conscionable ness (konshonablnes)

The character of being conscionable; rightfulne ; equity; fairne . [Rare.] conscionablyt (kon's hon-a-bli), adv. Conscientiously; according to conscience. This duty you both may the more willingly, and ought the more conscionably to perform. consciousne 4. Present to consciousne ; known or perceived as existing in one's self; felt: as, conscious guilt. When they list, into the womb That bred them they return, and howl and gnaw My bowels, their repast; then, bursting forth Afresh, with conscious terrours vex me round, That rest or intermi ion none I find. Milton , P. L., ii. 801. The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happine of having acted with humanity ourselves. Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, iii. The conscious thrill of shame. M. Arnold, Isolation. 5. Aware of an object; perceiving. ( a ) Aware of an internal object; aware of a thought, feeling, or volition. Let us retire into ourselves, and become conscious of our own nature and of its high destination. Channing, Perfect Life, p. 18. To say that I am conscious of a feeling is merely to say that I feel it. To have a feeling is to be conscious, and to be conscious is to have a feeling. To be conscious of the prick of a pin is merely to have the sensation. James Mill, Human Mind, v. When he [August us Cæsar] died, he desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite, as if he were conscious to himself that he had played his part well upon the stage. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. A tenderne which he was conscious that he had not merited. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xxii. (b) Aware of an external object: a le correct use of the term: followed in either use by of or that, formerly by to or to one's self that. Were not two of the Jesuits who were conscious of the Plot [conspiracy] preferred afterwards at Rome? Stilling fleet, Sermons, II. ii. Slowly and conscious of the raging eye That watch'd him Went Leolin. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. IMG:content-1102.png:[blocks in formation] =Syn. To be Sensible or Conscious, etc. (see feel ). Aware, Conscious. Aware refers commonly to objects of perception outside of ourselves; conscious, to objects of perception within us: as, to become aware of the presence of a stranger; to be quite aware of the danger of one's situation; to become conscious of a pain in one's eye. Aware indicates perception without feeling; conscious, generally recognition with some degree of feeling. consciously (kon's hus-li), adv. In a conscious manner; with knowledge or intention. If these perceptions, with their consciousne , always remained present in the mind, the same thinking thing would be always consciously present. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxvii. 10. All the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce. Emerson , Art. consciousne (kon's hus-nes), n. 1. The state of being conscious; the act or state of mind which distinguishes a waking from a sleeping person; the state of being aware of one's mental acts or states. Consciousne is the perception of what pa es in a man's own mind. Locke , Human Understanding, II. i. 19. Consciousne is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or "ego" of its acts and affections - in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me and that these modifications are mine. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xi. We can imagine consciousne without self-consciousne , still more without introspection, much as we can imagine sight without taste or smell. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 37. Consciousne is briefly defined as the power by which the soul knows its own acts and states. N. Porter, Human Intellect, § 67. broadest sense of the word. When the dread trumpet sounds, the slumbering dust, Not unattentive to the call, shall wake. Nor shall the conscious soul Mistake its partner. Blair , The Grave, 1. 755. The moment the first trace of conscious intelligence is introduced, we have a set of phenomena which materialism can in no wise account for. J. Fiske , Evolutionist, p. 282. 2. Attributing, or capable of attributing, one's sensations, cognitions, etc., to one's self; aware of the unity of self in knowledge; aware of one's self; self-conscious. This self of the "inner state," of which, according to and cannot (as indeed nothing can, according to his sysKant, we are conscious, is only known as a phenomenon, tem) be known as it is in itself. N. Porter, Human Intellect, § 80. 3. Having one's feelings directed toward one's Bacon , Advancement of Learning. self; embarra ed by one's feelings about one's Conscient to himself that he played his part well. The most complex conscient acts. Alien. and Neurol ., VI. 509. conscientious (kon-gi-en's hus), a . [= F. con sciencieux = Pg.consciencioso = It. coscienzioso , , conscient i a , conscience: see conscience.] 1t. Conscious. own person, and by the sense of being observed and criticized by others. The conscious water saw its God and blushed. R. Crashaw , Epigrams. A large, handsome man I remember him, a little con scious in his bearing, but courteous, hospitable, and openhanded. T. Winthrop, Cecil Dreeme, ix. see). Since consciousne always accompanies thinking, and it is that that makes every one to be what he calls "self," and thereby distinguishes himself from all other thinking things; in this alone consists personal identity. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxvii. 9. 3. Perception; thought; intellectual action in general. Consciousne is a comprehensive term for the complement of all our cognitive energies. Sir W. Hamilton . Though consciousne should cease, the physicist would consider the sum total of objects to remain the same; the orange would still be round, yellow, and fragrant as before. J. Ward , Encyc. Brit., XX. 38. 