computet (komput)

[ In our common compute he hath been come these many IMG:content-0958.png:[blocks in formation] The purely theoretical part of Comte's Positive Religion is unfortunately mixed up with a great ma of practical details referring to the ritual of Comtian worship, which may be more entertaining, but are le interesting, because more arbitrary, than the theory. N. A. Rev. , CXX. 261. Comtism (kôn′tizm), n. [ Comte + -ism , after F. Comtisme .] The philosophical system found ed by Auguste Comte; positivism. See pos i tive philosophy , under positive . To deny the po ibility of any single starting-point: to take, in default of such, "Man" and "The World" as the only two positive and knowable data; to infer the Supreme Being as implied in them and presupposing both: and to investigate the intellectual, physical, and moral laws underlying these data, by means of the inductive method conned, ppr. conning. conning. [Early mod. E. also cun; appar. a particular use of con1 in the sense of 'know how, can, a verb ( steer ) being omitted: ef. "They conne nought here shippes stere " (Gower, Conf. Amant., I. 59). See con con1, and cf. con2.] Naut.: (a) To direct (the man at the helm of a ve el) how to steer. The four Chinese helmsmen, conned by the English quartermasters, upping with the helm and downing with it. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, I. 95. (b) To give orders for the steering of: as, to con a ship. He that cund ye ship before ye sea, was faine to be bound fast for washing away. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 140. I could con or fight a ship as well as ever. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, viii. con3, conn (kon or kun), n. [ The tittering of the other midshipmen and the quartermaster at the conn . Marryat , Frank Mildmay, iv. The first lieutenant, then at the conn , where, though wounded, he had remained throughout the fight. The Century, XXXII. 451. (b) The act of conning. cont. A variant of can3 , for gan , preterit of gin1 , begin. See can3 , gin1. Then Pirrus by purpos prestly [quickly] con wende Into Delphon. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 13705. con5 (kon). An abbreviation of the Latin con tra, against (see contra ), especially common in the phrase pro and con (Latin pro et contra ), for and against, in favor of and opposed to: sometimes used as a noun, with a plural, the pros and cons, the arguments, or arguers, or voters, for and against a proposition. Of many knotty points they spoke; And pro and con by turns they took. Prior , Alma, i. that is the e ence of Comtism . N. A. Rev. , CXX. 238. form of com- . con amore (kon ä-mō're). [It.: con, am or , love: see com and am or.] With love; with sympathetic enthu- siasm or zeal; with strong liking; heartily. He expatiated con amore on the charms of Florence. H. James, Jr., Pa . Pilgrim, p. 270. = Sp. Pg. brio = Pr. briu = OF. bri , vivacity, force; perhaps of Celtic origin: cf. OIr. brig = Gael. brigh , vigor, force.] In music , with spirit and force. con came rate (kon-kam'e-rāt), v . t .; pret. and pp. con camerated , ppr. con came rating . [ con came rare , arch over, con- (intensive) + came rare , arch: see camber2 , chamber, v., came rate.] 1. To arch over; vault. [Rare.] The roofe whereof [a hall] is very loftily con camerated and adorned with many exquisite pictures. IMG:content-0959.png:[blocks in formation] The inside of these hot-houses are divided into many cells and con camerations. Sir T. Herbert , Travels, p. 164. 3. In zoöl . , the state of being con camerated or multilocular. concatenate (kon-kat'e-nāt), v . t .; pret. and pp. concatenated, ppr. concatenating . [ catenatus , pp. of concatenare (> It.concatenare = parietal foramina, indicate the extension of the conarial tube to the surface, and the formation there of a visual or other special-sense organ. On this view, the conarium is the vestige of an extinct eye. See conarium . conario-hypophysial (kō-nāri-ō-hi-po-fiz'- i-al), a . [ conarium + hypophysis + -al .] In an at ., pertaining to the conarium and to the hypophysis of the cerebrum, or to the pineal and pituitary bodies. An epithet applied by Sir R. Owen to a tract through which these two structures are placed in communication in the embryo, the conario -hypo- physial tract being primitively a part of the general cœlian cavity of the brain. hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece? Paley , Nat. Theol. conaxial (kon-ak'si-al), a . [ con- + axial .] 