Commercial Court
Commercial Court. A Court Consti Tuted Of Judges Of The King's Bench Division. In England, For The Trial Of Commercial Eaucs That Is, Of Causes Arising Out Of The Ordinary Transactions Of Merchants And Traders. Such As Those Relating To The Construction Of Mercantile Documents, The Export Or Import Of ...
Commercial Traveler
Commercial Traveler. A Repre Sentative Of A Wholesale Or Jobbing House, Sent Throughout The Country For The Purpose Of Selling Goods To Smaller Imases In The Same Line Of Trade. The Commercial Traveler Is The Legitimate Suc Cessor Of The Old Peddler, Though His Operations Are On A Larger Scale. ...
Commissary
Commissary (er. Commissaire, Ml. Com Wissarius, Commissary, One Intrusted With A Com Mission). An Officer Of The Subsistence Depart Ment Of The United States Army. This Bureau Is Organized To Provide For The Distribution And Expenditure Of Funds Appropriated For The Food Of Enlisted Men, And For Purchasing Articles Kept ...
Commission
Commission (lat. Commissio, Commission, From Committere, To Commit, From Co-in-, To Gether Mittere, To Send). The Name Applied To Boards Created For Governmental Purposes, Generally Of A Temporary Nature. They Have Proved Effective Agencies For Dealing -with Certain Phases Of International Relations And Controver Sies, And For This Purpose Are ...
Committee
Committee (lat. Cotnmittere, To Intrust). A Group Of Persons, Rarely Less Than Three, To Whom An Organized Body, Legislative Or Otherwise, Intrusts Or Commits Certain Matters For Investi Gation, Consideration, And Decision As To Their Meriting The Attention Of The Whole Body. A Standing Committee Is One Which Exercises Its ...
Commodus
Com'modus, .1;:mus Aurelius. A Roman Emperor (a.d. 180-192). He Was Born In A.d. 161, And Was The Son Of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Great Pains Were Taken With His Education. But The Solicitude Of His Father Was All To No Purpose. Commodus Waited Only For An Opportunity To Exhibit As Startling ...
Common Assurance
Common Assurance. The Technical De Scription Of The Ordinary Processes For Conveying The Title To Land. The Term Assurance Was Also Employed, Without The Qualifying Adjective, In Such Phrases As 'a Covenant To Make Further As Surance' (meaning A Covenant To Protect The Title Conveyed By Making Or Procuring The ...
Common Law
Common Law. The Great Body Of English Unwritten Law (from Which Also Is, In The Main, Derived The Common Law Of The English Colonies And Of The United States), As Distinguished From Written On Statutory Law, From The Roman Civil Law-, From International Law-, And From The Sys Tems Of ...
Common Recovery
Common Recovery. At Common Law, A .mode Of Alienation, Or Process For Conveying Land, Through The Medium Of A Fictitious Snit In The Superior Courts Of Law-. There Is No Reason To Doubt The Tradition, To Which Blackstone Has Given The Weight Of His Authority. That This Method Of Conveyance ...
Common Schools
Common Schools. Since Instruction Has, At Least In Modern Times. Been Provided For The Great Majority Of The People. The Term Common Schools Implies That The Schools Are For The Masses Of The People, Or. Where Class Distinctions Are Drawn, For The Common People. The Term, As Used In The ...
Common Of
Common (of'. Comun, Fr. Commun, From Lat. Communis, Olat. Comoinis, Common). Lit The Law Of Real Property, The Right Of One Person, In Common With Others, To Take A Profit From The Land Of Another. The Person Over Whose Land The Right Is Exercised May Be A Private Owner Or ...
Commune Of Paris 1871
Commune Of Paris ( 1871 ). This Is Com Monl• Referred To When The Term Is Used Without Qualification. It Was The Insurrectionary Body, Or Organized Mob, Which Was In Possession And Control Of Paris From March Is To Nay 27. The German Army Of Occupation Left Paris March 3, ...
Communion In Both Kinds
Communion In Both Kinds. A Term Of Theology. Implying That, In The Celebration Of The Lord's Supper. Communicants Partake Of Both The Bread And The Wine. It Is Universally Ac Knowledged That In The Primitive Church Both The Bread And The Cup Were Distributed To All Who Communed. Sects Which, ...
