conclusive 
There is very strong evidence, although it is not cnvrlii- 
sive, that in a given gas say in a vessel full of carbonic 
acid the molecules are not all of the same weight. 
W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 208. 
The argument from the impossibility of a thing to its 
non-existence is final and conclusive. 
Mimrt, Nature and Thought, p. 113. 
2. Specifically, bringing about or leading to a 
logical conclusion ; conforming to the rules of 
the syllogism. 
Men . . . not knowing the true forms of syllogisms 
cannot know whether they are made in right and conclu- 
sive modes and Figures. Locke. 
3. In law, possessing such weight and force 
as not to admit of contradiction Conclusive 
evidence, in law, evidence which precludes further con- 
tradiction of the fact in question ; evidence which, if not 
disproved, precludes dispute on the point it is adduced 
to prove. Thus, a judgment for a debt is said to be con- 
clusive evidence of the indebtedness it establishes, because, 
having been put in evidence against the debtor, he cannot 
usually give other evidence merely in denial of the indebt- 
edness, unless he first gives evidence sufficient to avoid 
the judgment. Such evidence is said to raise a conclusive 
presumption of the fact it is adduced to prove. The 
phrase conclusive evidence is also used, more loosely, of 
evidence which, though not necessarily conclusive, yet, 
not having been contradicted, is sufficient as matter of 
law to oblige a jury to come to the proposed conclusion. 
= Svn. 1. Eventual, Ultimate, etc. (seeyutaO, convincing, 
decisive, unanswerable, irrefutable. 
conclusively (kon-klo'siv-li), adv. In a con- 
clusive manner ; decisively ; with final deter- 
mination: as, the point of law is conclusively 
settled. 
As it is universally allowed that a man when drunk 
sees double, it follows conclusively that he sees twice as 
well as his sober neighbors. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 239. 
collusiveness (kon-klo'siv-nes), n. The qual- 
ity of being conclusive or decisive of argument 
or doubt ; the power of determining opinion or 
of settling a question. 
The conclusiveness of the proof. J. S. Mill, Logic. 
conclusory (kon-klo'so-ri), o. [< L. conclusus, 
pp. of concludere, conclude (see conclude, v.), 
+ -wy.~\ Conclusive. [Rare.] 
COnclusum (kon-klo'sum), n. ; pi. conclusa (-sa). 
[L., prop. neut. of conclusus, pp. of concludere, 
close : see conclude, .] In diplomacy. See ex- 
tract. 
A conclusum is a returns' of the demands presented by 
a government. It may be discussed ; and therein lies its 
difference from an ultimatum, which must be accepted or 
rejected as it stands. Blaclnoood's Mag. 
COncoagulatet (kon-ko-ag'u-lat), v. t. or . [< 
con- + coagulate.'] TJo curdle or congeal to- 
gether ; form, or form into, one homogeneous 
mass. [Bare.] 
For some solutions require more, others less, spirit of 
wine to concoaaulate adequately with them. 
Boyle, Works, I. 442. 
concoagulationt (kon-ko-ag-u-la'shon), re. [< 
concoagulate : see -ation.~\ A coagulating or 
coalescing together, as of different substances 
or bodies into one homogeneous mass ; crystal- 
lization of different salts in the same men- 
struum. 
A concoaffulation of the corpuscles of a dissolved metal 
with those of the menstruum. Boyle, Works, III. 58. 
concoct (kon-kokt'), v. [< L. concoctus, pp. of 
concoquere '(> It. concuoccre), boil together, di- 
gest, prepare, think over, < com-, together, + 
coquere, cook: see cook 1 , t\] I. trans. If. To 
digest. 
After a (cold) Peare, either drinke wine to concoct it, or 
send for the Priest to confesse you. Cotyrave (s. v. vin). 
He must not be called till lu: hath concocted and slept 
his surfeit into a truce and a qmiet respite. 
Jer. Taiflbr, Works (ed. 1835), I. 699. 
2f. To purify or sublime ; refine by removing 
the gross or extraneous matter. 
Than the waters whereof [Nilus] there is none more 
sweet, . . . and of all others most wholesome. . . . Such 
it is in being so concocted by the Sun. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 78. 
3f. To ripen ; develop. 
The root which still continueth in the earth is still con- 
cocted by the earth. Bacon. 
4. To combine and prepare the materials of, 
as in cookery ; hence, to get up, devise, plan, 
contrive, plot, etc. : as, to concoct a dinner or 
a bowl of punch ; to concoct a scheme or a con- 
spiracy. 
Grouse pie, with hare 
In the middle, is fare 
Which, duly concocted with science and care,' 
Doctor Kitchener says, is beyond all compare. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 169. 
