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Show CO CO Henry VIII. when it was laid afide, a being {o powerful as to become troublefome to the king. From thefe might The air appearing fo malicious in this morbifi confpiracy exacks a more particular regard Harwey on Confumption n t L s a i f o [ j a ConsPIUR c r p n c i n g g e Confpirin magiftrates are derived the inferiour cor or plot; plotting Jtables of hundreds and franchifes; tw of whom were ordained, in the thir flmxgrious princ ntt this;'"th;} hig ;m ira ntt' 'gai Confpir teent t L i a i f o [ J 7 ConspIRA'T d e o t o e e r An a the Tower, of Dover Caftle, of the Coaftl of Carnarvon: but thefe are properl caftellani, or governours of caftles When I came hither, T was lord high conffable And duke of Buckinghamj; now poor Edwar Shakefpeare Bohun The knave conffable had fet me 1' th' ftocks i' th> common ftocks, for a witch Shakefpeare's Merry Wivesof Windfor The conffable being a {ober man, and an enem to fedition, went to obferve what they did Clarendon South g5 CONSPI'RE. w. n. [confpiro, Lat. 1. To concert a crime; to plot; to hatc fecret treafon fro an That do confpire my death with devilifh plot Shaksfp. Richard 111 Of damned witchcraft Shakefpeare's Anthony and Cleopatra They took great indignation, and confpired againf Apocrypha Let the air be excluded ; for that underminet the body, and confpireth with-the fpirit of the bod There is in man a natural poffibility to deftro the world; that is, to confpire to know no woman Brown's Vulgar Errours The prefs, the pulpit, and the ftage thaken determination Triumphant conffancy has fix'd her feat In vain the fyrens fing, the tempefts beat of war Conftancy is fuch a ftability and firmnefs o friendthip, as overlooks and paffes by leffer failures of kindnefs, and yet ftill retains the fam habitual good-will to a friend South But, however, firange and admirable tinued hereditary till the thirteenth o 5. Certain; not various; fteady adherent : - with zo throug No th firml land his care of foul h ftretch'd And like a primitive apoftle preach'd Still cheerful, ever conftant to his call By many follow'd, lov'd by moft, admir'd by all Dryden He fhewed his firm adherence to rcigion, a modelled by our national conftitution; and wa conflant to its offices in devotion, both in publick Addifor's Freeholder and in his family Co'NSTANTLY. adv. [from conftant Unvariably; perpetually;5 certainly fteadily 1t is firange that the fathers fhould never appeal; nay, that they fhould not conffantly do it Tillotfon w. 2. [confif[lflz‘zu 7o CONSTE'LLATE Latin.] To join luftre; to fhine wit one general light The feveral things which engage our affefions do, in a tranfcendent manner, thine forth and con Boyle Sfelltte in God To unite {everal fhining bodies in one {plendour 70 CONSTE'LLATE Grea conftitutions V. Q and fuch as are conflellate Shakefpeare If you take highly retified fpirit of wine, an dephlegmed fpirit of urine, and mix them, yo may turn thefe two fluid liquors into a conffan body Boyle's Hiftory of Firmnefs 2. Unvaried ; unchanged immutable durable The world 's a fcene of changes, and to b Conftant, in natere were inconflancy For {th ftar of heaven the confellaticn an thereof, fhall not give their light. Ifziab, xiil. 10 The earth, the air, refounded The heav'ns and all the conflellations rung Milton's Paradife Lof? A conflellation is but one Dryden Though 'tis a train of ftars 2. An aflemblage of fplendours, or excel lencies The condition is a conffellation or conjuncture o charity, felf Hammond's Pra&ical Catechifm CoNSTERNA'TION. 7 /. [from confferno Lat.] Aftonifbment; amazement ; alie nation of mind by a furprize ; furprize wonder They find the fame holy conffernation upon them felves that Jacob. did at Bethel, which he called th South They muft obey, in conflernation wai Till rigid conqueft will pronounce their liege CO'NSTANT. adj. [conftans, Latin. 