conquer 
It was only after a strenuous opjMjsition from these 
bodies that ancient literature at last nmqueml its mv- 
nition as an element of academical instruction. 
Sir W. Hamilton. 
=Syn. 1 and 3. Overcome, Vanquish, Conquer, Subdue, 
Subjugate, to overpower, overthrow, defeat, beat, rout, 
and suiMtte aim xiwjti'/fire containing permanence as an 
essential idea. Overcome is not so strong as vanquish, 
the former expressing a real victory, hut the latter also a 
due and subjugate are like conquer. Subdue may express 
a slower, quieter process than conquer. Subjugate is the 
strongest ; it is to bring completely under the yoke. See 
defeat. 
Who overcomes 
By force, hath overcome but half his foe. 
Milton, P. L., i. 648. 
In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, 
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still. 
Goldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 212. 
No creed without pathos will ever justify the great hu- 
man hope, or eonqiter the great human heart. 
N. A. Rev., CXL. 327. 
Rome learning arts from Greece whom she subdued. 
Pope, Prol. to Addison's Cato. 
The style of Louis XIV. did what his armies failed to 
do. It overran and subjugated Europe. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 390. 
II. intrans. To make a conquest; gain the 
victory. 
He hath been us'd 
Ever to conquer, and to have his worth 
Of contradiction. Shak., Cor., iii. 3. 
Resolv'd to conquer or to die. 
Waller, Epitaph on Col. C. Cavendish. 
conquerable (kong'ker-a-bl), a. [< OF. con- 
querable ; as conquer -f -able.} Capable of 
being conquered; that may be vanquished or 
subdued. 
Revenge, . . . which yet we are sure is conquerable under 
all the strongest temptations to it. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, III. iv. 
conquerableness (kong'ker-a-bl-nes), . The 
state of being conquerable. 
COnqueress (kong'ker-es), n. [< conquer + -ess.'] 
A female who conquers ; a victorious female. 
O Truth ! thou art a mighty conqveress. 
Fletcher (and another), Queen of Corinth, iv. 3. 
COnqueringly (kong'ker-ing-li), adv. By con- 
quering. 
conquennentt (kong'ker-ment), n. [< OF. con- 
querement, conquerrement (cf. ML. conqueremen- 
tum) ; as conquer + -ment.] Conquest. [Rare.] 
The nuns of new-won Gales his bonnet lent 
In lieu of their so kind a conquerment. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, iii. 7. 
conqueror (kong'ker-or), . [< ME. conquerour, 
conquerur, < OF. conqueror, conquereor, conque- 
reur, cunquerur (= Sp. conqueridor, obs.), < con- 
querre, conquer : see conquer. Cf . L. conquisi- 
tor, conquistor, conqutestor, a recruiting officer, 
in ML. one who acquires or gains, a conquer- 
or, < conquirere, pp. conquisitus, seek, ML. con- 
quer.] One who conquers, or gains a victory 
over, any opposing force ; specifically, one who 
subdues or subjugates a nation or nations by 
military power. 
He may wel be called conquerour, and that is Cryst to 
mene. Fieri Plowman (B), xix. 58. 
This England never did, nor never shall, 
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, 
But when it first did help to wound itself. 
Shalt., K. John, v. 7. 
The mighty disturbers of mankind who have been called 
Conquerours shall not then be attended with their great 
armies, but must stand alone to receive their sentence. 
Stillinffjleet, Sermons, I. xi. 
The Conqueror, an epithet applied to William I., King 
of England and Duke of Normandy, on account of his 
conquest of England in 1066. As originally applied, how- 
ever (in Old French and Middle Latin), the name was not 
exactly synonymous with conqueror in the modern sense. 
See extract. 
William, we must always remember, did not give him- 
self out as a conqueror. The name conqueror, conquffistor, 
though applied with perfect tnith in the common sense, 
must strictly be taken in the legal meaning, of purchaser 
or acquirer. E. A. Freeman. 
Syn. See victor. 
conquest (kong'kwest), n. [< ME. conquest, < 
OF. conquest, m., conqueste, f., F. conque'te, f. 
(conque't, m., acquisition), = Pr. conquist, con- 
questa = Sp. Pg. conquista = It. conquisto, con- 
1202 
quista, < ML. conquisitus, conquistus, conquestus, 
m., conquistum, neut., conquista, f., conquest, 
acquisition/ L. conquisitus (ML. contr. conquis- 
tus), -a, -urn, pp. of conquirere, seek, procure, 
ML. conquer: see conquer, and cf. acquest, in- 
quest, request.] 1. The act of conquering; the 
act of overcoming or vanquishing opposition by 
force of any kind, but especially by force of 
arms; victory. 