That vaunted statesmanship which concocts constitu- 
tions never has amounted to anything. 
W. Phillips, Speeches, p. 375. 
Il.t intrans. 1. To mature; ripen. 
The longer the juice stayeth in the root and stalk, the 
better it amcocteth. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 466. 
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2. To digest. 
For cold maketh appetite, but naturall heate concttctrlh 
or boyleth. Sir T. Klyot, Castle of Health, ii. 
concocter (kon-kok'ter), n. [< concoct + -erl. 
Cf. It. ooneottore, a concocter, F. concoctcur, a 
digestive medicine.] One who concocts. 
This private cottcocter of malcontent. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
concoction (kon-kok'shon), . [= F. concoction 
= Pg. concocgao = It. "concozione, < L. concoc- 
tio(n-), < concoquere, pp. concoctus, digest, pre- 
pare : see concoct.'] If. Digestion. 
Also, the eating of sundrie sorts of meat require often 
pottes of driuke, which hinder concoction. 
Bailees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 252. 
Your words of hard concoction, [your] rude poetry, 
Have much impaired my health ; try sense another while. 
Shirley, Hyde Park, ii. 4. 
Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the 
healthiest concoction. Milton, Areopagitica, p. 10. 
2f. The process by which morbid matter was 
formerly supposed to be separated from the 
blood or humors, or otherwise changed and pre- 
pared to be thrown off ; maturation. 
This hard rolling is between concoction and a simple 
maturation. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
3f. A ripening or maturing; maturity. 
The constantest notion of concoction is, that it should 
signify the degrees of alteration of one body into another, 
from crudity to perfect concoction. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 838. 
All this mellows me for heaven, and so ferments in this 
world, as I shall need no long concoction in the grave, but 
hasten to the resurrection. Donne, Letters, Ixxxii. 
4. The act of preparing and combining the 
materials of anything; hence, the devising or 
planning of anything; the act of contriving or 
getting up : as, the concoction of a medical pre- 
scription, or of a scheme or plot. 
This was an error in the first concoction, and therefore 
never to be mended in the second or third. 
Dryden, fret, to (Edipus. 
5. That which is concocted ; specifically, a mix- 
ture or compound of various ingredients : as, a 
concoction of whisky, milk, and sugar. 
concoctivet (kon-kok'tiv), a. [= Pg. concoctivo; 
as concoct + -ire,] 1. Digestive; having the 
power of digesting. 
Hence the concoctive powers, with various art, 
Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle. 
Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health. 
2. Eipening or tending to ripen or mature. 
The fallow ground, laid open to the sun, concoctive. 
Thomson, Autumn. 
COncolor (kon-kul'or), a. [= F. concolore = It. 
concolore, < L. concoloi; of one color, < com-, to- 
gether, + color, color.] 1. Of one color ; whole- 
colored; not party-colored or variegated in 
color. 2. Of the same color with or as (some- 
thing else) ; having the same colors or colora- 
tion : specifically, in entom., applied to the wings 
of a lepidopterous insect when the upper and 
lower surfaces show the same colors and pat- 
terns. 
Concolour animals, and such as are confined unto one 
color. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 11. 
Also concolorous. 
COncolorate (kon-kul'or-at), a. [As concolor 
+ -ate 1 .] In entom., naving the same color: 
specifically said of the wings when the upper 
and lower surfaces have the same colors and 
patterns, as in some Lepidoptera. 
concolorous (kon-kul'or-us), a. [As concolor 
+ -0s.] Same as concolor. 
It would seem that, unless specially bred by concolor- 
ous marriages, blue-eyed belles will be scarce in the Mil- 
lennium. Science, IV. 367. 
concomitance, concomitancy (kon-kom'i-tans, 
-tan-si), n. [< F. concomitance = Sp. Pg. con- 
comitancia = It. concomitanza, < ML. concomi- 
tantia, < LL. eoncomitan(t-)s, concomitant: see 
concomitant.^ 1. The state of being concomi- 
tant; a being together or in connection with 
another. 
The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in con- 
comitancy with the other. Sir T. Browne. 
2. In Bom. Cath. theol., the coexistence of the 
body and blood of Christ in the single eucha- 
ristic element of bread, so that those who par- 
take of the consecrated host receive him in full. 
Also concomitation. 
And therefore the dream of the Church of Rome that 
he that receives the body receives also the blood, because 
by concomitance the blood is received in the body, is 
neither true nor pertinent to this question. 
Jer. Taylor, Rule of Conscience, ii. 3. 