Communism
Communism (fr. Corn Mu Nism E, From Coin M Un, Joint, Common, From Lat. Corn M Un Is, Com Mon). A System Of Society In Which Private Property Is Abolished And All Goods Are Held In Common. The Needs Of Each Individual Being Supplied From Public Sources. It Is Unfortunate ...
Communism In America
Communism In America. The Centre Of Inter Est In Communism Is Henceforth In America. One Of The Provisions In The 'oldest American Charter' (1606) Was That There Should Be A Common Store House In Which The Products Should Be Kept, And From Which Each Should Receive According To His Needs. ...
Communistic Societies
Communistic Societies. Social, And, Frequently, Religious Associations Based On The General Principle Of Each Member Eontrilmting All His Possessions, Labor, And Earnings To A Com Mon Stock, In Which All Members Share Alike. As Is Pointed Out More Fully In The Article Commu Nism (q.v.), Such Expedients Have Been Adopted ...
Comnenus
Comne'nus (lat., From Gk. Lionviiv6s, Korn N(nos). The Name Of A Family. Originally From Paphlagonia. Of Which Several Members Occu Pied The Throne Of The Byzantine Empire, From 1057 To 1204. And That Of Trebizond, From 1204 To 1461. After The Fall Of Constantinople One Branch Of The Family Settled ...
Company
Company (from Fr. Compagair. Op, Co. Panic, It. Rompagnia, From Lat Earn-, Together Penis, Bread). A Number Of Persons Associ Ated Together In A Joint Enterprise, Usually Of A Mercantile Character. Rilartered Companies. As A Legal Term, 'company' Was First Employed In Conneetion With The Great Chartered Companies Of The ...
Comparator
Com'para'tor (lat.. Comparer. From Corn Parare, To Compare, From Coin-, Together Pat-, Equal). An Instrument, Used In Comparing The Lengths Of Two Graduated Scales And In Deter Mining Accurately The Amount Of Their Differenee. It Consists Essentially Of Two Microscopes, Each Fitted With Cross-hairs And Capable Of Being Moved By ...
Comparison Of
Comparison (of. Cow Pamistin, Fr. Cent Paraison, From Lat. Corn/a/ratio, From Eomparare, To Compare). In Grammar, And As Applied To Adjectives (q.v.). That Which Marks The Degree In Which The Quality Is Attributed To The Object, As Compared With Other Objects. There Are Three Degrees Of Comparison. The Positive In ...
Compass Of
Compass (of., Fr. Minims, Compass, From Me. Eompassys, Circle, From Lat. Corn.-, Together + ',assns. Step. From Pander. To Spread Out ). The Most Important Instrument Used In The Nav Igation Of A Ship. It Consists Of A Number Of Magnetic Needles Placed With Their Axes Parallel; A Framework Supporting ...
Competition
Competition (lat. Competitio, Rivalry, From Competere, To Vie, From Con-, Together Veterc, To Seek). This Term Has Been Defined As The Struggle For Existence Carried Into Human Affairs. It Is, In General, The Conflict Of Efforts Directed To The Same Goal. In This Sense It Is Applied To The Method ...
Complementarycolors
Complementarycolors. Colorswhich. When Combined. Produce White Light. Examples Of Pairs Of Such Colors Are Given In The Follow Ing Table: Red Green-blue Orange Cyan Blue Yellow Ultramarillo Grendsh-y..11nw Cif Dot Green Purple These Colors May Be Observed Readily With A Simple Polaris•ope, Where Polarized Light From A Nicol's Prism (q.v.) ...
Complex Number
Complex Number. The Steps In The Growth Of The System Of Algebra May Eas Ily He Illustrated By The Roots Of Equations. Thus: The Solution Of The Equation S — 3 = (1 Is 3. A Positive Integer Which May He Represented Graphically On A Straight Line. The Solution Of ...