Conquest and good husbandry both enlarge the king's 
dominions : the one by the sword, making the acres more 
in number ; the other by the plough, making the same 
acres more in value. Fuller. 
In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. 
Addison, The Campaign. 
2. The act of acquiring or gaining control of 
by force ; acquisition by military or other con- 
flict ; subjugation by any means : as, the con- 
quest of Persia by Alexander the Great; the 
conquest of a nation's liberties, or of one's pas- 
sions. 
Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. 
Prescott. 
Specifically 3. The act of gaining or capti- 
vating the affections or favor of another or 
others. 
Nature did her wrong, 
To print continual conquest on her cheeks, 
And make no man worthy for her to take. 
Beau, and Fl., King and No King, i. 1. 
I confess you have made a perfect conquest of me by 
your late Favours, and I yield myself your Captive. 
Howell, Letters, I. ii. 23. 
4. That which is conquered; a possession gain- 
ed by force, physical or moral. 
What conquest brings he home? 
What tributaries follow him to Rome? 
Shak., J. C., i. 1. 
For much more willingly I mention air, 
This our old conquest, than remember hell. 
Milton, P. R., 1. 46. 
To resign conquests is a task as difficult in a beauty as an 
hero. Steele, Spectator, No. 306. 
5. In feudal law, acquest; acquisition; the ac- 
quiring of property by other means than by in- 
heritance, or the acquisition of property by a 
number in community or by one for all the oth- 
ers. 6. In Scots law, heritable property ac- 
quired in any other way than by heritage, as by 
purchase, donation, etc. j or, with reference to 
a marriage contract, heritable property subse- 
quently acquired The Conquest, by preeminence, 
in Ena. hist., the conquest or acquisition of England by 
William, Duke of Normandy (afterward William I., or 
William the Conqueror), in 1066. 
conquestt, t. [Early mod. E. also conquess 
(= OF. conquester, conquister = Sp. Pg. conquis- 
tar); from the noun.] To conquer. 
The King was cuming to his cuntrie, 
To conquesg baith his landis and he. 
Sant/ of the Outlaw Murray (Child's Ballads, VI. 28). 
conquestiont, [< L. conquestio(n-), < C0- 
queri, pp. conquestus, complain, < com-, toge- 
ther, + queri, complain: see quarrel 1 , queru- 
lous.] Complaining together. Coles, 1717. 
COnquet (kong-kwef), n. [< F. conqutit : see con- 
quest.] In civil law, synonymous with acquest. 
[Both words are used of property acquired during a mar- 
riage under the rule of community of property, as distin- 
guished from bieng propres. Acquest was formerly often 
used of property coming to one spouse by some mode other 
than either succession or gift direct from an ancestor, and 
becoming community property by virtue of the marriage ; 
while conquet was, and perhaps by some writers still is, 
used to designate property that both husband and wife to- 
gether acquired as community property.] 
conquisitiont (kong-kwi-zish'on), n. [< L. con- 
quisitio(n-), a seeking for, < conquirere, pp. con- 
quisitus, seek for : see conquer.] A gathering 
together; a seeking for the purpose of collec- 
tion. 
The conquisition of some costly marbles and cedars. 
Bp. Hatt, Elisha Raising the Iron. 
conquistador (kong-kwis'ta-dor), n. [Sp. Pg., 
< conquistar, conquer, < conquista, conquest : see 
conquest and conquer.] A conqueror: applied 
to the conquerors of Spanish America. 
The violence and avarice of the conquistadon. 
Is. Taylor. 
consacret, v. t. [= F. consacrer = Pr. consecrar, 
consegrar = Sp. Pg. consagrar (Sp. obs. consa- 
crar) = It. consacrare, mnsagrare, < L. consa- 
crare, var. of consecrare, devote: see consecrate.] 
To devote ; consecrate. 
Lo heer these Champions that have (bravely bould) 
Withstood proud Tyrants, stoutly consacrinff 
Their lives and soules to God in suffering : 
Whose names are all in Life's fair Book inroul'il. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Triumph of Faith, iii. 5. 
consanguine (kon-saug'gwin), a. and n. [= F. 
consanguiii, < L. consanguineus, of the same 
conscience 
blood: see consanguineous.] I. n. Descended 
from a common ancestor ; consanguineous : as, 
"the Consanguine Family," Encyc. Brit., IX. 22. 
