblyt his barnage, And herd tell weyle Scotland stude in sic cace, He thocht till hym to mak it playn conquace ." Wallace, i. 60. ( MS .) IMG:content-0646.png:[blocks in formation] con-quad-rate, v. t. [Pref. con, and quadrate (q. v.).] To bring into a square. ( Ash.) *con-quas-sāte, v . t . [Lat. con qua at us, pa. par. of conqua o to shake often or severely: con =together, and qua o to shake repeatedly or violently; qua us = shaken; quatio = to shake.] To shake, to agitate. "Vomits do violently con qua ate the lungs."-Harvey. *còn-quas-sā-těd, pa. par. & a. [CONQUAS SATE.] *con-quas-sa-ting, pr . par . & a. [CONQUAS SATE.] *con-quas-sa-tion, s. [Lat. conqua atio.] The shaken or agitated. act of shaking or agitating; the state of being còn quer (quer as ker or kwer), *con-quere, *con-query, *cun-cweari, *con-quire, v . t . & i. [ duenquerre , cunquerre to conquer: Fr. con quiro (1) to seek, to search for, (2) to conquer: con quérir : Sp. conquerir ; Ital. conquidere : Lat.con= cum =with, together, and quæro to seek.] A. Transitive : 1. To win or gain by conquest; to obtain po e ion of or authority over by superior strength. "He conquered al the reyne of Femynye." Chaucer: C. T., 868. *2. To acquire or gain in any way, to win, to earn. "By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear." IMG:content-0647.png:[blocks in formation] conquerable *6. To succeed in anything, to manage, to at tain to. "If thou with quayntyse conquere hit, I quyte the thy mede." E. Eng. Allit. Poems, Cleanne , 1,632. "Loue asketh pees and euer shall: And who that fighteth most with all, Shall lest conquere of his emprise." B. Intransitive : Gower: Con. A. , bk. iii. 1065 their master, he will treat them for the future as subjects and not as enemies." ( Black stone : Com ment., introd., § 4.) Crabb thus discriminates between conqueror and victor: "A conqueror is always supposed to add something to his po e ions; a victor gains nothing but the superiority: there is no conquest where there is not something gotten; there is no victory where there is no contest: all conquerors are not victors , nor all victors conquerors : those who take tory. "Each o'er its rival's ground extending, Alternate conquering, shifting, blending." *2. To attain, to succeed. Scott: Marmion , vi. 5. Crabb thus discriminates between to conquer, to ranquish, to subdue , to overcome, and to surmount: "Persons or things are conquered or sub dued; persons only are vanquished . An enemy or a country is conquered ; a foe is vanquished ; people one may be vanquished in a are subdued single battle; one is subdued only by the most violent and persevering measures. William the First conquered England by vanquishing his rival Harold; after which he completely subdued the English. Vanquish is used only in the proper sense; conquer and subdue are likewise employed figuratively, in which sense they are analogous to overcome and surmount. That is conquered and subdued which is in the mind; that is overcome and surmounted which is either internal or external. We conquer and overcome what makes no great resistance; we subdue and surmount what is violent and strong in its opposition; dislikes, attachments, and feelings in general, either for or against, are conquered ; unruly and tumultuous pa ions are to be subdued ; a man conquers himself; he subdues his spirit." (Crabb: Eng . Synon.) con-quer-a-ble (quer as ker), a. [Eng. con quer; -able.] Able or liable to be conquered, overcome, or subdued.