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Show CO L u o l m t o [ j a S L U CoN The bones, in fharp colds, wax brittle; and al contufions, in hard weather, are more hard to cure farcaftick ; con Bacon in. 1. Reproachful ; rude temptuous Wit In ope "To be In al fcoffs and fcorns, and contumelious taunts market-place produc'd they m Shakefp. Henry V1 publick fpectacle the quarrels and tumults at Rome, thoug the people frequently proceeded to rude contumeliou language, yet no blood was ever drawn in an popular commotions, till the time of the Gracchi Savift 2, Inclined to utter reproich or praétif infults ;. brutal ; rude There is yet another fort of contumelions perfons who indeed are not chargeable with that circumftance of ill employing their wit; for they uf none of it Gaowernment of the Tonguz Giving our holy virgins to the ftai Of contumelious, beaftly, madbrain'd war Shake[peare's Timon 3. Produttive of reproach ; fthameful nominious ig ~As it is in the higheft degree injurious to them {o it is contumelious to him Decay of Piety CoNTuME'LIOUSLY. adv. [from contumelious.] Reproachfully; contemptuoufly ; rudely ~ The people are not wont to take fo great offence, whe they are excluded from honours an are contumelionfl offices, as when their perfon trodden upon Hooker Fie, lords ! that you, being fupreme magiftrates Thus contumelionfly fhould break the peace Shakefpeare's Henry V1 CoNTUME'LIOUSNESS. 7 /. [from contumelious.] Rudenefs ; reproach CONTUMELY. n f. [contumelia, Lat. Rudenefs ; contemptuocufnefs ; bitternef of language ; reproach If the helm of chief government be in the hand of a few of the wealthieft, then laws, providin for continuance thereof, muft make the punifhment of contumely and wrong, offered unto any o the common fort, fharp and grievous, that fo th evil may be prevented Hooker ¢« Th' oppreflor's wrong, the proud man's conrymely The pang of defpis'd love, the law's delay It was undervalued an bitternefs and contumely Shakefpeare's Hamlet deprefled with fom Clarendon Why fhould anyman be troubled at the contume"lies of thofe, whofe judgment deferves not to b valued Tillotfon Eternal contumely attend that guilty title, whic claims exemption from thought, and arrogates t its wearers the prerogative of brutes Addifon's Guardian 99 CONTU'SE. . a. [contufus, Latin. 1. To beat together ; to bruife Of their roots, barks, and feeds, contufed together, and mingled with other earth, and well watere wit war water ther cam much like the other fort herb Bacon 2. To bruife the fleth without a breac of the continuity The ligature contufes the lips in cutting them, f that they requir unite to be digefted before they ca Wifeman ConTvu'sioN. z. /. [from contufis. 1. The a& of beating or bruifing 2. The ftate of being beaten or bruifed - Take a piece of glafs, and reduce it to powder it acquiring- by contufion a multitude of minut furfaces, fro clean.sh data import.tsv out README white body CO CO a diaphanous degenerate into Boyle on"Colours A bruife; a compreflion of the fibres . diftinguifhed from a wound That winter lion, who in rage forget Aged contufions, ang all bruife of time Sbakefpeare's Henry V1 ConvaLe'sCENCE {# /. [from conva ConvaLE'scEncy, § Jefco, Latin.] Renewal of health ; recovery from a difeafe Being in a place out of the reach of any alarm fhe recovered her fpirits to a reafonable convale/cence Clarendon. CONVALE'SCENT. adj. [convalefcens Latin.] Recovering; returning to ftate of health CoNVE'NABLE. adj. [convenable, Fr. 1. Confiftent with ; agreeable to; accordant to. Not now in ufe He is fo meek, wife, and merciable And with his word his work is conwenable Spenfer's Paftorals 2. That may be convened 7o CONVE'NE. @. z. [convenio, Latin. 1. T com together t affociate t unite Th fire feparates the aqueous parts from th others, wherewith they were blended in the concrete, and brings them into the receiver, wher they conwene into a liquor Boyle In fhort-fighted men, whofe eyes are too plump the refraCion being too great, the rays converg and conwene in the eyes, before they come at th bottom Neavton's Opticks 2. To aflemble for any publick purpofe There are fettled periods of their conwening, or liberty left to the prince for convoking the legiflature Locke 7o CoNVE'NE @. a 1. To call together; to afflemble voke to con No man was better pleafed with the convening o this parliament than myfelf King Charles All the faétious and fchifmatical people woul frequently, as well