cœur (ker)

[F., E. = E. heart: see corel and heart .] In her ., the heart of the shield, otherwise called the center or fe e point . Lines and bearings are spoken corel), of as being en cœur when they pa through or are borne upon the center of the shield. E IMG:content-0748.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0749.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Coincident in time; contemporary; synchronous: followed by with. A transcript of an original manuscript coeval with the time of the "Cid." Pre scott , Ferd. and Isa., Int. =Syn. Coeval , Contemporaneous . Coeval is more commonly applied to things, contemporaneous to persons; but the distinction is not a rigid one. And yet some kind of intercourse of neighboring states is so natural, that it must have been coeval with their foundation, and with the origin of law. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law., § 59. The unfo iliferous rocks in question [Cam brian] were not only contemporaneous in the geological sense, but synchronous in the chronological sense. Huxley, Lay Sermons, p. 298. A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity. H. B. Wallace, Recoll. of Man of the World, II. 89. II. n. One of the same age or period; a contemporary in age or active existence. O my coevals! remnants of yourselves, Poor human ruins tottering o'er the grave. Young , Night Thoughts, iv. 109. He is forlorn among his coevals ; his juniors cannot be his friends. Lamb , Old and New Schoolmaster. All great authors seem the coevals not only of each other, but of whoever reads them. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 177. coevoust (kō-ē'vus), a. [= Sp. It. coevo, Supposing some other things coevous to it. South , Sermons. coexecutor (kō-eg-zek'ū-tor), n. [ coex ecutor, L. co- , together, + ML. executor , executor.] A joint executor. co-1 + establishment. ] Joint establishment. A coestablishment of the teachers of different sects of Christians. Bp. Watson, Charge, 1791.