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Show € Tempeft themfelves, high feas, and howlin winds The gutter'd' rogks and congregated fands As having fenfe of beauty Their mortal natures do omi Shakefpeare's Othello The dry land, earth ; -and the great receptacl Of congregated waters, he.calld feas And faw that it was good Miltor's Paradife Lof Heat congregates homogenea bodies rates heterogeneal ones and fepa Neawron's Opticks Light, congregated by a burning glafs, acts mof upon fulphureous bodies, to turn them into fire 79 Co'NGREGATE meet CON CO WNeavton's Opticks w. #. To affemble; t to gather together He rails Ev'n there where merchants mof do congregate On me," my bargains Shake[p. Merch. of Venice *Tis true (as the old proverb doth relate Equals with equals often congregate Denbam Thefe planes were {o feparate as to move upo acommon fide of the congruent f uares, as an axis Cheyne's Philofophical Principles ONCGRUITY. . /. [from congrue 1. Suitablenefs; agreeablenefs Glanwille 2. Fitnefs ; pertinence A whole fentence may fail of its ca gru@ b wanting one particle Sidaey 3. Confequenc confiftency. of argument ; reafon With what congruity doth the church of Rom deny, that her enemies do at all appertain to th church of Chrift Hooker 4. [In geometry. Figures or lines whic exactly correfpond, when laid over on another, are in congruity Co'~GrEGATE. 4d]. [from the verb.] Collected; compadt Co'NGRUMENT. 2. /. [from congrue.] Fit Wheve the matter is moft congregate, the cold i the greater Bacon's Natural Hiftory The congrument and harmonious fitting of pe ConcrEG TION. 7. /. [from congregate. 1. Thea& of colleting Theé means of reduion by the fire, is but b congregation of homogeneal parts Bacon 2. A collection; a mafs of various part brought together This brave o'erhanging firmament appears n other thing to me, than a foul and peftilent corgregation Of. vapours Shake[peare 3. An aflembly met to worfhip Go i publick, and hear do&rine The words which the minifter firfk pronounceth the whole congregation thall repeat after him, Hooker The pratice of thofe that prefer houfes befor churches 2ion and a conventicle before the congrega South If thofe preachers, who abound in epiphonemas would look about them, they would find part o their congregation out of countenance, and the othe afleep Sawift ConcrEGA'TIONAL. ad). [from congregaion.] Publick ; pertaining to a congregation or aflembly It is a wor ufed of fuch Chriftians as hold ever congregation to be a feparate and independent church CO'NGRESS. #. /. [congreffus, Latin. 1. A meeting ; a fthock a confliét Here Pallas urges on, and Laufus there ‘Their congrefs in the field great Jove withftands Both doom'd to fall, but fall by greater hands Dryden's Aineid From thefe laws may be deduced the rules o the congreffes and refletions of two bodies Cheyne's Philofophical Principles 2. A appointed meetin for fettlemen of affairs between different nations : as the congrefs of Cambray CoNGRE'ss1VE. adj. [ fro congrefs. Meeting ; encountering; coming toge ther If it be underftood of fexes conjoined, all plant are female; and if of disjoined and congrefiv generation, there is no male or female in them. Brewn's Vulgar Errours 7o CONGRU'E. @. 2. [ from'congruo, Lat. T agree to b confiftent fuit ; to be agreeable with t Not in ufe Our fovereign procefs imports at full Not in ufe riods in a fentence, hath almoft the faftening an force of knitting and connexion Be Fon Dif or' ove y Co'~NeruoUS. adf. [congruus, Latin. 1. Agreeable to; confiftent with The exiftence of Go is fo man way mani feft, and the obedience we owe him fo congruous t reafon, that the light of a great part of mankin give teftimony to the law of nature z. Suitable to; accommodate portionate or commenfurate Locke to pro The faculty is infinite, the obje infinite, an they infinitely congruous to one another Cheyne's Philofopbical Principles 3. Rational ; fit Motives that addrefs themfelves to our reafon are fitteft to be employed upon reafonable creatures: it is no ways congruous, that God fheuld b always frightening men into an acknowledgmen of the truth.Atterbury Co'NGRrUOUSLY. adv [from congruous. Suitably ; pertinently ; confiftently This conjeéture is to be regarded, becaufe, corgruoufly unto it, one having warmed the bladder found it then