Composite
Composite, Korn-pozli-til (lat. Nom. Pl., From Compo.situs, P.p. Of Coat/macre, To Put To Gether. From Coin-, Together Ponere, To Put, From Pa-, Gk. Ci73, Apo, Off + Sinew, To Allow). An Order Of Dicotyledonous Plants, Variously Called The Composite Family, Aster Family, Sun Flower Family, And Sometimes Divided And Known ...
Composition
Composition. Besides A Large Proportion Of Fats, Cod-liver Oil Has Been Shown To Contain (1) A Peculiar Principle Called Giluii6 (c.h450,0 ; (2) A Crystalline Substance Called Myrrh Col ( 3) Traces Of Bromine And Iodine: ( T) Bh Hngy Prin Eiples: And Other Substances. The Brown Oils Contain Also ...
Composition_2
Composition (from Of., Fr. Composition, From Lat. Composi(io, Connection, From Compo Ncre, To Put Together). In Painting, That Ordered Arrangement Of Light And Shade, Of Color And Line, Which Shall Directly Impres-s The Beholder With The Thought And Idea The Artist Wishes To Express. The Most Important Requisite Of Com ...
Compost Of
Compost (of. Composte, It. Compostn, Por Tug, Compost°, Mixture, From Lat. Componcrc, To Put Together). A Mixture Of Fertilizing Ma Terials Which Has Been Subjected To Fermentation. Composts Are Usually Prepared By Mixing Animal Manures Or Other Readily Putrescible Substances With Peat (q,v,), Straw, Leaves, Road-scrapings, Mud, Loam, Etc., With ...
Compurgation
Compurgation (lat. Compurgatio, Purl Fication, From Compurgare, To Purify, From Con-, Together ± Pit/ware, To Purge, From Purns, Pure Afiere, To Perform). An Ancient Method Of Proof In Legal Proceedings. It Consisted In The Purgation, That Is, The Purging Or Clearing, Of A Defendant By The Sworn Oaths Of A ...
Comstock Lode
Comstock Lode. A Remarkable Compound Fissure Vein, Rich In Gold And Silver, Located In Storey County, Nev., On The Eastern Slope Of Mount Davidson. A Northeastern Spur Of The .sierras, At A Point About 20 Miles East Of The California State Line. Its Discovery In 1859, When It Received The ...
Comte
Comte, Kont, 'isidore Auguste Marie Fran Cois Racier (1798-1857). A Celebrated French Philosopher, The Founder Of The Positive Phi Losophy, Or Positivism (q.v.). Lie Was Born At :montpellier, And Educated At The Ecole Poly Technique In Paris, From Which He Was Expelled For His Part In A Protest Of Students ...
Comyn
Comyn, Knin'in. A Family Which Rose To Great Power And Eminence In Scotland After The Norman Conquest. The Name Is Also Spelled Comm.ll Com Tics, Or Cumin.—rotwarr De Comyn, The Founder Of The Family, Was Probably From Flanders, And Followed William Tile Conqueror To England. He Was Made Earl Of ...
Conation
Conation (lat. Moo Tio, Attempt. From Conari, To Attempt). An Endeavor, A Striving To Attain Something. The Attempt, E.g. To Re Call A Name Which Has Slipped From Memory Is A Conation. There Is A Difference Of Opinion Among Psychologists As To Whether Collation Is An Ultimate Aspect Of Consciousness ...
Conch
Conch, Kink (lat. Concha, Gk. Tasyxn, Skt. .•41»kha, Shell). • The Name Of Many Large Univalve Mollusks. Originally And Proper Ly It Belongs To The Big Carnivorous Strombs, And Especially To He Great Rose -lined Stromb (titrombus Gigas) Of The West Indies And Flori Da Beefs. More Particularly 'queen Conch.' ...
Conchoid
Conchoid (kou'koid) (gk, So-ixeetaie, Kon Chorides, Mussel-shaped, From Konh, Konelle, Shell + Citlog, Form) Of Nic'ome'des. A 'shell-shaped' Curve Invented By Nicomedes (n.c. 180). It Is Related To The Problems Of Tri Secting An Angle (see Trisection Problesi), Of Constructing Two Geometric Means Between Two Given Straight Lines, And Of ...