1. Having the axes of rotation or of figure co- incident, as two bodies.-2. Having a common axis: said of superposed cylinders or cones. As hardne [of steel] decreases, the density of the ele- a chain, > ult. E. chain : see catena , catenate , and chain.] To link together; unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another. Clothed in the purple of his cumbrous diction and the cadences of his concatenated periods. I. D'Israeli , Amen. of Lit., II. 227. concatenate (kon-kat'e-nat), a. [= Sp. Pg. con catena do = It. con catena to , L.con cate nat us , pp.: see the verb.] Linked together in a chain or series; concatenated; specifically, in entom ., united at the base: applied to spines or other proce es when their bases are joined by ridges or raised lines. The elements be so concatenate. Ashmole, Poem in The at rum Chemicum. concatenation (kon-kat-e-na's hon), n . [F. concaténation = Sp. con catena cion = Pg. conca- ten ação = It. con cate nazi one , nare , link together: see concatenate , v.] 1. The s state of being concatenated or linked together; a relation of interconnection or interdepen- dence. I never could help admiring the concatenation between Achitophel's setting his house in order, and hanging him- self. The one seems to follow the other as a matter of Scott , Diary, May 13, 1827. To hear the replication of your sounds, Made in her concave shores. Shak., J. C., i. 1. For his verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 4. Concave brick. See brick2. Concave leaf, in bot . , a leaf with its edge raised above the disk. Concave lens, in optics , a lens having either one or both sides concave. See lens . - Concave mir- ror, in optics . See mirror. II. n. [L. concavum , neut. of concavus : see I.] 1. A hollow; an arch or vault; a concavity. IMG:content-0960.png:[blocks in formation] concavely (kon'kāv-li), adv . So as to be con- cave; in a concave manner. concavene (kon'kāv-nes), n. Hollowne ; concavity. Johnson. concavity (kon-kav'i-ti), n.; pl. concavities (-tiz). [= F. concavité = Pr. concavitat = Sp. concavidad = Pg. concavidade = It. concavità, concavus , concave: see concave , a.] 1. The state of being concave; hollowne .-2. A concave surface, or the space contained in it; the internal surface of a hollow curved body, or the space within such body; any hollow space which is more or le spherical. The concavities of the shells wherein they were moulded. Woodward, E ay towards a Nat. Hist. of the Earth. Look upon the outside of a dome, your eye half sur- rounds it; look up into the inside, and at one glance you have all the prospect of it; the entire con- cavity falls into your eye at once. concavo-concave (kon-kā'vō-kon'- kāv), a. Concave or hollow on both surfaces, as a lens. Lenses of this kind are more frequently termed double - concave lenses. See Concavo-concave lens . concavo-convex (kon-kā'vō-konveks), a. Con- cave on one side and convex on the other. A con- cavo - convex lens is a lens in which the convex face has a smaller curvature than the con- cave face, so that the former tends con- stantly away from the latter. See convex . 2. A series of things united like links in a chain; any series of interconnected or interde- pendent things or events: as, “a concatenation concavus , hollow: see concave , a .] tance above the subtending bract. concauset (kon-kaz'), n. [= Sp. It. concausa , joint cause; as con- + cause .] A joint cause. Fother by . con cava tion (kon-ka-vā'shon), n . [ concavatio (n-), concavare , pp. concavatus, make concave, concavus , concave: see con- cave, a.] The act of making concave. concave (kon'kāv), a . and n. [= D. konkaaf = G. concav = Dan. Sw. konkav , F.concave = Pr. concau = Sp. cóncavo Pg. It. concavo , concavus , hollow, arched, vaulted, com- + cavus , hollow: see cavel .] I. a. 1. Curved or rounded in the manner of the circumference of a circle or the surface of a sphere when viewed from the center; presenting a hollow or IMG:content-0961.png:[blocks in formation] The dolphin that carrieth Arion is concavously inverted. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 2. conceal (kon-sel'), v . t. [ con- ceilen, concheler , concelare , hide, celare (> F. celer = Pr. celar = Sp. celar = Pg. calar = It. celare ), hide, = AS. helan , E. heal , hide, cover: see heal2 .] 