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[Lat.=a haranguer of the people, a demagogue, an agitator.] A common councilman, a freeman. ( Wharton.) con-çi-on-a-tōr-ў, α. [Lat. concionarius, con cion at or i us.] Used in public a emblies or at preachings. ". their con cion a tory invectives."- Howel . *con-çip'-i-ent, a. [Lat. concipiens , pr. par. of concipio to conceive.] Conceiving. "By puffs concipient some in ether flit." J. & H. Smith: Rejected Addre es , p. 140. côn-çise', a. [Fr. concis (m.), concise (f.); Lat. concisus cut short, brief, pa. par. of concido to cut short, to abridge: con = cum =with, together; cædo = to cut.] Short, brief, condensed, and comprehensive; terse, succinct, not diffuse (used of lan guage, style, .). the same Spartan, calmly dre ing his hair and uttering his concise jests, " -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., IMG:content-0479.png:[blocks in formation] con-çise'-ne , s . [Eng. concise; -ne .] The quality of being concise; brevity, tersene , suc- cinctne . Macaulay once th the noble concisene of those ancient legends con-çi-şion, s. [Fr. & Sp. concision; Port.con- cisão : Ital. concisione ; Prov.concisio . From Lat. concisionem, acc us. of concisio (rhet.) the separat ing of a clauso into two divisions; concisus divided, pa. par. of concido to cut up, to cut to pieces, to destroy: con and cædo to cause to fall, to hew, to cut; cado =to fall.] †1. Of style: Concisene . 2. Of sects, factions , or factious individuals : (1) Scripture: The rendering given both in the Authorized and in the Revised versions of the the Testament to Gr. kata to men in Philip. iii. he term contemptuously applied by St. Paul to the Judaizing teachers in the Philip pian Church, who insisted on the nece ity of the Christians, Jews and Gentiles being circumcised. His argument is: The circumcision which they recommend you, having now lost its spiritual significance, I contemptuously call concision-i.e., mangling of body; we true circumcision, we have that bod there have the IMG:content-0480.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0481.png:[blocks in formation] II. Eccles.: For the two senses in which the term conclave is used, see I. 1. 2. Pope Nicol a us II., in the eleventh century, and Alexander III., in the twelfth, having limited the right of electing a pope to the college of cardinals, in 1268, on the death of Clement IV., the electors could not for nearly three years agree upon a succe or; and in 1271 the mag ist rates, acting on the advice of St. Bonaventura, locked them up till they could agree, which confine ment made them do before long. The succe of the scheme led to its becoming a settled institution, and it still continues. The appropriate place for shutting up the cardinal electors is a range of small cells in the Vatican, or some other pontifical palace, though a conclave may be held elsewhere; thus Pius VII. was elected at Venice. Formerly the practice was to limit the electors to a single dish at dinner and the same at supper if they did not agree within three days, and to a small allow. ance of bread, water, and wine, if the eighth day saw their deliberations still unfinished. Gregory XV. regulated the conclave by a bull i ued in 1621, and Urban VI. by one sent forth in 1625.