conformist (kon for mist)

[ The case is the same if the husband should be the con for mist ; though how the law is to operate in this case I do not see: for the act expre ly says that the child shall be taken from such Popish parent. Burke , Popery Laws. Special theological bias warps the judgments of Conform ists and Nonconformists among ourselves. H. Spencer , Study of Sociol., p. 300. conformity (kon-form i-ti), n. [F. conform ité = Pr. conform it at = Sp. conform i dad = Pg. con formidade = It. conform ità , confor mit a ( t- ) s , conform is , like, similar: see conform , a.] 1. Correspondence in form or manner; resemblance; agreement; congruity; likene ; harmony: in this and the next meaning, followed by to or with before the object with which another agrees, and in before the matter in which there is agreement: as, a ship is constructed in conformity to or with a model; con for mity in shape. Man amongst the creatures of this inferior world aspireth to the greatest conformity with God. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 5. Men act in sleep with some conformity unto their awaked Sir T. Browne, Dreams. senses. Space and duration have a great conformity in this, that they are justly reckoned among our simple ideas. Locke. Our knowledge is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. Thus the idea of whitene , or bitterne , as it is in the mind, exactly answering that power which is in any body to produce it there, has all the real conformity it can or ought to have with things without us. And this conformity between our simple ideas and the existence of things is sufficient for real knowledge. Locke, Human Understanding, iv. 4. confound 2. Submi ion; accordance; acquiescence. We cannot be otherwise happy but by our conformity to God. Til lots on. In Conformity to your commands,... I have sent your Ladyship this small Hymn for Christmas-Day. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 13. The virtue in most request is conformity.. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Emerson, Self-reliance. 3. In Eng. hist., adherence to the Established Church, or compliance with its requirements and principles. Full conformity was required by so called acts of uniformity pa ed by Parliament in 1558 (extended in 1593) and 1662, all other forms of worship be and observance of made punishable by deprivation of legal rights, imprisonment death. These laws were enforced with varying degrees of rigor, but were greatly relaxed in terms at the revolution of 1688; and by later enactments the disabilities created by them have been almost wholly removed. See di enter and nonconformist. A proclamation requiring all ecclesiastical and civil officers to do their duty by enforcing conformity . Hallam . Bill of conformity, in law , a phrase sometimes used for a bill in chancery against creditors, generally for the mar shaling of a ets and adjustment of debts, filed by an ex ecutor or administrator who finds the affairs of his testator or intestate so much involved that he cannot safely administer the estate except under the direction of the court of chancery. - Oath of conformity and obedience. See oath.