Concord
Concord, Itiofkilrd. A Town In Middlesex County, .mass., 20 Miles Northwest Of Boston; On The Concord River And On The Boston And Maine Railroad (map: Massachusetts, E 3). It Has Manufactures Of Rnhher Goods And Harness. The 'massachusetts Reformatory Is Situated Here. The Government Is Administered By Town Meetings. Held ...
Concord_2
Concord. A City, Capital Of New Hamp Shire, And County-seat Of Merrimack County, 75 Miles North-northwest Of Boston; On The Merri River And On The Boston And Maine Rail Road (map: New Hampshire, J 9). It. Has Wide Streets, Shaded And Well Paved. And A Good Water-supply, Owned And Operated ...
Concordance Ml
Concordance (ml. Concordant In, Agree Ment, From Lat. Concordarc, To Agree, From Corn-, Together ± Car, Heart). A Book Arranged In Alphabetical Order, And Showing In What Pas Sages All, Or At Least All Of The More Important, Words In Any Work Occur. For Writings Of Uni Versal Import From ...
Concordat
Concordat (fr., Agreement). A Term Used To Designate A Compact Dealing With Eccle Siastical Affairs Between The Pope. As Bead Of The Roman Catholic Church, And The Temporal Ruler Of A State. Concordats Commonly Relate To Things Which Are Neither Purely Spiritual Nor Purely Temporal, But Mixed Matters, In Regard ...
Concrete
Concrete. An Artificial Stone Composed Of Hydraulic Cement (q.v.), Sand, And Broken Stone Or Gravel, Or Other Hard Material In Small Frag Ments. The Mixture Of Sand And Cement Is Commonly Called The Matrix, And The Broken Stone Or Other Material Is Similarly Called The Aggregate. The Matrix May Be ...
Concrete Masonry Dams
Concrete Masonry Dams Are Not Essentially Different From Other Masonry Structures, Except In Their Composition. (see Cement And Cos Crete.) Perhaps The Most Notable Concrete Dam In The World Is That Near San :mateo, Cal., Built By The Spring Valley Water-wo•ks Company Of San Francisco. This Dam, Which Is Of ...
Concubinage
Concubinage (from Of., Fr. Concubine, From Lat. Concubine, Concubine, From Concumbere, To Lie With, From Corn-, Together + Cubare, To Lie). In General, The Cohabitation As Husband And Wife Of A Man And Woman Who Are Not Lawfully Mar Ried To Each Other. Specifically, A Form Of Poly Gamy In ...
Concurrence Ml
Concurrence (ml. Concurrentia, Con Currence, From Concurrcre, To Run Together, From Con-, Together + Currcrc. To Run) And Col Linearity (from Lat. Corn-, Together + Linca, Line). If Several Lines Have A Point In Common They Arc Said To Be Concurrent. The Common Point Is Called The Focus Or Vertex ...
Concussion Of The Brain
Concussion Of The Brain (lat. Con Cussio, Shock. From Concutcrc, To Shake Together, From Corn-, Together + Quaterc, To Shake). The Name Given To A Group Of Symptoms Which Result From Injuries To The Head, But Are Not Due To Fracture Or To Perceptible Laceration Of Vessels Or Brain Substance. ...
Conde
Conde, Keied3', Family Or. Ope Of The Great Families In France, And A Branch Of The House Of Bourbon. It Took Its Name From The Town Of Conde. (see Conde-surt-l'escatrr.) The First To Bear The Title Of Prince De Conde Was Louis, The Youngest Son Of Charles De Bourbon, Duke ...
Condenser
Condenser ( From Lat. Eondensare, To Thicken, From Corn-, Together + Dens-us. Thick. Gk. Sattiis, Dasys, Thick). Any Device For Reducing Gas Or Vapor To A Liquid Or Solid Form Is Termed A Condenser, Though The Name Is Applied Specific Ally To A Variety Of Apparatus Used In The Arts ...
Condenser_2
Condenser. A Form Of Electrical Appa Ratus Used To Accumulate A Charge Of Electricity, Or, In Other Words, To Store Up Electrical Energy. A Condenser In Its Simplest Form Consists Of Two Conductors Which Are Separated From Each Other By An Insulating Medium Or Dielectric. And Is Illustrated By The ...
