Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON'SCIENCE-LESS, a.

Having no conscience. – Hooker.

CON'SCIENCE-PROOF, a.

Proof against the compunctions of conscience.

CON'SCIENCE-SMIT-TEN, a.

1. Smitten by conscience or remorse. – Allen.
2. Having the conscience stung.

CON'SCIENT, a.

Conscious. [Not used.] – Bacon.

CON-SCI-EN'TIOUS, a.

1. Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; as, a conscientious judge.
2. Regulated by conscience; according to the dictates of conscience as, a conscientious probity. – L'Estrange.

CON-SCI-EN'TIOUS-LY, adv.

According to the direction of conscience; with a strict regard to right and wrong. A man may err conscientiously.

CON-SCI-EN'TIOUS-NESS, n.

A scrupulous regard to the decisions of conscience; a sense of justice, and strict conformity to its dictates. – Locke. All his conduct seemed marked with an exact and unvarying conscientiousness. – J. L. Kingsley, Eulogy on Prof. Fisher.

CON'SCION-A-BLE, a.

According to conscience; reasonable; just. Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction. – Wotton.

CON'SCION-A-BLE-NESS, n.

Reasonableness; equity. – Dict.

CON'SCION-A-BLY, adv.

In a manner agreeable to conscience; reasonably; justly. – Taylor.

CON'SCIOUS, a. [L. conscius.]

1. Possessing the faculty or power of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Thus, man is a conscious being.
2. Knowing from memory, or without extraneous information; as, I am not conscious of the fact. The damsel then to Tancred sent, / Who, conscious of the occasion, feared the event. – Dryden.
3. Knowing by conscience, or internal perception or persuasion; as, I am not conscious of having given any offense. Sometimes followed by to; as, I am not conscious to myself Æneas only, conscious to the sign, / Presaged the event. – Dryden. So we say, conscious of innocence, or of ignorance, or of a crime.

CON'SCIOUS-LY, adv.

With knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions. If these perceptions, with their consciousness, always remained in the mind, the same thinking thing would be always consciously present. – Locke.

CON'SCIOUS-NESS, n.

1. The knowledge of sensations and mental operations, or of what passes in one's own mind; the act of the mind which makes known an internal object. – Locke. Reid. Encyc. Consciousness of our sensations, and consciousness of our existence, seem to be simultaneous. – Edin. Encyc. Consciousness must be an essential attribute of spirit. – Watts.
2. Internal sense or knowledge of guilt or innocence. A man may betray his consciousness of guilt by his countenance.
3. Certain knowledge from observation or experience. – Gibbon.

CON'SCRIPT, a. [L. conscriptus, from conscribo, to enroll; con and scribo, to write.]

Written; enrolled; as conscript fathers, the senators of Rome, so called because their names were written in the register of the senate.

CON'SCRIPT, n.

An enrolled soldier; a word used in France.

CON-SCRIP'TION, n. [L. conscriptio.]

1. An enrolling or registering.
2. Soldiers or forces levied by enrolling.

CON'SE-CRATE, a.

Sacred; consecrated; devoted; dedicated. They were assembled in that consecrate place. – Bacon. [This word is now seldom used, unless in poetry.]

CON'SE-CRATE, v.t. [L. consecro; con and sacro, to consecrate, from sacer, sacred. See Sacred.]

1. To make or declare to be sacred, by certain ceremonies or rites; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service and worship of God; as, to consecrate a church. Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. – Exod. xxix. All the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated to the Lord. – Josh. vi.
2. To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.
3. To set apart and bless the elements in the eucharist.
4. To render venerable; to make respected; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.

CON'SE-CRA-TED, pp.

Made sacred by ceremonies or solemn rites; separated from a common to a sacred use; devoted or dedicated to the service and worship of God; made venerable.

CON'SE-CRA-TED-NESS, n.

State of being consecrated.

CON'SE-CRA-TING, ppr.

Making sacred; appropriating to a sacred use; dedicating to the service of God; devoting; rendering venerable.

CON-SE-CRA'TION, n.

1. The act or ceremony of separating from a common to a sacred use, or of devoting and dedicating a person or thing to the service and worship of God, by certain rites or solemnities. Consecration does not make a person or thing really holy, but declares it to be sacred, that is, devoted to God, or to divine service; as, the consecration of the priests among the Israelites; the consecration of the vessels used in the temple; the consecration of a bishop.
2. Canonization; the act of translating into heaven, and enrolling or numbering among the saints or gods; the ceremony of the apotheosis of an emperor. – Hale.
3. The benediction of the elements in the eucharist; the act of setting apart and blessing the elements in the communion. – Encyc.

CON'SE-CRA-TOR, n.

One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. – Atterbury.

CON'SE-CRA-TO-RY, a.

Making sacred. – Bp. Morton.

CON'SEC-TA-RY, a. [L. consectarius, from consector, to follow; con and sector, sequor. See Seek.]

Following; consequent; consequential; deducible. – Brown.