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rfireftion, having numerous hays on the weft fide, on 

 which are two i'ettlements, Carboniere and Havre de 

 Grace. Settkmcnts were made here in 1610, by about 

 forty planters, under governor John Guy, to whom king 

 James had srranttd a patent of incorporation. 



CONCEPTION, by the Indians called Peiico, a city in 

 Chili, South America, belonging to (he Spaniards, fitu- 

 ated on the edge of the fea, at tlie mouth of a river, and 

 at the bottom of a b.ay of its own name. It was feveral. 

 times deftroyeJ by the powerful confederacy of the In- 

 dians, and as olten repaired. In 1751 it was dellroycd 

 by an earthquake, or rather fwallowcd up by the fea, and 

 fince that rebuilt, at three leagues diltance from the old 

 city. It is within the audience and jurifdiif ion of S;. 

 Jago, and is governed by a correlndor. The Spanilh in- 

 habitants here, are the molt warii.ke and hardy of any in 

 South America; they are all trained to arms from their 

 childhood, to be ready to refill the attacks of the Chilefe 

 Indians, whom, according to Perouze, who vifited Chili 

 in 1781'), they have realon to confider as a formidable ene- 

 my.. The native inhabitants, and even the women, excel 

 in horfemanlhip ; they are very dextrous in managing 

 the lance or noole ; and it is v#ry rare to fee them mils 

 their aim, though at full fjSeed, with the noole, which 

 they throw forty or fifty yards, and fo halter the object of 

 their diverfion or revenge. This noofe is made of thongs 

 of cow hide; thele they twift with oil, till rendered fup- 

 ple and pliant to command; and lb ftrong that, when 

 twilted, they will, it is faid, hold a wild bull, which would 

 break 3 halter of hemp of twice the thicknefs. The foil 

 here is fruitful, abounding with coin and excellent wine. 

 The fruit trees bear fo luxuriantly iiere, that they are 

 forced to thin the fruit, otherwife the branches would 

 break, nor could the fruit come to maturity. This city 

 has a church, and fix very famous monalteries ; but the 

 dwelling houl'es make no great appearance. Here the 

 women go out in the night to the (hops, to buy fuch ne- 

 celfaries as they want for their families, it being contrary 

 to the cuitoni of this country for women of any charafler 

 to go abroad in the day-time on fuch affairs. It is an 

 'Open town ; and the few batteries it has, are kept in very 

 indirt'erent order. Lat. 36. 35. S. Ion. 55. 10. \V. Ferro. 



CONCEP'TiON, a river of America, on the ilthmus 

 of Darien, which runs into the Spanilh main. Lat. 9. 4. N. 

 Ion. 78. ij. W. Greenwich. 



CONCKP'lION, or Conception de los Pampas, a 

 town of South America, in Paraguay, on the fouth fide of 

 the river Plata. Lat. 36. 30. S. Ion. 39. 15. W. Ferro. 



CONCEP'TiON (La), a feaport town of America, in 

 the province of Veragua, on the Spanilh main, with a har- 

 bour, formed by the river Veragua : ninety miles well of 

 Panama. Lat. S. 52. N. Ion. 6+. ■;. W. Ferro. 



CONCEPTION OF SALAVE, a fmall town of North 

 America, in the province of Mechoacan, in Mexico, built 

 by the Spaniards, as well as the Itations of St. Michael 

 and St. Philip, to fecure the road from Mechoacan to 

 the filver mines of Zacatea. They have alio given this 

 name to feveral towns of America ; as to that in Hifpa- 

 niola ifland, and to a leaport of California, &c. 



CONCEP'TION DE LA VEGA (La), a town of the 

 ifland of St. Domingo. 



CONCEP'TIOUS, adj. [coiiceptum, Lat.] Apt to con- 

 ceive ; fruitful; pregnant: 



Common mother, 

 Enfear thy fertile and conceptions womb; 

 Let it no more bring out to ingrateful man. Shakefpeare. 



CONCEP'TIVE, adj. {conceptii-n, Lat.] Capable to con- 

 ccive.— In hot climates, and where the uterine parts ex- 

 ceed in lieat, by the coldnefs of this fimple they may be 

 reduced into a co?icepti've conititution, Broivn. 