Condition
Condition And Conditional. As A Legal Term, Condition Signifies A Provision In A Contract, Conveyance, Grant, Or Will, That An Estate Or Interest In Property, Or A Personal Obli Gation, Shall Depend Upon The Happening Of An Uncertain Event. The Term Is Also Applied To The Event Itself. If The ...
Conditional Limitation
Conditional Limitation. A Fee Simple Estate Limited Or Qualified (a) So As To Come To An End On The Happening Of A Collateral Event, Or (b) So As To Shift From One Owner To Another On Such An Event. The Expression Condi Tional Limitation Is Used In Both These Senses ...
Condor
Condor (sp., From Pcruv. Euntur, Condor). The Great Vulture (sareoramphus Gryphus) Of The Andes, And The Largest Of Known Flying Birds, Unless The Albatross May Sometimes Exceed It. Its Dimensions, However, Have Often Been Far Overstated, The Truth Being That It Varies In Length From 44 To 55 Inches. And ...
Condorcet
Condorcet, Kon'doesc, Marie Jean An Toine Nicolas Caritat, Larquis De (1743-94). A French Mathematician And Philosopher. Ile Was Born At Ribemont, Was Educated By The Jesuits, Won Distinction For Mathematics In His Youth, And Became An Active Member Of The Acad Emy Of Sciences In 1769. Genial, Susceptible, And Enthusiastic, ...
Conduction
Conduction (lat. Conduetio, Union, From Conducerc, To Lead Together, From Cow-, Together Duccrc, To Lead, Connected With Goth. As. Trot, Ohg. Ziohan, Ger. Rich En, To Draw). In Botany, A Term Applied To The Transfer Of Water, Foods, And Other Materials Front One Part Of The Plant Body To Another. ...
Conductor
Conductor (lat., Leader, From Comlucere, To Lead Together). In Music, The Person Who Di Rects The Chorus Or Orchestra, Or Both Combined, And Who Is Responsible For The Interpretation Of The Works Performed By The Artists Under His Direction. A Good Conductor Must Be A Thorough Musician. He Must Have ...
Conductor_2
Conductor And Insulator Of Electricity. The Property Of Electrical Conductivity Is Possessed In Some Degree By All !mown Substances. There Is, However, An Enor Mous Difference Between The Conductivity Of Those That Are Used As Conductors And Those That Are Used As Insulators, The Former Having Many Million Times The ...
Confectionery
Confectionery (from Ml. Confection Arias, Confectioner, From Lat. Confectio, Prepara Tion, From Canficere, To Make Up, From Cam-, To Gether + Faccre, To Make). Preparations Of Sugar, Or Of Material Of Which Sugar Is The Prin Cipal Ingredient, Used As Sweetmeats. Where Confectionery Is Pure Its Use May Involve Little ...
Confederate States Of America
Confederate States Of America. The Name Adopted By The Federation Of Those Eleven Commonwealths Of The United States Of America Which Seceded From The Union In 1861, And Were Arrayed Against The National Govern Ment During The Civil War (q.v.). None Of The Theories Of 'state Sovereignty' Was Inconsistent With ...
Confederation Of The Rhine
Confederation Of The Rhine. A League Of German Princes Formed In 1806 Under The Protection Of Napoleon. The First To Seek The French Alliance Were The Electors Of Bavaria And Wfirttemberg, Who, In Recompense For Their Ser Vices, Were Elevated To The Dignity Of Kings By The Peace Of Presburg, ...
Confession
Confession. In Roman Catholic Theol Ogy, A Declaration Of Sins To A Priest In Order To Obtain Absolution. The Practice Of Confession Is Believed By Roman Catholics To Be Of Divine In Stitution, Being Founded On The Power Of Binding And Loosing From Sin Conferred On The Apostles By Christ ...
Conflict Of Laws
Conflict Of Laws. An Opposition Or Contrariety Between The Laws Of Different Juris Dictions Affecting The Rights Of The Same Indi Vidual. In The Decision Of Legal Controversies Every Court Regularly Applies Its Own Law (icy Foci), I.e. The Law Prevailing Within Its Jurisdic Tion; But Exceptionally, And Not Infrequently, ...
