Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: CON-NECTION – CON'NU-SANT
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CON-NECTION, n. [L. connexio; It. connessione. See Connect.]
- The act of joining or state of being joined; a state of being knit or fastened together; union by junction, by an intervening substance or medium, by dependence or relation, or by order in a series; a word of very general import. There is a connection of links in a chain; a connection between all parts of the human body; a connection between virtue and happiness, and between this life and the future; a connection between parent and child, master and servant, husband and wife; between motives and actions, and between actions and their consequences. In short, the word is applicable to almost every thing that has a dependence on or relation to another thing.
- A relation by blood or marriage.
- An association, or united body; as, the Methodist connection.
CON-NEC'TIVE, a.
Having the power of connecting.
CON-NEC'TIVE, n.
In grammar, a word that connect other words and sentences; a conjunction. Harris uses the word for conjunctions and prepositions. – Hermes.
CON-NEC'TIVE-LY, adv.
In union or conjunction; jointly. – Swift.
CON-NEX', v.t. [L. connexum.]
To link together; to join. [Not in use.] Hall.
CON-NEX'ION, n.
Connection. But for the sake of regular analogy, I have inserted Connection, as the derivative of the English connect, and would discard connexion.
CON-NEX'IVE, a.
Connective; having the power to connect; uniting; conjunctive; as, connexive particles. [Little used.] – Watts.
CON-NIV'ANCE, n. [See Connive.]
Properly, the act of winking. Hence figuratively, voluntary blindness to an act; intentional forbearance to see a fault or other act, generally implying consent to it. Every vice interprets a connivance to be approbation. – South.
CON-NIVE', v.i. [L. conniveo, connivi or connixi; con and the root of nicto, to wink. Class Ng.]
- To wink; to close and open the eyelids rapidly. – Spectator.
- In a figurative sense, to close the eyes upon a fault or other act; to pretend ignorance or blindness; to forbear to see; to overlook a fault or other act, and suffer it to pass unnoticed, uncensured or unpunished; as, the father connives at the vices of his son.
CON-NIV'EN-CY, n.
Connivance – which see. – Bacon.
CON-NIV'ENT, a.
- Shutting the eyes; forbearing to see. – Milton.
- In anatomy, the connivent valves are those wrinkles, cellules and vascules, which are found on the inside of the two intestines, ileum and jejunum. – Encyc.
- In botany, closely united; converging together. – Eaton.
CON-NIV'ER, n.
One who connives.
CON-NIV'ING, ppr.
Closing the eyes against faults; permitting faults to pass uncensored.
CON-NOIS-SEUR', n. [connissu're ; Fr. from the verb connoitre, from L. cognosco, to know.]
A person well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge or master of any art, particularly of painting and sculpture.
The skill of a connoisseur.
CON'NO-TATE, v.t. [con and note, L. noto, notatus.]
To designate with something else; to imply. [Little used.] – Hammond.
CON'NO-TA-TED, pp.
Designated.
CON'NO-TA-TING, ppr.
Designating.
CON-NO-TA'TION, n.
The act of making known or designating with something; implication of something beside itself; inference. [Little used.] – Hale.
CON-NOTE', v.t. [L. con and nota; noto, to mark. See Note.]
To make known together; to imply; to denote or designate; to include. [Little used.] – South.
CON-NOT'ED, pp.
Denoted.
CON-NU'BI-AL, a. [L. connubialis; from connubium; con and nubo, to marry.]
Pertaining to marriage; nuptial; belonging to the state of husband and wife; as, connubial rites; connubial love.
A reckoning together. – Porson.
CON'NU-SANCE, n. [Fr. connoissance, from connoitre, to know, L. cognosco.]
Knowledge. [See Cognizance.]
CON'NU-SANT, a.
Knowing; informed; apprised. A neutral vessel, breaking a blockade, is liable to confiscation, if connusant of the blockade. – Browne.