3. In math., a relation between two sets of 
variables such that, when those of one set are 
concord 
replaced by certain functions of themselves, 
those of the other set are also replaced by cer- 
tain determinate functions of themselves. 
Simple concomitance, in math., such a relation between 
two sets of variables that, when the first set is replaced by a 
set of linear functions of that first set, the second set is also 
replaced by a set of linear functions of that second set, the 
coefficients of the two sets of linear functions being re- 
lated together in a definite manner. The principal kinds 
of simple concomitance are coyredicnt-y and cuntrayredi- 
ence. 
COncomitaneoust (kon-kom-i-ta'ne-us), a. [As 
cottcomit-ant + -aneous.] Accompanying. 
Concomitaneoiis with most of other vices. 
t'eltham, Resolves, ii. 56. 
concomitant (kon-kom'i-tant), a. and n. [= 
F. concomitant = Sp. Pg. It. concomitante, < 
LL. concomitait(t-)s, ppr. of coticomitari, accom- 
pany, < L. com-, together, + comitari, accom- 
rny, < comes (comit-), a companion : see cott 2 .] 
a. Accompanying; conjoined with ; concur- 
rent ; attending : used absolutely or followed by 
with or to. 
It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several ob- 
jects ... a concomitant pleasure. Locke. 
As the beauty of the body accompanies the health of it, 
so certainly is decency concomitant to virtue. 
Hughes (quoted by Crabb). 
Re-distributions of Matter imply concomitant re-distri- 
butions of Motion. //. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., 17. 
II, n. 1. A thing that is conjoined or con- 
current with another ; an accompaniment ; an 
accessory ; an associated thing, quality, or cir- 
cumstance. 
The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardhearted- 
ness. South, Sermons. 
Gaiety may be a concomitant of all sorts of virtue. 
Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 7. 
Wealth with its usual concomitants, elegance and com- 
fort. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 1. 
2f. A person who accompanies another ; an at- 
tendant or a companion. 
He made him the chief concomitant of his heir-apparent 
and only son. Sir II. Walton, Reliquiee, p. 212. 
3. In math., a form invariantively connected 
with a given form or system of forms, it is a 
quantic derived from a given system of quantics (of which 
it is said to be a concomitant) in such a way that, the 
variables of the given system of quantics being linearly 
transformed, and another quantic being similarly derived 
from the transformed system of quantics, the first derived 
quantic is transformed into the second (to a constant 
factor pr'es) either by a similar or by a reciprocal trans- 
formation of the variables to that which gave the second 
system of quantics from the first. Mixed concomitant, 
in math., a concomitant of two systems of quantics such 
that, when these two systems are severally linearly trans- 
formed, the concomitant is to be transformed similarly 
as to one set and reciprocally as to the other. 
COncomitantly (kon-kom'i-tant-li), adv. So as 
to be concomitant ; in company or combination ; 
accessorily. 
A few curious particulars . . . which concomitantly il- 
lustrate the history of the arts. Walpole, Life of Vertue. 
concomitatet (kon-kom'i-tat), v. t. [< LL. con- 
comitatus, pp. of concomitari, accompany: see 
concomitant.'] To accompany or attend ; be as- 
sociated or connected with. 
This simple bloody spectation of the lungs is differenced 
from that which concomitates a pleurisy. 
Harvey, Consumptions. 
COncomitationt (kon-kom-i-ta'shon), n. [< con- 
comitate : see -attorn.] Same as concomitance, 2. 
My second cause why I was condemned an heretike is 
that I denied transubstantiation and concomitation, two 
iugling words of the papists, by the which they doe be- 
leeue . . . that Christ's naturall bodie is made of bread, 
and the Godhead by and by to bee ioyned thereunto. 
Taylor, in Foxe's Martyrs, p. 1383. 
concord (kong'kdrd), n. [< F. concorde = Pr. 
Sp. Pg. It. concordia, (. L. concordia, agree- 
ment, union, harmony, < concor(d-)s, earlier 
concordis, of the same mind, agreeing, < com-, 
together, + cor(d-) = E. heart: see cordial, 
core 1 , and heart, and cf. accord, discord.'] 1. 
Agreement between persons ; union in opinions, 
sentiments, views, or interests; unanimity; 
harmony; accord; peace. 
What concord hath Christ with Belial? 2 Cor. vi. 15. 
Had I power, I should 
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 
Love-quairels oft in pleasing concord end. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 1008. 
2. Agreement between things ; mutual fitness ; 
harmony. 
If, nature's concord broke, 
Among the constellations war were sprung. 
Milton, P. L., vi. 311. 
Far-reaching concords of astronomy 
Felt in the plants, and in the punctual birds. 
Emerson, Musketaquid. 