Confucius
Confucius, Kon-walff-fis (latinized Form Of Chinese Thing-p-tze, The Master Kung) (c.551-478 N.c.). The Most Famous Of All The Sages Of China. He Was Born In The State Of Lu In The Province Which Is Now Called Shantung. His Lineage Is Traced By Native Tradition To Hang Ti, One Of The ...
Congo
Congo, Kon'0, Or Kongo (from The Afri Can Tribe Of Osicongo). The Largest, And, Ex Cepting The Nile, The Longest River Of Africa, And In Length, Volume, And Drainage Area, One Of The Great Rivers Of The Earth. It Drains Most Of Cen Tral Africa West Of Longitude 32° E., ...
Congo Free State
Congo Free State. An Independent State Under The Sovereignty Of King Leopold 11. Of Belgium, Situated Approximately Between Longitudes 12° And 30° E. And Between Latitudes 14° S. And 6° N. (map: Africa, 0 5). It Is Bounded On The North By French Congo And The Egyptian Sudan, On The ...
Congregationalism
Congregationalism. A Term Used In Two Signifieations At Present. It Designates A Pe Culiar System Of Church Organization And Govern Ment, And As Such Is Rightly Claimed By A Great Family Of Religious Bodies, Of Which That Popu Larly Called 'congregational' Is Only One. In This Usage, The Word Appropriately ...
Congress
Congress (lat. Eongressus, Conference, From Congrefli, To Meet Together, From Can-, To Gether + Wadi, To Step). In International Affairs. An Assembly Either Of Sovereign Princes Or Of Delegates Of Sovereign States For The Purpose Of Considering Matters Of Common Interest. In The United States, Where The Term Has Now ...
Congruence
Congruence (lat. Congruentia, From Con Gruare, To Agree). In Geometry, Plane Figures Which (*in Be Superposed So As To Coincide Throughout_ Are Said To Be Congruent. This Is The Euclidean Definition Of Equality, And Indi Eates Both Quality Of Area And Similarity Form. The Symbolfor Congruence Signifies These Two Properties. ...
Coniine
Coniine (from Lat. Conium. Gk. Tclivelov, Koncion, Hemlock), The Active Alka Loid Principle Of Hemlock, The Seeds Of The Spotted Hemlock Plant (con Inn! M(ceulatum, Lin Ne). A Volatile Substance, Coniine May Be Readily Obtained From The Seeds By Distilling With Water, Which Contains A Little Soda In Solution; Coniine ...
Conington
Co'nington, Doll ( 1825-69 ) . An Eng Lish Classical Scholar, Born At Boston, Lincoln Shire. He Studied At Rugby, Under Dr. Arnold. In 1838-43. And At Magdalen College. Oxford, In 1843-46, And In 1846 Became A Fellow Of Univer Sity College. In 1849 He Read Law With Much Unwillingness ...
Conjugate
Conjugate (lat. Eonjugatus, P.p. Of Eon Jugure, To Join Together, From Coin-, Together Jugare. To Yoke, From Juguni, Yoke; Connected With Gk. Rtry6v, , Zgyo1., ()church Slay. Igo, Lith. Jnngus, Guth. Juk, Icel. Ok, As. Geoc, Engl. Yoke, Ohg. Job, Ger. Joeh, Skt, Yuga, Yoke). A Term Signifying United In ...
Conjugation
Conjugation. A Term In Grammar Ap Plied To A Connected View Or Statement Of The Changes Of Form That A Verb (q.v.) Undergoes In Its Various Relations. (see Inflection.) The Forms Usually Included Under This Term Are Those That Serve To Mark: (1) Person, Or The Distinc Tion Between The ...
Conjunction
Conjunction (lat. Conjunctio, From Eon Jungcre, To Join Together, From Coin-, Together + Jungere, To Join: Connected With Lat. Jugum, Yoke). One Of The Parts Of Speech, Or Classes Into Which Grammarians Divide Words. Conjunc Tions Serve The Purpose Of Connecting Sentences, Parts Of Sentences, And Single Words: As `day ...