1. To hide; withdraw, remove, or shield from observation; cover or keep from sight; secrete: as, a party of men concealed themselves behind a wall; his face was con- cealed by a mask. sus , go with, give way, yield, grant, com- , with, + cedere , go, cede, grant: see cede . Hence con- ce ion, etc.] I. trans. 1. To make a conces- sion of; grant as a right or a privilege; yield up; allow: as, the government conceded the My gracious lord, that which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal. Shak ., T. G. of V., iii. 1. The absolute dependent of a despotic will is more apt to conceal than expre the real emotions of his heart towards that will. H. James , Subs. and Shad., p. 164. Concealed land. Same as concealment , 5. And search him like conceal'd land , but I'll have him. Fletcher (and another ), Love's Pilgrimage, iii. 3. =Syn. Conceal , Hide , Secrete , screen, cover, cloak, dis- guise, di emble. To conceal and to hide may be to put or keep out of sight, literally or figuratively; to secrete is to put out of sight literally. Conceal implies least of ac- tion, and hide le than secrete. Conceal and hide may be used by a sort of personification where secrete could not be employed: as, a cave concealed by bushes; a cottage hidden amid woods. See di emble . IMG:content-0962.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To admit as true, just, or proper; admit; grant; acquiesce in, either by direct a ent or by silent acceptance. See conce ion . A umed as a principle to prove another thing which is not conceded as true itself. Sir T. Browne , Vulg. Err., i. 4. We concede that self-love is the strongest and most natural love of man. Hewyt , Sermons, p. 93. Conceding for a moment that the government is bound to educate a man's children, then, what kind of logic will demonstrate that it is not bound to feed and clothe them? H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 362. concedence (kon-se'dens), n . [ concede + -ence.] The act of conceding; conce ion. [Rare.] All I had to apprehend was that a daughter so reluc- tantly carried off would offer terms to her father, and would be accepted upon a mutual concedence : they to give up Solmes, she to give up me. Richardson, Clari a Harlowe, iii. 116. conceder (kon-sēʼdėr), n . One who concedes. conceiptt, n. and r. An obsolete spelling of conceit. own acutene , wit, learning, etc.; self-con- ceit: as, a man inflated with conceit . Plumed with conceit. Cotton, Fable. So spake he, clouded with his own conceit . Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur. Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit , but varies in correspondence with the minu- tiæ of mental make in which one of us differs from an- other. George Eliot, Middle march, I. 165. 7t. A fanciful or ingenious device or invention. Neuer carde, for silks or sumpteous cost, For cloth of gold, or tinsel figurie, Gas coigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 71. Bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits , Knacks, trifles. Shak ., M. N. D., i. 1. react and influence the understanding. [Early mod. E. also con- There are as many hells as Anaxarchus conceited worlds. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, i. 51. ceyt , consayt , also, as rarely in late ME., conceipt , conceipte (with pinserted in imitation of the orig. L. conceptus ); ceyte , conseyte , conceit (not found), later degenerate children, coached them ide gen also concept = Sp. concepto = Pg. conceito = It. concetto, L.con conceptus , a collecting, taking, con- ceiving, a thought, purpose (whence directly E. concept , q. v.), concipere , pp. conceptus , take in, conceive: see conceive , and cf. concept , con- cet to , doublets of conceit . For the form, cf. de- ceit, receit , the three forms being also spelled, corruptly, conceipt , deceipt , receipt , the last be- ing now the current form.) 14. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; conception; idea; thought; image. In laughing there ever precedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous, and therefore it is proper to man. Bacon, Nat. Hist. I do feel conceits coming upon me, more than I am able to turn tongue to. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. The Conceit of Honour is a great Encouragement to Virtue. Howell , Letters, iv. 36. Our ancestors were not such fools, after all, as we, their Barham , In golds by