To CONCE'R.N, 'Tj. a. [coiscerner, Fr. concemo, low Lat.] 

 To relate, to; to belong to. — This place concerns not at ■ 

 all the dominion of one brotjier over the other. Locke, 



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Gracious things 

 Thou haft reveal'd ; thole chiefly which concern 

 Jult Abraham, and his feed. Milton. 



To affeft with fome paflion ; to touch nearly; to be of 

 importance to. — Our wars with France have atftfted us 

 in our moll tender intercfl:s, and concerned us rao^■e than, 

 thole with any other nation. Addifon. 



I would not 

 The caufe were known to them it molt concerns. Skakef. 



To interelt ; to engage by interelt. — Proviilence, where it 

 loves a nation, concerns iticMio own and alVeit the interelt' 

 of religion, by blalling the fpoilers of religious perfonj 

 and places. South. 



Above the reft two goddeffes appear. 



Concern d for each ; here Venus, Juno there. Drydeiu 



To difturb ; to make uneafy. — In one comprefTIng engine 

 I (hut a I'panow, without forcing any air in j and in an. 

 hour the bird began to panf, and be concerned^anA in lefs 

 than an hour and a half to be fick. Oenbam. — To concern 



hjmfelf. To intermeddle; to be bufv Being a hynian, I 



ought not to have concerned wyjilf with fpecuiations which 

 belong to the profeflion. Drydeiu 



CONCE'RN,/ Bulinel's; affair: confidered as relating^ 

 to Ibme. — Religion is no trifling concern, to be performed 

 in any carelels and fuperficial manner. Rogers. 

 Let early care thy main concerns fecure. 

 Things of lefs moment may delays endure. Dcnham. 

 Intereft ; engagement. — When we fpeak of the conflagra- 

 tion of the world, thefe have no concctK in the queitioji. 

 Burnet.. 



No plots th' alarm to his retirements give; 1 

 'Tis all mankind's concern that he iliould live. Drjdeu. 

 Importance; moment. — The mind is Ituniied and daz- 

 zled amidil that variety of objctHs : flie cannot apply her- 

 felf to thofe things which are of the utniolt concern\o\\tr. 

 Addifon. 



Myllerious fecrets of a high concern, 

 And weiglity truths, folid convincing fcnfe. 

 Explain'd by unaffccjled eloquence. Rofcommon. 



Palhon; affeilion ; regard. — Why all this fO/vc^r/; for the 

 poor.' Where the plough has no work, one family can do 

 the bufinefs of fifty. S-ujilt. 



Ah, what concerns did both your fouls divide ! 



Your honour gave us what your love deny'd. Dryden. 



CONCERNANCY, /. [a word coined by Shakefpeare, 

 and put into Hamlet's mouth when ridiculing aifc6led 

 phraleolo^v-] Concernment. — The concernancy, lirr Sihakf. 



CONCERN'EDLY, ad-v With affeClion ; with interelt. 

 — They had more pofitivelv and concernedly wedded his 

 caufe, than they were before underitood to have done. 

 Clarendon. > 



CONCERN'ING, prep, [this word, originally a parti- 

 ciple, has before a noun the force of a prepofition.] Re- 

 lating to; with relation to. — The ancients had nohiglier 

 recourfp than to nature, as may appear by a difcourie 

 concerning this point in Strabo. Broi.vn. 



CONCERN'MENT, /. The thing in which we are 

 concerned or interelted; affair; bufiuefs; interell. — Our 

 Ipiritual interells, and the great concernments oi -^ future 

 flate, (hould doulitlels recur often. Atterbury. 



Yet when we're fick, the doctor's fetch'd in hafte, 

 Leaving our great concernment, to the lalt. Denham, 



Relation ; influence : 



He jullly fears a peace with me would prove 



Of ill concernment to his haughty love. Dryden, 



Intercourfe; bufinefs. — The great concernment of men is 



with men, one amongfl: another, Locke. — Importance ; mo- 



meiiti — I look upon experimental truths as matters of great 



E. concernment. 



