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offences and all prosecutions for them 

 abolished; but if any pretend to witch- 

 craft, or conjuration, or to tell fortunes, 

 or, from skill in occult or crafty science, 

 to discover goods or chattels stolen, 

 they shall be imprisoned a year, and 

 stand in the pillory once a quarter, and 

 may be ordered to give security for good 

 behaviour, 



CONNARUS, in botany, a genus of 

 the Monadelphia Decandria class and or- 

 der. Natural order of Dumosx. Tere- 

 bintaceae, Jussieu. Essential character : 

 style one, stigma simple ; capsules two- 

 valved, one-celled, one seeded. There 

 are four species, natives ol warm cli- 

 mates. 



CONOCARPUS, in botany, Jamaica 

 button tree, a genus of the Pentandria 

 Monoygnia class and order. Natural or- 

 der of Aggregate. Elxagni, Jussieu. 

 Essential character : petals five, or none ; 

 calyx, bell form ; seeds naked, solitary, 

 inferior; flowers aggregate. There are 

 three species found in the West Indies, 

 where the natives use the bark for tan- 

 ning leather. 



CONOID, in geometry, a solid body, 

 generated by the revolution of a conic 

 section about its axis. 



CONOPEA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Dielynamia Angiospermia class and or- 

 der. Natural order of Lysimachiae, Jus- 

 sieu. Essential character : calyx five- 

 cleft ; corolla ringent, two-lipped, lower 

 lip trifid ; stigma two-lobed ; capsule one 

 celled, four-valved, many seeded. There 

 is but one species, viz. C. aquatica, a na- 

 tive of Guiana, flowering in June. 



CONOPS, in natural history, a genus 

 of insects of the order Diptera. Generic 

 character : mouth with a projecting geni- 

 culate proboscis ; antennae clavate, and 

 pointed at the end. There are 22 .spe- 

 cies in two sections. A. sucker, genicu- 

 late near the base, with a single-valved 

 abbreviated sheath, inclosing a single 

 bristle. B. sucker, geniculate at the base 

 and middle, the sheath with two equal 

 valves. The insects of this genus are re- 

 markably active, and are found in gar- 

 dens, where they subsist on the necta- 

 reous juices of flowers ; their larvae are 

 not known. In the true conopsthe head 

 is large and nearly hemispherical ; the 

 eyes large and almost oval ; and the an- 

 tennae formed of three articulations, the 

 middle one of which is long and cylindri- 

 cal the last joint terminating in a little 

 point. 



CONSANGUINITY, the relation sub- 

 sisting between persons of the same 



blood, or who are sprung from the same 

 root. 



Consanguinity terminates in the sixth 

 and seventh degree, excepting in the 

 succession of the crown, in which case it 

 is continued to infinity. 



Marriage is prohibited by the church 

 to the fourth degree of consanguinity in- 

 clusive : but by the law of nature, consan- 

 guinity is no obstacle to marriage, except 

 it be in the direct line. 



CONSCIENCE, in ethics, a secret 

 testimony of the soul, whereby it gives 

 its approbation to things that are natu- 

 rally good, and condemns those that are 

 evil. 



CONSCRIPTS, men raised to recruit 

 the French armies. All men capable of 

 bearing arms in France and its depen- 

 dencies are registered, and, AY hen called 

 upon by the government, are obliged to 

 join the arrny on any service. 



CONSEQUENCE, in logic, the conclu- 

 sion, or what results from reason or argu- 

 ment. 



CONSEQUENT of a ratio, in mathema- 

 tics, the latter of the two terms of a ratio, 

 or that to which the antecedent is com- 

 pared ; thus is m : ?z, or m to u ; n is the 

 consequent, and m the antecedent. 



CONSERVATOR, an officer ordained 

 for the security and preservation of the 

 privileges of some cities and communi- 

 ties, having a commission to judge of 

 and determine the differences among 

 them. 



CONSERVATOR of the peace, in our an- 

 cient customs, a person who had a special 

 charge to keep the king's peace. Till the 

 appointment of Justices of the peace by 

 Edward III., there were several persons, 

 who, by common law, were interested in 

 keepingthesame:somehavingthat charge 

 as incident to other offices, and others 

 called conservators of the peace. Those 

 that were so by virtue of their office still 

 continue, but the latter are superseded by 

 the modern justices. The chamberlain of 

 Chester is still aconservator in that coun- 

 ty ; and petty constables are, by the com- 

 mon law, conservators, c. of the king's 

 peace. The king's majesty is, by his of- 

 fice and dignity royal, the principal con- 

 servator of the peace within all his domi- 

 nions, and may give authority to any other 

 to see the peace kept.and to punish < uch 

 as break it; hence it is usually calle 1 the 

 king's peace. 



CONSERVATORY, a term sometimes 

 used for a green-house, or ice-house. 



CONSERVE, a form of medicine. See 

 PHARMACY. 



