Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-CERN'ED, pp. [or a.]

1. Interested; engaged; having a connection with that which may affect the interest, welfare or happiness; as, all men are concerned in the propagation of truth; we are concerned in the virtuous education of our children.
2. Interested in business; having connection in business; as, A. is concerned with B. in the East India trade. Of an advocate or counselor we say, he is concerned in the cause of A. against B.
3. Regarding with care; solicitous; anxious; as, we are concerned for the fate of our fleet.

CON-CERN'ED-LY, adv.

With affection or interest. – Clarendon.

CON-CERN'ING, ppr.

Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to. The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. – Numb. x. I have accepted thee concerning this thing. – Gen xix. This word has been considered as a preposition, but most improperly; concerning, when so called, refers to a verb, sentence, or proposition; as in the first example, the word applies to the preceding affirmation. The Lord hath spoken good, which speaking good is concerning Israel. Concerning, in this case, refers to the first clause of the sentence.

CON-CERN'MENT, n.

1. The thing in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; business; interest. To mix with thy concernments I desist. – Milton. Propositions which extend only to the present life, are small, compared with those that have influence upon our everlasting concernments. – Watts. The great concernment of men is with men. – Locke.
2. A particular bearing upon the interest or happiness of one; importance; moment. Experimental truths are matters of great concernment to mankind. – Boyle.
3. Concern; interposition; meddling; as, the father had no concernment in the marriage of his daughter. In this sense, we generally use concern.
4. Emotion of mind; solicitude; as, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. In this sense, concern is generally used.

CON'CERT, n.

1. Agreement of two or more in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; as, the allies were frustrated for want of concert in their operations; the Emperor and the Pope acted in concert.
2. A number or company of musicians, playing or singing the same piece of music at the same time; or the music of a company of players or singers, or of both united.
3. A singing in company.
4. Accordance; harmony.

CON-CERT', v.t. [It. concertare, to contrive; Sp. concertar, to agree, to adjust, to covenant; Port. id.; Fr. concerter; from L. concerto, to strive together; con and certo, to strive. The primary sense is to set or act together.]

To contrive and settle by mutual communication of opinions or propositions; to settle or adjust, as a plan or system to be pursued, by conference or agreement of two or more parties; as, to concert measures; to concert a plan of operations.

CON-CERT-A'TION, n.

Strife; contention. [Little used.]

CON-CERT'ED, pp.

Mutually contrived or planned.

CON-CERT'ING, ppr.

Contriving together.

CON-CERT'O, n. [It.]

A piece of music for a concert. – Mason.

CON-CES'SION, n. [L. concessio, from concedo. See Concede.]

1. The act of granting or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request from the party to whom it is made, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. The concession of these charters was in a parliamentary way. – Hale.
2. The thing yielded; as, in the treaty of peace, each power made large concessions.
3. In rhetoric or debate, the yielding, granting, or allowing to the opposite party some point or fact that may bear dispute, with a view to obtain something which can not be denied, or to show that even admitting the point conceded, the cause is not with the adverse party, but can be maintained by the advocate on other grounds.
4. Acknowledgment by way of apology; confession of a fault.

CON-CES'SION-A-RY, a.

Yielding by indulgence or allowance.

CON-CES'SION-IST, n.

One who makes a concession.

CON-CES'SIVE, a.

Implying concession; as, a concession conjunction. – Lowth.

CON-CES'SIVE-LY, adv.

By way of concession or yielding; by way of admitting what may be disputable. – Brown.

CON-CES'SO-RY, a.

Conceding; yielding.

CON-CET'TO, n. [It. See Conceit.]

Affected wit; conceit. [Not English, nor in use.] – Shenstone.

CONCH, n. [L. concha; Gr. κογχη; It. conca; Sp. concha; Fr. conque; probable W. cocos, cockles, and perhaps allied to coçiaw, to frown, to knit the brows, that is, to wrinkle. See Cancer.]

A marine shell. Adds orient pearls, which from the conchs he drew. – Dryden.

CONCH'I-FER, n. [L. concha, a shell, and fero, to bear.]

An animal that produces or is covered with a shell, as the tortoise; also, a species of bivalve Molluscans. – Cuvier. Kirby.

CONCH-IF'ER-OUS, a.

Producing or having shells.

CON-CHIL-I-OM'E-TRY, n. [L. conchylium, and Gr. μετρον.]

The art or science of measuring shells or their curves.

CONCH'ITE, n.

A fossil or petrified conch or shell. – Nat. Hist.

CONCH'OID, n. [conch, supra. and Gr. ειδος, form.]

The name of a curve, given to it by its inventor Nicomedes.

CONCH-OID'AL, a.

In mineralogy, resembling a conch or marine shell; having convex elevations and concave depressions, like shells; as, a conchoidal fracture. – Kirwan.

CONCH-O-LOG'IC-AL, a. [See Conchology.]

Pertaining to conchology.