in the night as the day, conven themfelves by the found of a bell Clarendon And now th' almighty father of the god Conwvenes a council in the bleft abodes 2. To fummon judicially - Pope's Statius By the papal canon law, clerks, in criminal an civil caufes, cannot be conwened before any but a ecclefiaftical judge Ayliffe ConVE'NIENCE. } . [o [convenientia, LaConVE'NIENCY tin. 1. Fitnefs ; propriety Gbrveniency is, when a thing or aion is fo fitte to the circumftances, and the circumftances to it that thereby it becomes a thing convenient Perkins Tn things not commanded of God, yet lawful becaufe permitted, the queftion is, what light thal thew us the conveniency which one hath above another Hooker 2. Commodioufnefs ; eafe ; frgedom fro difficulties A man putting all his pleafures into one, is lik a traveller's putting all'his goods into one jewel the value is the fame, and the conwenience greater South's Sermons Every man muft want fomething for the conveniency of his life, for which he muft be obliged t others Ther is anothe Calamy's Sermons converience in this method during your waiting. Swift's Direft. to the Footman 3. Caufe of eafe; accommodation If it have not fuc be very uncomfortable a conwenience voyage fpeéive, and feveral other little conmeniencics, T di not think myfelf bound in honour to difcover Swift's Gulliuer's Trawels 4. Fitnefs of time or place Ufe no farther means But, with all brief and plain conveniency Let me have judgment. Shakefp, Merch. of Venice CONVE'NIENT 1. Fit Wilkins's Mathem. Magick A man alters his mind as the work proceeds and will have this or that comvenience more, o which he had not thought when he began Dryden's Fables, Preface There was a pair of fpectacles, a poclket per [conveniens, Lat, fuitable ; proper ; well adapted commodious The leaft and mof trivial epifodes, or unde aétions, are either neceflary or comwenicnt; eithe fo neceflary, that without them the poem muft b imperfet 5 or fo convenient, that no others can b imagined more fuitable to the place in which the are Dryden's Dedication tothe AEncid Health itfelf is but a kind of temper, gotten an preferved by a convenient mixture of contrarieties Arbuthnot on Aliments z. It has either # or for before the following noun : perhaps it ought generally to have for before perfons, and 7 before things Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed m with food convenicnt for me Prov. xxx. 8 There are fome arts that are peculiarly convenient to fome particular nations Tillotforr ConVE'NIENTLY. adw. [from convenient. 1. Commodiouily; without difficulty I this morning kno Where we fhall find him moft conveniently Shakefpeare's Hamlet 2. Fitly; with proper adaptation of par to part, or of the whole to the effect propofed It would be worth the experiment to inquire whether or no a failing chariot might be mor convenientl frame wit moveabl fails whof force may be imprefled from their motion, equivalent to thofe in a wind-mill Wilkins CO'NVENT. #. /. [conwventus, Latin. 1. An aflembly of religious perfons; body of monks or nuns He came to Leicefter Lodg'd in the abbey, where the reverend abbot With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him Shake[peare 2. A religious houfe ; an abbey ; a monaftery ; a nunnery One feldom finds in Italy a fpot of grourd mor agreeable than ordinary, that is not covered with Addifan convent To ConVE'NT . a. [convenio, Latin. To call before a judge or judicature He with his oat By all probation will make up full clear Shak. Meaf. for Meaf Whenever he 's convented They fent forth their precepts to attach men and convent them before themfelves at privat Bacon's Henry V1l houfes CoNVE'NTICLE. . /. [conventiculum, La tin. 1. An aflembly ; a meeting The wenticle are commande of me to abftai whatfoever 3 even fro ou all cénof th church, to have nothing to do with publick bufi nefs Ayliffe's Parergon Generall z. An aflembly for worthip ufed in an ill fenfe, including berefy o {chif{m It behoveth, that the place where God fhall b feryed by the whole church be a publick place, fo the avoiding of privy conventicles, which, covere with pretenc muf adj of religion, ma ous praétices Who ferve unto danger Hooker far from fteeples and their facred found Dryden In fields their fullen conventicles found A fort of men, who are content to be ftiled o the church of England, who perhaps attend it fervice in the morning, and go with their wives t Saift a conventicle in the afternoon i 3. |