Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-COCT'ED, pp.

Digested; purified; ripened.

CON-COCT'ING, ppr.

Digesting; purifying; ripening.

CON-COC'TION, n. [L. concoctio.]

1. Digestion or solution in the stomach; the process by which food is turned into chyle, or otherwise prepared to nourish the body; the change which food undergoes in the stomach. – Coxe. Encyc.
2. Maturation; the process by which morbid matter is separated from the blood or humors, or otherwise changed and prepared to be thrown off.
3. A ripening; the acceleration of any thing toward perfection. – Johnson.

CON-COC'TIVE, a.

Digesting; having the power of digesting or ripening. – Milton.

CON'COL-OR, a.

Of one color. [Not in use.] – Brown.

CON-COM'I-TANCE, or CON-COM'I-TAN-CY, n. [L. con and comitor, to accompany, from comes, a companion. See Count.]

A being together, or in connection with another thing. The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other. – Brown.

CON-COM'I-TANT, a.

Accompanying; conjoined with; concurrent; attending. It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects … a concomitant pleasure. – Locke.

CON-COM'I-TANT, n.

A companion; a person or thing that accompanies another, or is collaterally connected. It is seldom applied to persons. The other concomitant of ingratitude is hard-heartedness. – South. Reproach is a concomitant to greatness. – Addison.

CON-COM'I-TANT-LY, adv.

In company with others. – Pearson.

CON-COM'I-TATE, v.t.

To accompany or attend; to be collaterally connected. [Not used.] – Harvey.

CON'CORD, n. [Fr. concorde; L. concordia, from concors, of con and cor, cordis, the heart. See Accord.]

1. Agreement between persons; union in opinions, sentiments, views or interests; peace; harmony. What concord hath Christ with Belial? – 2 Cor. vi.
2. Agreement between things; suitableness; harmony. If, nature's concord broke, / Among the constellations, war were sprung. – Milton.
3. In music, consent of sounds; harmony; the relation between two or more sounds which are agreeable to the ear. [See Chord.] The man who hath not music in himself, / Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, / Is fit for treasons. – Shak.
4. A compact; an agreement by stipulation; treaty. – Davies.
5. In law, an agreement between the parties in a fine, made by leave of the court. This is an acknowledgment from the deforciants that the land in question is the right of the complainant. – Blackstone.
6. In grammar, agreement of words in construction; as, adjectives with nouns in gender, number and case; or verbs with nouns or pronouns in number and person. Or concord may signify the system of tubes for construction called syntax. Form of concord, in ecclesiastical history, is a book among the Lutherans containing a system of doctrines to be subscribed as a condition of communion, composed at Torgaw in 1576. – Encyc.

CON-CORD'A-BLE, a.

That may accord; agreeing; harmonious.

CON-CORD'A-BLY, adv.

With agreement. – Rogers.

CON-CORD'ANCE, n. [Fr. concordance; It. concordanza; L. concordans, from concordo, to agree. See Concord.]

1. Agreement. In this sense, Accordance is generally used.
2. In grammar, concord. [Not used.]
3. A dictionary in which the principal words used in the Scriptures are arranged alphabetically, and the book, chapter and verse in which each word occurs are noted; designed to assist an inquirer in finding any passage of Scripture, by means of any leading word in a verse which he can recollect.

CON-CORD'AN-CY, n.

Agreement. – Mountagu.

CON-CORD'ANT, a.

Agreeing; agreeable; correspondent; harmonious. – Brown.

CON-CORD'ANT, n.

That which is accordant. – Mountagu.

CON-CORD'ANT-LY, adv.

In conjunction.

CON-CORD'AT, n.

In the canon law, a compact, covenant, or agreement concerning some beneficiary matter, as a resignation, permutation, promotion, and the like. In particular, an agreement made by a prince with the Pope relative to the collation of benefices; such as that between the Emperor Frederic III, the German princes, and the Pope's legate, A. D. 1448. – Encyc. Span. Dict. Lunier.

CON-CORD'IST, n.

The compiler of a concordance. – Ch. Observer, March, 1811.

CON-COR'PO-RA'TE, v.i.

To unite in one mass or body. – Cleaveland.

CON-COR'PO-RATE, v.t. [L. concorporo, of con and corpus, a body.]

To unite different things in one mass or body; to incorporate. [Little used.] – Taylor.

CON-COR'PO-RA-TED, pp.

United in a mass or body.

CON-COR'PO-RA-TING, ppr.

Uniting in a mass or body.

CON-COR-PO-RA'TION, n.

Union of things in one mass or body.