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THK STANDARD DICTIONARY OF FACTS 



To confirm is applied to 

 what U partial, if not teim*>rary; to Wtabtkh t. that 



To Con rim 



which w permanent and of importance: as to confirm 

 a report, to establish a reputation, to confirm a treaty 

 or alliance, to establish a trade or a government. 



Co3to7m.bis Agreeable. I Conformable 



b employed for matters of obligation; agreeable for 

 matters of choice; suitable for matters of propriety 

 and discretion. What is conformable accords with some 

 prescribed form or given rule of others; what is agree- 

 able accords with the feelings, tempers, or judgments 

 of ourselvee or others; what is suitable accords with 

 outward circumstances. 



md. i.. Confuse. A person confounds 



one thing with another; objects become ooofOMd, <>r 



a person confuse* himself. It is a common error among 



. ..-.,:. , faun ' namea, and unonf ahu- 



have their ideas confused on commencing a 



To Confront. Face. Confront implies to set face to 

 fare: and face signifies to set the faee toward :iuy object. 

 \\ ,-.,., MI on nted; : , perm IMM danger. 



Condi-ion. IM-ordrr. ',.,, fusion supposes the ab- 

 sence of all order; disorder the derangement of order 

 when - is supposed to exist. 



lis pn .\.-. Oppugn. To con- 

 fute rtvpects what is arpumentative; refute what is 

 practical and personal; disprove whatever is represented 

 or related; oppugn what is held or maintained. An 

 argument is confuted by proving its fallacy; a charge 

 i* refuted by proving the innocence of the party charged; 

 an assertion is disproved by proving that it is incorrect; 

 a doctrine is oppugned by a course of reasoning. 



MIL < t. ( omhine. I nite. What is connected 



:ibmed remains distinct, but what is united loses 



all in<livitluality. Things the most dissimilar may be 



connected or combined; things of the same kind only 



can be united. Houses are connected by means of a 



common passage; the armies of two nations are com- 



: : two armies of the same nation are united. 



( omit < -lion. KHation. Families are connected with 

 ior by the ties of blood or marriage; persons are 

 connected with each other in the way of trade or busi- 

 ness; objects stand in a certain relation to each other, 

 as persons stand in the relation of giver and receiver, 

 or of debtor and creditor. 



Conqueror. Victor. A conqueror is always supposed 

 to add something to his possessions; a victor gains 

 nothing but the superiority. Those who take possession 

 of other men's lands by force of arms make a conquest; 

 those who excel in any trial of skill are the victors. 



.11 -MI. IVrmlt, Allow. As the act of an equal 

 we consent to that in which we have a common interest 

 tiers; we permit or allow what is for the accom- 

 modation of others; we allow by abstaining to oppose; 

 we permit by a direct expression of our will; contracts 

 are formed by the consent of the parties who are inter- 

 ested; the proprietor of an estate permits his friends 

 to sport on his grounds; he allows of a passage through 

 his premises; a parent consents to the establishment of 

 his children; he permits them to read certain books; 

 be allows them to converse with him familiarly. 



Consequent*-. KlTVrt, Result, Issue, Event. A 

 consequence is that which follows of itself, without any 

 qualification or restriction; an effect is that which is 

 effected or produced, or which follows from the connec- 

 tion between the thing effecting, as a cause, and the 

 thing effected; a result is general, following from a 

 whole: there may be many consequences from the same 

 thing, and but one result only; we speak of the issue 

 of a negotiation or a battle, and the event of a war. 

 The fate of a nation sometimes hangs on the issue of a 

 battle; the measures of government are often unjustly 

 praised or blamed according to the event. 



I .. ( on-idiT, to Reflect. Consideration is employed 

 for practical purposes; reflection for matters of specula- 

 tion fir moral improvement. Common objects call for 

 ration; the workings of the mind itself, or ob- 

 jects purely spiritual, occupy reflection. 



I" Consider, Regard. There is more caution or 

 thought in considering; more personal interest in re- 

 garding. To consider is to bear in mind all that pru- 

 r propriety suggests; to regard is to bear in 

 mind all that our wishes or interests suggest. 



< "Moderation, Reason. The consideration influ- 

 ences particular actions; the reason determines a line 

 of conduct. 



< on sonant. Accordant, Consistent. Consonant is 

 employed in matters of representation; accordant in 

 matters of opinion or sentiment; consistent in matters 

 of conduct. 



Constancy, Stability, Steadiness, Firmness. 