Conjunction_2
Conjunction. In Astronomy, One Of The Aspects (q.v.) Of The Planets. Two Heavenly Bodies Are In Conjunction When They Have The Same Longitude—that Is, When The Same Per Pendienlar To The Ecliptic Passes Through Both. If They Have, At The Same Time, The Same Latitude —that Is, If They Are ...
Conkling
Conk'ling, Roscoe (1829-88). An Ameri Can Politician. He Was Born At Albany, And After Receiving An Academic Education, At The Age Of 17 Began The Study Of Law In The Office Of Spencer And Kernan At Utica. His First Iden Tification With Politics Was In 1848, When He Won Some ...
Connective Tissue
Connective Tissue. The Most Widely Distributed Tissue Of The Body. It. Originates In The Middle Or Mesoblastic Layer Of The Embryo, And The Differentiation Which Occurs And Which Distinguishes The Different Forms Of Connective Tissue Takes Place Mainly In The Intercellularsub Stance. Thus The Intercellular Substance May Be Soft And ...
Conodonts
Co'nodonts (from Gk. Kij Pos, Knows, Cone Mas, °don•, Tooth). Minute Fossil Teeth Of Uncertain Affinities, Found In Rocks Of Ordovician To Permian Age Of North America And Europe. They Are Very Small, Shilling Objects, With More Or Less Extended Bases, From Which Arise One Or Many Slender, Sharp, Short ...
Conquest
Conquest (from Of. Conqueste. Fr. Con Que•te, Sp., Port., It. Eonauista, From Ml. Eon Quista, Conquest, From Lat. Conquirerc, To Pro Cure, From Con-, Together + Qiurrere, To Seek). The Forcible Extension Of Sovereignty By One State Over The Territory Of Another As The Result Of Suc Cessful War. Though ...
Conradin
Conradin (k6n'ra-den) Of Swabia (1252-68). The Son Of Conrad 1v., And The Last Descendant Of The Imperial House Of Hohenstaufen (q.v.). At His Father's Death He Was Only Two Years Old. Innocent Iv. Immediately Seized Upon The Young Prince's Italian Possessions, On The Plea That The Son Of A Prince ...
Consciousness
Consciousness. A Term Employed By Psychology In Two Principal Meanings. (1) In The First Meaning. It Is The Equivalent Of 'mental Endowment' Or 'the Possession Of Mind.' I Am Conscious Of The Objects And Persons About Me, Of My Own Successes Or Shortcomings• Of The Validity Of An Argument Or ...
Consecration
Consecration (lat. Consceratio, From Conscerare, To Hallow, From Together Socrare, To Consecrate, From Sacer, Holy). The Act Of Solemnly Dedicating A Person Or Thing To The Service Of God. It Is One Of The Most Widely Spread Of All Religious Ceremonies Of The Ancient World, Having Been Practiced In Chaldea. ...
Conservatory Ml
Conservatory (ml. Conserratori Vm, Place For Preserving Anything, From Lat. Con Sercare, To Preserve. From Con-, Together + Scr Rare, To Keep, Ar. Liar, To Preserve). A School For The Cultivation Of Music In All Its Branches. Besides Strictly Musical Subjects, Stage Deport Ment And The Modern Languages Used In ...
Consideration
Consideration (lat. Consideratio, From Considerate- To Observe, From Coin-, Together -( Sides, Star). In The Law Of Contracts, In The Case Of A Simple Contract, A Detriment Or The Surrender Of A Right By One Party In Exchange For The Promise Of The Other Party. In Ease Of A Bilateral ...
Consistory
Consistory (lat. Consistoriion, From Con Sisterc, To Stand Together, From Coin-, Together Sistcre, To Station, From Stare, To Stand). Prop Erly A Place Of Assembly, But In Later Latin The Word Came To Mean A Particular Plaee Where The Council Of The Roman Emperor Met, And, After The Time Of ...
Conspiracy Or
Conspiracy (or Conspiracic, Conspiratic, From Lat. Conspirarc, To Conspire, From Corn-, Together Spirarc, To Breathe). As A Criminal Offense This Has Been Judicially Defined As "a Com Bination By Two Or More Persons, By Some Con Certed Action, To Accomplish An Unlawful Purpose, Or To Accomplish A Purpose Not In ...