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txplaining che woros Ihereo( in

~Iphabccieal

order,

wich che fel'eral books, eh'pcers, and verfes qnoted,

in whieh chey areeom.ineJ.

CONCORDIA, in geograph)',

cown of Ihe c1utehy o(

Mamua in ltaly. aboUl fifleen miles fuuch ean o( Ihe

cily o( Mantua: E. long. 11

0 20' ,

aou N.

lat.

450.

CONCRETE, in che fchool.philofophy, an alfembl'ge

or compound.

CONCRETE, in nacural philofophy and dleminry, figni .

6e.s a body made up of dilferenl principies, or any

mlxed boJy : Ihus foap is a fatlilious concrece, or a

body mixed cogelher by art; and anlimony is a nacu–

ral eonerece, or a mixed body, eompounded in che

bOlVels of che eanh.

.CON~RETION,

che uniling cogecher feveral fmall

parllcles of a natural body inco fenfible malfes, or

conereces, whereby ic beeomes fo and (o ngnred ando

decermioed, and is endned wilh fueh and fueh pro–

penies.

CONeRET loNis alfo che atl whereby fofc bodies are ren .

dmd hard ; Or an infenfible mOlion o( Ihe particles of

a fluid or a fofl body, whereby Ihey come 10 a eonfin–

ence.

is indiffe,endy ufed for induracion, eonden.

facion, eongelacion, and eoagulacion.

CONCUBINACE, denoces fomecimes a criminal or

prohibiced eommerce becween Ihe fexes ' in whieh

f:ofe.iceomprehends aduleery, ineen, and' fimple (or–

ntcall?n:. bue, in a mOre limiced fenfe, ic fignifies Ihe

e~hab:taCion

of amanand a IVOman in che way o( mar–

rrage, wiehoucharing palfed che ceremony ehereof.

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CUBINE, a woman whom aman cakes co eohabic

wich iD che manner of a IVi(e. wichouc being auchori–

fed eherero hy a legal marriage.

CONCUP~SCENCE,

aecording co oivines, an irregu–

lar appeCice, or lun a(cer carnal chings, inherenc in

che nalure of mao ever Gnce che fall.

COND.~MIN,

in bocan)'. See Cr NeHoN A.

CONDE,

cown o( ,he French Necherlands, in che

provioce o( Haioault, ficualed on che river Seheld, a.

bouccwelve miles wen of Mons: E. long.

3°

40"

N.lae.

50·

ONDENSATION, che aél whereby a body is render–

ed more deofe, compatl, and heavy.

CONDENSER, a pneumacicengine, or (yringe, where–

bY .3n uncommon quaocily of ai r may be crouded iOlO

a glv:o (pace; fo chae fomcnmes cen acmofpheres, or

centimes as much ai r as Ihere is ac lhe fame cime, in

~he

fame fpace. wichoUl che engine, mal' be chrown

by means o( ie, ar.d

ie~

egrefs preveoled by valvcs

Cproper!r Mpofed. See PNtUMAT ICS.

O~[)I

n ON, in che civil I"w, a claufe o( obligadon

nlpulattd as an article of a creacy or eoncrae· or in a

dOnaeiQn of e,namtne, legaey,

Óc.

in which'lan

~a(e

a.donee does noclofe his donacive, if ic be charged

CO~h

30y diAlOnen or impoffiblc condicions.

. DITlONALS, fomcching nOI ab(ulute buc (ub–

J'll lOcondilions.

CO~DOM.

che capilal of che Condornois, in che pro–

'~nce

C~fcony,

in Francr,

auolll

fiXly miles (ouch–

RQurdeaux. Ic is a bifhop's fee, and ficuaccd

E. long. and

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CO DORMIENT ES, in ehurch hinory, rcligious fee–

taries, II'ho hold Iheir n3me (rom Iying all eogelher,

men and womcn, young and old. They arofe in che

lhirteenth eenlull' near Cologne, \\here chey are raid

co have 1V0rfhipped an image o( Lucifer, and co have

received anfwers anJ

orael~s

(rom him.

CONDUCTOR, in furgery, an innrUmenl which (em!

co eondutl lhe knife in lhe operacion of cuniog (or che

Ilone, and in laying up finu(es and fillu l.s. See SUR–

ER Y.

CONDUIT, a canal or pipe (or che eonveyance

wa–

ter, or olher fluid.

There are Ceveral Cublerraneous conduics chrough

whieh lhe wacers pafs chal (orm (prings. Artificial

conduílS Cor IVater are made of lead, 1I0ne, can·iron,

poner's earth, cimber,

&c.

CO ' DYLOM.'\, in medicine, a tuberele or callous e–

minence which arifes in che folds o( lhe anus, or racher

a (",elling or hardening o( che wrinkles o( chal parto

CONDYLU,S, a name given by anacomins co a knoc in

any of lhe joints, (ormed by Ihe epiphyfis o( abone.

CON

in geomelry, a Colid figure, having a cirele for

ics bafe, and ics lOp cermioaced in a poiocor venex.

See CONIC SECT IONS.

CONE

rop,

in opcics, includes all che (emal ray!

II'hieh (all (rom any radianc poioc

che furfaee of

glafs. See O,TI cs.

CONESSI, a Cort o( bark o( a cree whieh grolVs on che

Coromandcl eoan in che Ean·lodies.

is recom–

mended in a lener co Dr Monro, in lhe Medical

Er–

fays, as a fpecific io diarrhceas.

is co be pounded

inco a fine powder, and made inco ao eleéluary wich

fyrup o( or2nges; and che bark fhould be (refh, aod

che eletluary new made every day, or fecond day,

cher\Vife it lofes ics aullere but graceful binernefs on

che palace, and ics proper elfetls on lhe incenines.

CONFECTlON, in pharmacy, fignifies iD general any

lhing prepared wieh fugar: in particular, ic impores

fomeching preferved, e(pecially dry fubOanees.

al–

fo fignifies a liquid or fO(l e1eéluary, of whieh chere

are various fons direéled in difpenfacories.

CONFECTS, a denominacion given co fruics, Oowcrs.

herbs, rOOIS,

éc.

when boiled or prepared wilh fugar

or honey, co difpofe chem

keep, and reoder lhem

more agreeabJc co che ca(le.

CONFER VA, in bocany, a genus of che crl'ptogami¡

alore clafs, confining o( oblong, capillary filameoa;

W~hOUl

any joinls. There are tWenly·one fpecies.

CONFESS rON, in a legal fenfe, an acknowlcdgment

o( fome trueh, chough iDprejudice of che per(on lhat

makes lhe deelaralion.

CON FESS 'O N, among divinls, lhe verbal acknowledge–

menc which a Chrinian makes o( his fins.

Among lhe Jews it was

cuOom, on lhe annu,1

(c~{J

o( expialion, (or che high.prien co Ill,ke eonfel–

fion of fins 10 Cod in che name of lhe whole people:

bcfidcs chis gener,1con(effion, che Jews \Vereenjoined,

if lheir

fios

IVere

breach o( lhe firn cableof lhe law.

co make eoo(eflion

¿(

lheOl co God; buc vinlations of–

fere.d lhe fecond cable, were co be acknolVledgcd ca

cheir brelhrcn. The confeffions of lhe primicive Chri-

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