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the bead of the rérrare
¡
rhey commanded the
armiell~
CONTI, a town of Picardy in ;France, aboa! Grteen
aad were fupreme judges of the diJl'erences between
miles fouth·wert of Amiens: E.long.
2° 20',
N.lat.
Ibe citlzens
j
but
as
they had made Come.abuCe of Ihis
49°
40"
•. .
power, it was allowe¡l by the Valerian la.w for lhe CONTIGUITY, in geomelry, is when the furfare of
party aggrlevea' to"appul from theír tribunal tO the
one body louches thal of another.
peo~le,
efpecially ia cafes where the life of a cil¡zen CONTINF;NT, ia gcneral, aa appellation given to
Was ·concerned. Under.the
el!lperor,~ ~onfuj ~as
Jit·
tbing! coatinued without interruptioa
j
in 'whicb Ceafe
tle mor,e t1Ían 'aa hooourlible
li~e.
and ar lafi ir be·
w~ f~r" CQ~¡~em
fe.er,&c.
cwe ábrolurely ex.tioél in {he time of jufiiaian. ,From
CON\-\~HT,
in geography, a great extent of lan.! not
lhé efiablilhmeat of the rep.uhl;c to the
coafulat~
of
interrupted by feas, ia contradilliaélion to iOaod aod
BaGl, that is, frolll. the year of Rome
,244'
tq the . peniofula,
&c.
See GEOGlAPHY.
year of Rome
1294,
the years are
accoQn~ed
by
the
CO~TINGENr,
Coroetbing cafualor uoufua!. Hence
coafuls
j.
but after that period, the time was compured
future coatingent, deaotes a conditional event whiéh
hy lhe years of the emperats réigns and the ioclillioas.
may or may not happen, according as circumllaoces
éÓNSU'L,
at preCent,:is ap officer
ellablilh~d
by firtue of
fall out.
a'comlllil
!i.oo·(rom the If.ing aod other prinm,
ip
all
CO'NTlNG~NTS
are (ometimes uled by mathematiciansio
foreign counuies qf any eoaGdmble
tr~de,
tO facllitate
the faOle fenfe as ungent. See T
A
HG '
NT.
and
difp~tch
buGoen, and proteél the merchants of the CONTI
NU t D
pr.porlion,
in arithmetic, is that where
nation . '[he conruls are to keep up a correfpoadence
the confequeot of the firfi ratio is the fame with the
with the minillers of England reGdmg io the coum
aotecedent of the Ceeood; as 4 : 8 :: 8 :
16,
in con·
whereon tbeir conrulate depends. They are
10
fup·
tradillioélion tO diCcrete proportion.
port the commerce
a~d,
the interell of the nation
j
to CON rINUITY, is defined by fome Ceboolme9 tl¡e im·
difpofe of tbe fums¡;Ivea and the pr&nts made ro the
mediate cohefion of pans in the fame quantum :i: by
lords 'aod
princip~
of places, to obtaio their protelli.
others, a mode of body, whereby its
extren\iti!'SC~
on, aod preveot the iofu!ts of the oatives on the Oler·
come cae
j
~nd
by others, a fiate of body reCuhing
chaots of the nation.
from the mutual implication of its parts.
Ther~
are
CONSUMMATION, the end or complction of the
t\VO kinds of conrinuity, mathematical aod phyficd.
WOI
k. Thus we fay,
th~
conCummatÍoo of all thíngs,
The firll is merely imaginary, fince it fuppores realor
mean:ng ,he wond.
phy6eal parts where there are none.
CONSUMPTlON, in medicine, a word of
very
excen·
PhyGcal cootinuitf is that Ilateof tWO or'more par·
[lve figoiticatioa, implies all diforders that briog any
tieles, io which their pans are fo mutually implicated
decay or wafie upon the con(lItution
j
but is moti ufed
as to coafiitute one uniaterrupted quantity, or cooti-
for the phthifis pulmooalis. See MEDI CINE.
nuum.
CONTACT, is when one line, plane, or body, is made CONTINUO, io muGe, 6gni6es the thorough bafs, as
to touch another, and Ihe pam that do thus touch,
balfo continuo is the continual orthorough bafs, which
are called the points or places of coma,
is fometimes marked in muGe books bythe lellers B,C.
CONTAGION, in phyGc, the commuoieating a aireafe CONTORSION,
iD
medicine, has many fignificltions,
[rom one ljody to another. In fome difeaC,s
tt
is on·
l .
Ir
denotes tbe iliac pallion.
2.
An incomplete
~ir-
Iy eil'eéled by
a~
immediate contaél or touch, as the
loeatioa, when abone is in part, but not entirfly', foro
fenom of the pox; io others, it is eonveyed by iD·
ced from its articulatioo. 3, Adiflocatioa of the ver-
feéled eloaths, as the iteh
j
and in others, it,is traof·
tebra: of the back Gde. ways, or a erookednefs ofthefe
mitted through the air at a eonfiderable dillance, by
vertebra:. · And, 4. Adiforder of the head, in whieh
meaos of fieams or ellluvia expiring from the fick, as
it is drawo towards one fide, either by a fpafmodic
in the plague and other pellneotial dlfordm, in which
contraélion of the mufcles on the fame fide , or a palfy
cafe the air is faid to be contagious.
orthe antagonill muCcles
00
the other.
CON'tEMl'LATION, an aél of the mind, whereby it CO lTOUR, in paiatiDg, the out·line, or that whieb
applies itfelf tO coofider and refleél upon (he IVorks of
defines a figure.
God,' nature,
&c.
A great part of the /kili of the painter ties
iD
ma~a·
CONTE~IPORARY,
a perron or thiog thal exilled in
giog the contours well. Contaur, with the Italiao
theJame .agc with anotber. Thus, Socrates, PIalo,
paioters, r,gni6e, the lineaments of!he facc.
aod Arinophanes, were contempora,¡es.
'CONTOURNE, in heraldry, is ured when a
be~ll
i!
CONTENT, in
g~ometry,
fhe
a~ca
or quaDtitv of
repreC:oted flanding or runniog wilh its face to the .6•
.
~at,ltr
or fpace includedin certain bouads. See GEO'
n;Ucr Gcle of the &utcheon. toey beiog'.always fuppo-
~\
EP
Y.
fcd tOlook tO
th~
right, if OOt otherwile expre/fed.
coN'n:ssA,
a
port.to\VO of Turkey, io Europe in CONTOURNIATED, a term among antiquaries ap'
the 'province of Macedonia, Gtuatéd,on
~
bay
oflíhe
plicd to med;,ls, the cdgps of which appear as
IÍ
turned
A'rchipelago, .bout
200
miles ,well
of
Conllantinople:
in a lath. This rOrt of work Ceems to have had ilS o·
E. long.
'So ,
and N. lat.
41°.
rigin in Greeee, and to have been der,gned tO perpe·
CONTEXT, among divines and critics, that part of
tuate thememorics of great men, particularly thofe who
Ccíipture or of a wriliag that precedes and follow5 tbe
had bGre away .he prize <1t the folemn games. .such
·tellt.
are