confolensiite

department of Charente, at St. Jean de Cole, near Thiviers, in France; with suff. -ite ( Min .).] Min.: A pale rose-red variety of Montmorillonite A. As adjective : ance. IMG:content-0567.png:[blocks in formation] B. Intransitive : I. Ordinary Language: *1. To unite, to join. "When elements to elements conform." Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , iii. 74. 2. To comply with, a ent to, or obey; to yield; to be in harmony or accord with. (Generally followed by to , but occasionally by with .) "The stubborn arms (by Jove's command dispos'd) Conform'd spontaneous, and around him clos'd." Pope : Homer's Iliad , bk. xvii., 1. 247-48. "He would conform to the letter of his instructions."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng., ch. xv. to worship in the Church of England according to II. Ecclesiol . & Ch . Hist .: To consent personally the forms legally in use there. For the difference between to conform and to comply , see COMPLY. icon-form-a-bil-i-ty, s. [Eng. conformable; IMG:content-0568.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0569.png:[blocks in formation] strata, speaking broadly, is complete; but a great lapse of time, of which no record has been preserved, at least at this spot, has taken place where unconform ability occurs. The former is a book with the pages consecutive; the latter is one with a great many leaves at one place torn out. A vast lapse of time occurred between the deposition of F and D, during which the lower strata were lifted up to the high angle at which they now stand; there was a much briefer period between the deposition of Dand A. Crabb thus discriminates between conformable , agreeable, and suitable : "The decisions of a judge must be strictly conformable to the letter of the law; he is seldom at liberty to consult his views of equity: the decision of a partisan is always agree able to the temper of his party: the style of a writer should be suitable to his subject. Conformable is most commonly employed for matters of temporary moment; agreeable and suitable are mostly said of things which are of constant value: we make things conformable by an act of discretion; they are agree able or suitable by their own nature; a treaty of peace is made conformable to the preliminaries; a legislator must take care to frame laws agreeably to the Divine law; it is of no small importance for every man to act suitably to the character he has a umed." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) con-form-a-ble-ne , 8. [Eng. conformable: -ne .] The quality or state of being conformable; conformability. con-form-a-bly, adv. [Eng. conformabl (e); -y.] 1. In a conformable manner; agreeably, suitably, correspondingly. "So a man observe the agreement of his own imagi. nations, and talk conformably , it is all certainty."-Locke. 2. Generally followed by to , but sometimes by IMG:content-0570.png:[merged small][ocr errors] their acting conformably to the law and nature conformo.] Conformity. con-form-ançe, s. [Lat.con for mans, pr. par. of of God."- Bp. Beveridge, vol. i., Serm. 39.