Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-GRES'SION, n.

A company. [Not in use.]

CON-GRES'SION-AL, a.

Pertaining to a congress, or to the congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. The congressional institution of Amphictyons in Greece. – Barlow.

CON-GRES'SIVE, a.

1. Meeting, as the sexes. – Brown.
2. Encountering.

CON-GRUE', v.i.

To agree. [Not used.] – Shak.

CON'GRU-ENCE, or CON'GRU'EN-CY, n. [L. congruentia, from congruo, to agree, or suit.]

Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. – More.

CON'GRU-ENT, a.

Suitable; agreeing; correspondent. – Davies.

CON-GRU'I-TY, n.

1. Suitableness; the relation of agreement between things. There is no congruity between a mean subject and a lofty style; but an obvious congruity between an elevated station and dignified deportment.
2. Fitness; pertinence. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting a particle. – Sidney.
3. Reason; consistency; propriety. – Hooker.
4. In school divinity, the good actions which are supposed to render it meet and equitable that God should confer grace on those who perform them. The merit of congruity is a sort of imperfect qualification for the gift and reception of God's grace. – Milner.
5. In geometry, figures or lines, which when laid over one another, exactly correspond, are in congruity. – Johnson.

CON'GRU-OUS, a. [L. congruus.]

1. Suitable; consistent; agreeable to. Light airy music and a solemn or mournful occasion are not congruous. Obedience to God is congruous to the light of reason. – Locke.
2. Rational; fit. It is not congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. – Atterbury.

CON'GRU-OUS-LY, adv.

Suitably; pertinently; agreeably; consistently. – Boyle.

CON'IC, or CON'IC-AL, a. [L. conicus; Gr. κωνικος. See Cone.]

1. Having the form of a cone; round and decreasing to a point; as, a conic figure; a conical vessel.
2. Pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections. Conic section, a curve line formed by the intersection of a cone and plane. The conic sections are the parabola, hyperabola, and ellipsis. – Bailey.

CON'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In the form of a cone. – Boyle.

CON'IC-AL-NESS, n.

The state or quality of being conical.

CON'ICS, n.

That part of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections. – Johnson.

CO'NI-FER, n. [L. infra.]

In botany, a plant producing cones. – Lindley.

CO-NIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. conifer, coniferus; from conus and fero, to bear.]

Bearing cones; producing hard, dry, scaly seed-vessels of a conical figure, as the pine, fir, cypress and beech. – Martyn. Encyc.

CO'NI-FORM, a. [cone and form.]

In form of a cone; conical; as, a coniform mountain of Potosi. – Kirwan.

CO-NI'I-NA, or CO-NE'I-NA, n. [or CO-NI'CI-NA, or CO-NI'A, or CO-NI'INE, or CO-NE'INE. Gr. κωνειον.]

An alkaloid obtained from Conium maculatum, the modern officinal Hemlock, and its active medicinal principle.

CO-NIS'TRA, n. [Gr.]

The pit of a theater.

CO'NITE, n. [Gr. κονις, dust.]

A mineral of an ash or greenish gray color, which becomes brown by exposure to the air, occurring massive or stalactitic; found in Saxony and in Iceland. – Ure.

CON-JECT', v.i.

To guess. [Not used.] – Shak.

CON-JECT', v.t.

To throw together, or to throw. [Not used.] – Mountagu.

CON-JEC'TOR, n. [L. conjicio, to cast together; con and jacio, to throw.]

One who guesses or conjectures. [See Conjecture.] – Swift.

CON-JEC'TU-RA-BLE, a.

That may be guessed or conjectured.

CON-JEC'TU-RAL, a.

Depending on conjecture; done or said by guess; as, a conjectural opinion.

CON-JEC'TU-RAL-LY, adv.

Without proof, or evidence; by conjecture; by guess; as, this opinion was given conjecturally.