342 GLOSSARY, 3 eg 
Considerative, adj. Requiring consideration or reflection: p, 126, 
1. 4. Compare Demonstrative. 
Consist, v.i. To stand firm, subsist, remain settled: p. 145, 1. 27; 
p. 209, 1. 13; p. 210, 1.2. Comp. Col. i. 17. ‘Consister. To consist, 
be; rest, reside, abide; to settle, stand still, or at a stay.’ Cotgrave, 
Fr. Dict. 
Consociate, v.t. To associate, unite: p. 72, 1. 32. 
Consort, sb. Fellowship: p. 102, 1. 14. 
Constitute, v.i. To establish: p. 130, 1. 9. 
Construe, v.i. To interpret: p. 50, 1. 33; p. 245, 1. 4. 
‘Construe the times to their necessities.’ 
Shakespeare, 2 Hen, IV, iv. 1. 104. 
Contain, v.¢. To hold in, as the breath: p. 143, 1. Io. 
Contained, ~.~. Restrained: p. 209, 1. 2; p. 261, 1. 22. 
Contemplative, sb. One devoted to contemplation: p. 191, l. I. 
Contend, v.i. To strive, endeavour: p. 22, 1. 6. 
Content, sb. The thing contained: p. 6, 1. 13. 
Contentation, sb. Contentment: p. 13,1. 18. 
Contention, sb, Effort, exertion: p. 104, |. 12; p. 184, 1. 6. 
Contestation, sb. Strife, debate: p. 22,1. 16. ‘Contestation: f. A con- 
testation ; a protestation, taking, or calling to witnesse; also, a contesting, 
striving, debating, reasoning, brabling about a matter.’ Cotgrave, 
Fr. Dict. 
‘Your wife and brother 
Made wars upon me; and their contestation 
Was theme for you,’ Shakespeare, Ant. and Cl. ii. 2. 43. 
Continent, adj. Containing; ‘the cause continent’=the containing 
cause; p. 138, 1. 21. 
Continent, sb. The thing containing: p. 6, 1. 13. 
‘Heart, once be stronger than thy continent, 
Crack thy frail case!’ Shakespeare, Ant. and Cl. iv. 14, 40. 
Continue, v.t. ‘To continue his whcle age’=to devote his whole life 
continuously: p. 79, l. 22. 
Continued, ~.p. Kept, caused to remain: p. 162, 1. 25. 
Contract, sb. Convention, agreement: p. 167, 1. 2. 
Contrariwise, adv. On the contrary: p. 13, 1. 3; p.15, 1.19. See 
2 Cor. ii. 7. 
Contristation, sb. Sadness: p. 5,1. 21. 
Convenient, adj. Suitable: p. 58, 1. 21. 
Conversant, adj. ‘ Are conversant about’=have to do with, are con- 
cerned with: p. 76, l. 32. 
Converse, v.i. To dwell or abide; and so, to associate: p. 43, 1. 16: 
‘I have, since I was three year old, conversed with a magician, most 
profound in his art.” Shakespeare, As You Like It, v. 2. 66. 
Conversion, sb. A turning round, revolving: p. 158, l. 19. 
Convince, v.t. To convict, refute: p. 108, 1. 31. See John viii, 46. 
Copie, sb. Copiousness: p. 29,1. 145 p. 30,1. 43 p. 154, 1. 5. 
Copy. ‘To change copy’=to change, shift about: p. 221,1.15. ‘Then 
Callisthenes changing copy, spake boldly many things against the Mace-~ 
donians.’ North’s Plutarch, Alex. p. 701 (ed. 1631), 