II. it. One of the same blood as, or related by 
birth to, another. 
The progress from promiscuity through the marriage of 
comanyuines, then upward to the various forms of polyan- 
dry and polygyny to monogamy. 
Smithsonian Report, 1880, p. 400. 
consanguineal (kon-sang-gwin'e-al), a. [As 
consanguine + -al.] Consanguineous. Sir T. 
Browne. 
consanguinean (kon-sang-gwin'e-an), a. [As 
consanguine + -an.] Same as consanguineous, 2. 
Half-blood is either consanguinean, as between children 
by the same father, or uterine, as between children having 
the same mother. Encyc. Brit., XIII. 78. 
consanguineous (kon-sang-gwin'e-us), a. [=F. 
consangiiin = Sp. consanguineo = Pg. It. consan- 
guineo, < L. consanguineus, related by blood, < 
com-, together, -t- sangui.i (sanguin-), blood : see 
sanguine.] 1. Of the same blood; related by 
birth; descended from the same parent or an- 
cestor. 
Am I not consanguineous I am I not of her blood? 
Shak., T. N., ii. s. 
More specifically 2. Of the same father by 
different wives ; characterized by this relation. 
Also consanguinean. Maine. 3. Pertaining to 
or affected by the relation of consanguinity. 
When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are 
better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of 
our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertain- 
ing by an easy method whether or not consanguineous mar- 
riages are injurious to man. 
Darwin, Descent of Man, II. 385. 
consanguinity (kon-sang-gwin'i-ti), n. [=F. 
consanguinite = Sp. consantfttinidad = Pg. con- 
sanguinidade = It. consangmnita, < L. consan- 
guinita(t-)s, < consanguineus, of the same blood : 
see consanguineous."] Relationship by blood; 
the relationship or connection of persons de- 
scended from the same stock or common an- 
cestor, in distinction from affinity, or relation- 
ship by marriage. 
Iknowno touchof 'consanguinity ; 
No kin, no love, no blood, no soul so near me, 
AB the sweet Troilus. Shak., T. and C., iv. 2. 
To the Court of Rome, to solicit a dispensation for their 
marriage, rendered necessary by the emsant/uinity of the 
parties. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 5. 
COnsarcinationt(kon-sar-si-na'shon), n. [< L. 
consarcinatus, pp. of consarcinare, sew or patch 
together, < com-, together, + *sarcinare, sarcire, 
patch.] The act of patching together. Bailey. 
conscience (kon'shens), . [< ME. conscience, 
concience, conciens,"<. OF. conscience, concience, 
F. conscience = Pr. conciencia, cossiencia = Sp. 
consciencia, now conciencia = Pg. conscieneia = 
It. conscienza, coscienza, < L. conscientia, a joint 
knowledge, cognizance, consciousness, know- 
ledge, conscience/ conscien(t-)s,~p'pT. of conscire 
(little used), be conscious (of wrong), LL. know 
well, < com-, together, + scire, know : see sci- 
ence.] 1. Consciousness; knowledge. [Obso- 
lete or rare.] 
Let . . . thy former facts 
Not fall in mention, but to urge new acts. 
Conscience of them provoke thee on to more. 
B. Jonson, Catiline, i. 1. 
The same passion [for glory] may proceed not from any 
conscience of our own actions, but from fame and trust of 
others, whereby one may think well of himself, and yet 
be deceived ; and this is false glory. 
Hobbes, Works, IV. ix. 
The characteristic of the long medieval centuries, the 
conscience that war is justifiable only by law. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 220. 
2f. Private or inward thoughts ; real senti- 
ments. 
By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king : I 
think he would not wish himself anywhere but where he 
is. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 1. 
3. The consciousness that the acts for which 
a person believes himself to be responsible do 
or do not conform to his ideal of right; the 
moral judgment of the individual applied to 
his own conduct, in distinction from his per- 
ception of right and wrong in the abstract, and 
in the conduct of others. It manifest* itself in the 
feeling of obligation or duty, the moral imperative "I 
ought " or " I ought not " : hence the phrases the voice of 
conscience, the dictates of conscience, etc. 
Conscience that es called ynwitt [inwit]. 
e, Prick of Conscience, 1. 5428. 
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, 
And every tongue brings in a several tale, 
And every tale condemns me for a villain. 
Shak., Rich. III., v. 3. 
No way whatsoever that I shall walk in against the dic- 
tates of my conscience will ever bring me to the mansions 
of the blessed. Locke, 1st Letter concerning Toleration. 