4. A general phase of thought and feeling: as, the moral consciousne ; the religious conscious ne . I had read of the British tramp, but I had never yet encountered him, and I brought my historic consciousne to bear upon the present specimen. H. James, Jr .. Pa . Pilgrim, p. 31. In the course of the tenth century. a faint consciousne of distinct national life was felt in Italy, Germany, France, and England. C. E. Norton , Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 6. Unlike the ordinary consciousne , the religious consciousne is concerned with that which lies beyond the sphere of sense. H. Spencer , Pop. Sci. Mo., XXIV. 340. conscript (kon's kript), a . and n. [F. conscrit = Sp. Pg. con scrip to = It. cons crit to = D. con- scrit, conscript us , enrolled, chosen, elect, pp. of conscribere , enroll: see conscribe .] I. a. Registered; enrolled. - Conscript fathers, a com- mon English rendering of the Latin phrase patres conscrip- ti (fathers [and] conscripts), used in addre ing the senate of ancient Rome. Senators were of two cla es, patres , 'fathers,' or patrician nobles, and conscript i , or those 'elected' from the equestrian orders. Fathers conscript , may this our present meeting Turn fair and fortunate to the commonwealth! Anglican churches, to initiate solemnly into the order of bishops, as a priest. See consecration , 2 (a).-3. To devote or dedicate from profound feeling or a religious motive: as, his life was consecrated to the service of the poor. I dedicate, I consecrate with tears - These Idylls. Tennyson, Ded. of Idylls of the King. 4. To make revered or worshiped, or highly regarded; hallow: as, a custom consecrated by time.. He [Christ] clothed himself in their affections, and they admitted him to their sorrows, and his presence conse- crated their joys. J. Martin eau. A ki can consecrate the ground, Where mated hearts are mutual bound. To enroll among the saints; canonize. =Syn. 1 and 3. Devote, Dedicate , etc. See devote . consecrate (kon'sē-krāt), a. [L. con sec ratus, pp.: see the verb.] Sacred; consecrated; de- voted; dedicated. [Obsolete or poetical.] Also in Cyprys is Paphon, that was a temple consecrate to Venus. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 15. A embled in that consecrate place. Bacon , Hist. Hen. VII. Th' imperial seat; to virtue consecrate. Shak ., Tit. And., i. 1. consecratedne (kon'sē-krā-ted-nes), n. The state of being consecrated. Rev. R. Cecil. [Rare.] consecration (kon-se-krā'shon), n. [ secracioun = F. consécration = Pr. consecracion = Sp. consagracion , consecracion = Pg. cons a- gração = It. consagrazione , consacrazione , con- secrazione, L.con sec ratio (n-), con sec rare , pp. con sec ratus, consecrate: see consecrate, v.] 1. The act of consecrating, or separating from a common to a sacred use; the act of devoting or dedicating a person or thing to the service and worship of God by certain rites or solemnities: as, the consecration of the priests among the Is- raelites; the consecration of the ve els used in the temple; the consecration of the elements in the eucharist; the consecration of a church. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemn- South . ly declares it so. Specifically -2. Eccles .: (a) The act of con- ferring upon a priest the powers and authority of a bishop; the rite or ceremony of elevation to the episcopate. Greek and other Oriental churches, and in the Anglican Church, imposition of hands by a bishop for the pur- pose of making the candidate a bishop is held to be e en- to consecration, and the rule is that at least three bishops shall unite in the act, as directed by the fourth canon of the first Council of Nicæa, A. D. 325. Only papal authority could loose the tie that bound the bishop to the church of his consecration . wine. According to the Roman Catholic and the Angli- can Church the e ential act of eucharistic consecration consists in the recital of the words of institution over the elements by a priest. (c) The prayer used to con- secrate the eucharistic elements. In its fullest form it consists of three parts: (1) the institution ; (2) the oblation, called distinctively the great oblation ; and (3) the epiclesis or invocation. (d) The act of placing a particle of the consecrated bread or host in the chalice; the commixture (which see).-3. Devotion or dedication from deep feeling, especially from a religious motive: as, of God, or of one's energies to the search for truth.-4. In Rom . hist ., the ceremony of the apotheosis of an emperor. - Consecration-cro , a cro cut or painted upon the walls of a church, the slab of an altar, etc. It has been canonical at different times to make a given number of these cro es, as, for instance, in the middle ages, five upon the altar-slab, one in the middle and one at each of the four corners, and, as stated by some authors, twelve upon the walls of a church when newly built, either within or without. It was customary to consecrate each of these cro es with chrism, and to re- cite a special prayer, and perhaps to incense each one; in some cases the cro was cut subsequently in a place which Consecutions... evidently found in the premises. Sir M. Hale. occur between voices or parts that pa from one chord to another in parallel mo- tion. Also called parallel inter- vals . Consecutive thirds and sixths are agreeable; consecutive fourths, disagreeable; while con- secutive perfect fifths or octaves (or unisons) are usually forbidden. Consecutive fifths and octaves (or unisons) are covered or hidden when the fifth or octave is reached by similar but not parallel motion; such progre ions are rarely ob- jectionable, except when occurring between the outer, most conspicu- ous voices, and not then if one of consecutive the voices moves only a semitone. - Consecutive particle, in logic, a conjunction implying logical consecution: as, then, so, therefore, etc. - Consecutive points of a curve, coincident points of tangency of coincident tangents. Thus, the tangent to a curve at a node is said to meet the curve in three coincident points, of which two are not only coincident, but (what is more than coincident) consecutive. This means that a right line cutting the curve in three points may by a continuous motion be brought into coincidence with the tangent at the node, the three points in this motion running up into one, and the motion of two of them being, at the limit, entirely along the tangent. - Consecutive poles, in magnetism. See magnet.- Consecutive symptoms, in pathol., symptoms that appear on the ce ation or during the decline of a disease, but which have no direct or evident connection with the primary ailment. II. n. pl. In music, consecutive intervals; usually, the forbidden progre ion of consecutive or parallel fifths or octaves.- Covered con secutives, in music, a progre ion of two voices to a unison, octave, or perfect fifth by similar but not parallel motion, suggesting the forbidden progre ion of consecutive unisons, octaves, or fifths. Also called hidden consecutives. The particular interval is also called covered or hidden: as, covered octaves, covered fifths. consecutively (kon-sek'ū-tiv-li), adv. In a consecutive manner; in regular succe ion; succe ively.