lighter than the oppofite weight Boyle's Spring of the Air Co'wicav. ) adj [conicus, Latin. Hav Co'nNick ing the form of a cone, o round decreafing Tow'sing firs in conick forms arife And with a pointed fpear divide the fkies. Prior A brown flint of a conick figure: the bafis is oblonge Poodwward They are conical veflels, with their bafes toward the heart; and, as they pafs on, their diameter grow ftill lefs Arbuthnot Co'~icaLry. adv form of a cone [fro 'conical. I In a watering pot, fhaped conically, or like fugar-loaf, filled with water, no liquor falls throug th holes at the bottom, whilft the gardener keep his thumb upon the orifice at the top Boyle's Spring of the Air Co"N1cALNESS. 2 /. [from conical. ftate or quality of being conical Cowic Seition. n. f Th A curve line arifin from the fection of a cone by a plane Conick Secions. U n. /o That part of geoCo'nicks metry which confider the cone, and the curves arifing from it By letters congruing to that effeét The prefent death of Hamlet. = Shakefp. Hamlet CoNGRUENCE. . /. [congruentia, Latin Agreement; {uitablenefs of one thing t another ; confiftency ConNGRU'ENT. adj. [ congruens Agreeing5 correfpondent nefs ; adaptation Latin, feétions To CONJE'CT @ er; a conjefturer For fo conjeftors would obtrude And from thy painted fkin conclude Swift Being the object of conjeture; pofibj to be guefled 1 Conje'cTurar [conjeffum T'o guefs ;.to conjefture Lat. . Not in ufe I intreat you then From one that but imperfeétly conjefs Your wifdom yould not build yoyrfelf a trouble Sbakefpeare adj. [from conjeture, Depending on conjecture; faid of don by guefs They'll it by th' fire, and prefume o kno Wh thrives and who declines, fide factions, an give ou Conjeciural-marriages Shakefpeare's Corialang Thou fpeak'ft it falfely, as I l-t{}\:'c mine h:fi': And mak'ft conjeciural fears to come into me Shakefpeare It were a matter of great profit, fave that I doyb it is too conjefural to ventur difcern what corn, herbs, o be in plenty or fcarcity The two laf words are no confequently the reft are onl upon, if one coul fruits, are likely t Ban in Callimachus, an conjeitural Brosme { ConjECTURALITY. 2 /: [from conjodu ral. That which depends upon guefs They have not recurred unto chronology, or th records of time but taken themfelves unto pro babilities, and the conjecturality of philofophy Brown's Vulgar Errours CoNJE'CTURALLY ral. i adv. [from conject By guefs; by conjedure i Whatf{oever may be at any time, out of Scri ture, but probably and conjeéfurally furmifed. He?kb' Let it be probably, not conjeurally, proved DMainz Conjs'cTure. n. [. [conjeffura, Latin 1. Guefs; imperfect knowledge; preponderation of opinion without proof | 1n the cafting of lots, a man cannot, upon an ground of reafon, bring the event fo much asunde _ conjefure South Not no 2. Idea; notion; conception in ufe Now entertain conjeffure of a time When creeping murmur, and the poring dark Fills the wide veflel of the univerfe Skakefpeare's Henry V 7o CoNJE'CTURE. @. a. [from the noun. To guefs; to judge by guefs; to entertain an opinion upon bare probability. 1 When we look upon fuch things asequally ma or may not be, human reafon can then, at the‘befl, Southy but conjecture what will be ConjE'CTURER. 2 f. [from ca_fljeéi‘:_zre.] A gueffer; one who forms opinion without' proof If we fhould believe very grave conjefturersy car=- nivorous animals now were not fleth devourer then Browne | 1 thall leave conjefurers to their own imaginations Adifon Cont'rErOUS. adj. [conus and fero, Lat] Such trees or herbs are comiferous, as bear fquamofe fcaly fruit, of a woody. fubftance, anda figure approaching to a cone, in which are many feeds; and when they are ripe, the feveral cell in the cone open, and the feeds drop out. Of thi kind are the fir, pine, and beech Quing 70 Conjo'BBLE. @w. a. [{from con, 1086 ther, and jobbernol, the head.] To con cert; to fettle; to difcufs word n ConjE'CTURABLEad.j. [from conj ft'ure. ; Cangrui{y.of opinions to our natura conftitution 18 one great incentive to their reception Conyr'cToR. n. [from cojedt.] A guef A low can What would a body think of a minifter tha thould conjobble matters of ftate with tuml,flel‘% a confer politicks with tinkers == L' Efprange nc F a To CONJO'IN. Jungo, Latin, 1. To unite ; to confolidate into one 'irhou |