Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-NECTION, n. [L. connexio; It. connessione. See Connect.]

1. 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.
2. A relation by blood or marriage.
3. 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.]

1. To wink; to close and open the eyelids rapidly. – Spectator.
2. 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.

1. Shutting the eyes; forbearing to see. – Milton.
2. 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.
3. 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.

CON-NOIS-SEUR'SHIP, n.

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.

CON-NU-MER-A'TION, n.

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.