 Constancy respects the affections; stability the opinions; 



steadiness the action, or the motives of action; firmness 

 the purpose or resolution. 



|,i < Mii-iiiiitr. Appoint, Depute. To constitute is 

 the act of a body; to appoint and depute, either of a 

 body or an individual: a community constitutes any 

 one their leader; a monarch appoints his numbers; 

 whoever is deputed has private and not public author- 

 ity; his office is partial, often confined to the particular 

 transaction of an individual, or a body of individuals. 



I'o Consult. Deliberate. Consultations always re- 

 quire two persons at least; deliberations may be carried 

 on either with a man's self or with numbers; an individ- 

 ual may consult with one or many; assemblies com- 

 monly deliberate. 



Consummation, Completion. Wishes are con- 

 summated; plans are completed. 



Contagion, Infection. We consider contagion as 

 to the manner of spreading from one body to another; 

 we consider infection as to the act of its working itself 

 into the system. Whatever acts by contagion acts im- 

 mediately by direct personal contact; whatever acts by 

 infection acts gradually and indirectly, or through the 

 medium of a third body, as clothes, or the air when 

 infected. 



Contagious, Epidemical, Pestilential. The con- 

 tagious applies to that which is capable of being caught , 

 and ought not, therefore, to be touched; the epidemical 

 to that which is already caught or circulated, and 

 requires, therefore, to be stopped; the pestilential to 

 that which may breed an evil, and is, therefore, to be 

 removed; diseases are contagious or epidemical; the 

 air or breath is pestilential. 



To Contaminate, Defile, Pollute, Taint, Corrupt. 

 Whatever is impure contaminates; what is gross and 

 vile in the natural sense denies, and in the moral sense 

 pollutes; what is contagious or infectious corrupts; and 

 what is corrupted may taint other things. 



To Contemplate, Meditate, Muse. Different 

 species of reflection are marked by these terms. We 

 contemplate what is present or before our eyes; we 

 meditate on what is past or absent. The heavens and 

 all the works of the Creator are objects of contemplation; 

 the ways of Providence are fit subjects for meditation. 

 One muses on events or circumstances which have been 

 just passing. 



Contemptible, Contemptuous. Contemptible is 

 applied to the thing deserving contempt; contemptuous 

 to that which is expressive of contempt. A production 

 is contemptible: a sneer or look is contemptuous. 



To Contemn, Despise, Scorn, Disdain. Contemn 

 signifies to pollute or render worthless, which is the cause 

 of contempt. Despise signifies to look down upon, 

 which is a strong mark of contempt; scorn signifies 

 stripped 9f all honors and exposed to derision, which 

 situation is the cause of scorn; disdain signifies to hold 

 altogether unworthy. 



To Contend, Contest, Dispute. To contend is 

 simply to exert a force against a force; to contest is to 

 struggle together for an object; to dispute, according 

 to its original meaning, applies to opinions only, and is 

 distinguished from contend in this, that the latter 

 signifies to maintain one's own opinion, and' the former 

 to call in question the opinion of another. 



Contentment, Satisfaction. Contentment lies in 

 ourselves; satisfaction is derived from external objects. 

 One is contented when one wishes for no more: one is 

 satisfied when one has obtained all one wishes; con- 

 tentment is within the reach of the poor man, to whom 

 it is a continual feast; but satisfaction has never been 

 procured by wealth, however enormous, or ambition, 

 however boundless. 



Continual, Perpetual, Constant. What is con- 

 tinual admits of no interruption: what is perpetual 

 admits of no termination. There may be an end to that 

 which is continual, and there may be intervals in that 

 which is perpetual. Constant, like continual, admits 

 of no interruption, and it also admits of no change; 

 what is continual may not always continue in the same 

 state; but what is constant remains in the same state. 



Continual, Continued. What is continual may 

 have frequent pauses; what is continued ceases only to 

 terminate. 



Continuance, Continuation, Duration. The con- 

 tinuance is said of that which itself continues; the con- 

 tinuation of that which is continued by some other 

 agency: as the continuance of the rain ; the continuation 

 of a history, work, line, etc.; things are of long or short 

 duration by comparison. 



To Continue, Remain, Stay. To continue is asso- 

 ciated with a state of action; to remain with a state of 

 rest; we are said to continue to speak, or do anything, 

 to remain stationary, or in a position: stay is a volun- 

 tary act; as to stay at a friend's, or with a friend. 



