conqueror (kongkeror)

[ military power. IMG:content-1099.png:[blocks in formation] The mighty disturbers of mankind who have been called Conquer ours shall not then be attended with their great armies, but must stand alone to receive their sentence. Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. xi. The Conqueror, an epithet applied to William I., King of England and Duke of Normandy, on account of his conquest of England in 1066. As originally applied, how 1202 quist a, Conquest and good husbandry both enlarge the king's dominions: the one by the sword, making the acres more in number; the other by the plough, making the same acres more in value. Fuller. In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. Add is on, The Campaign. 2. The act of acquiring or gaining control of by force; acquisition by military or other conflict; subjugation by any means: as, the con quest of Persia by Alexander the Great; the conquest of a nation's liberties, or of one's pas sions. Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. Pre scott. Specifically-3. The act of gaining or captivating the affections or favor of another or others. Nature did her wrong, To print continual conquest on her cheeks, And make no man worthy for her to take. Beau. and Fl ., King and No King, i. 1. I confe you have made a perfect conquest of me by your late Favours, and I yield myself your Captive. Howell, Letters, I. ii. 23. 4. That which is conquered; a po e ion gained by force, physical or moral. What conquest brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome? For much more willingly I mention air, This our old conquest , than remember hell. consciernice blood: see consanguineous.] I. a. Descended from a common ancestor; consanguineous: as, "the Consanguine Family," Encyc. Brit., IX. 22. II. n. One of the same blood as, or related by birth to, another. The progre from promiscuity through the marriage of con sanguines, then upward to the various forms of polyandry and polygyny to monogamy. Smithsonian Report, 1880, p. 400. cons an gui neal (kon-sang-gwin'e-al), a. [As consanguine + -al.] Consanguineous. Sir T. Browne.