1. Firm; fixed; not fluid Both loving one fair maid, they yet remaine Sidney conftant friends The natives, dubious who But all the ftory of the night told over More witnefleth than fancy's images And grows to fomething of great conffancy the court of the conffable and marfha belonged the cognizance of contradls deeds of arms without the realm, an combats and blafonry of arms within it The firt conffable of England was creat 4. Free from change of affetion gate of heaven 5. Certainty ; veracity ; reality T ed by the Conqueror, and the office con Prior 4. Lafting affe@ion; continuance of love or friendfhip ment ; -pollution CO'NSTABLE. 7. /. [comes fabuli, as i is fuppofed. 1. Lord high conffable is an ancient office of the crown. The fun&ion of the conStable of England confifted in the care o the common peace of the land in deed Could turn fo much the conftitutio Shakefp. Merchant of Venice Of any conffant man all thofe gofpel graces, faith, hope denial, repentance, and the reft In a {mall ifle, amid® the wideft feas Haryis to one another ConsPUGRCA TION. 7. /o [from confpurco The a& of defiling ; defileLatin. e Hooker 3. Refolation ; firmnefs ; fteadinefs ; un Consp1'R1NG Powers. [In mechanicks. All fuch as act in direction not oppofit in matter Ray on the Creation Who chafes, who frets, and where confpirers are Shak. Mach Macbeth fhall never vanquith'd be Some dear friend dead; elfe nothing in the worl ConsTELLA'TION. 7 /. [from conflellate. 1. A clufter of fixed ftars a multipkicity, fhould be the refult of chance Take no care Some fhrewd content Now {teal the colour from Baffanio's cheek 1. Immutability ; perpetuity ; unalterabl continuance Incredible, that conflancy in-fuch a variety, fuc confpirator; a plotter able ; unfhaken This keeperthip is annexed to the conffable/bi of the caftle; and that granted out in leafe Carewv's Surwey of Cornavall . 2. Confiftency; unvaried ftate 3. Firm; refolute; determined; immov into knowledge, de nothing-till they outdo all Brown's Vulgar Errours Thefe fcattered perfeftions, which were divide among thie feveral ranks of inferiour natures, wer fummed up and conffellated in oyprs Glanwille's Scepfis lity of the other So moift and dry, when Pheebus fhines Heigh Confpiring give the plant to grow an knows himfelf to b to be of a different conftitution from the former in refpeét of the one's conffancy, and the mutabi 2. To agree together: as, a/l things con of arms a ma To fpend mor The laws of God himfelf no man will ever den Confpire to cenfure and expofe our age. Rofcommon confpire. ftated account. firm the fettled 'CO'NSTANCY. 2. /. [conffantia, Latin. Bacon [fro Fr worth: a low phrafe Co'NsTABLESHIP. . /. [from conffable. The office of a conftable That mov'd pale Caffius to confpire 7. / conteffable than wha ‘What was i ConNspi RER [perhap 2. To over-run the CoNsTABLE Tell me what they deferve fpire to make bim happy Coawell. Chambers Dryden's Spanifp Friar One put into his hand a note of the whole confpiracy againft him, together with all the names o to diffolve it Thef view of armour from particular places ; as, conflable o Achitophel is among the confpiratars with Ab2 Sanuel falom Stand back, thou manifeft confpirator Thou that contriv'{t to murder our dread lord Shake[peare's Henry V1 But let the bold confpirator bewar For heav'n makes princes its peculiar care the king o Befide rity, called petty conftables thefe, we have conffables denominate who has fecretly concerted with other . commiffion of a crime ; a plotter every hundred, for the confervatio to b of people and offences, have occafione others in every town of inferiour autho A man engaged in a plot; on the confpirators i I are now called high conffables ; becauf continuance of time, and increafe bot L r p n c r [ / 7 Con tin{ chofe of Edwar the peace, an One would wonder how, from fo differing prer w o f l n c m f t f i l o f e t s f m p t r w f r t i o o t r p n c t a t it no tent for the diverfity of judgment. Decay of Picty CO Cowley Philips 7o CO'NSTIPATE w. a. [from conflipo Latin. 1. To crowd together into a narrow room to thicken ; to condenfe Of cold, the property is to condenfe and confli Bacoe ate It may by amafling, cooling of waters, turn them into rain and conflipatin Ray on the Creat There might. arife fome vertiginous motions o whirlpools in the matte the atom migh of the chaos, whereb be thruft and crowded to th middl |