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CONJUGATION, in grammar, a regu- 
lar distribution of the several inflexions of 
verbs in their different voices, moods, tenses, 
numbers and persons, so as to distinguish 
them from one another. 
CONJUNCT, or Conjoint. See the 
article Conjoint. 
CONJUNCTION, in astronomy, the 
meeting of two stars or planets, in the s?ime 
degree of the zodiac. This conjunction is 
either tnie or apparent. The true con- 
junction is when a right line, drawn from 
the eye through tlie centre of one of the 
bodies, would pass through that of the 
other : in this case the bodies are in the 
same degree of longitude and latitude : and 
here the conjunction is also said to be cen- 
tral, if the same line, continued from the 
two centres through the eye, do also pass 
through the centre of tlie earth. 
Apparent conjunction, is when the two 
bodies do not meet precisely in the same 
point, but are joined with some latitude. 
In this case a right line, drawn through the 
centre of the two bodies, would not pass 
through the centre of the earth, but through 
the eye of the spectator. 
The moon is in conjunction with the sun, 
when they meet in the same point of the 
ecliptic, which happens every month ; and 
eclipses of the sun are always occasioned 
by the conjunction of the sun and moon in 
or near the nodes of the ecliptic. 
Conjunction, in grammar, an undecli- 
nable word or particle, which serves to 
join words and sentences together, and 
thereby shews their relation or dependence 
one upon another. 
CONJURATION, strictly means com- 
bining together by oath, especially with 
evil spirits to do a public harm. The using 
of witchcraft, conjuration, &c. was felony 
by 1. Jac. c. 12. but that w^as repealed by 
the 9, Geo. II. c. 5. and the offences and 
all prosecutions for them abolished, but if 
any pretend to witchcraft, or conjuration, 
or to tell fortunes, or from skill in occult 
or crafty science, to discover goods or chat- 
tels supposed, they shall be imprisoned a 
year, and stand hi the pillory once a quar- 
ter, and may be ordered to give security 
for good behaviour. 
CONNARUS, in botany, a genus of the 
Monadelphia Decandria class and order. 
Natural order of Dumosae. Terebinface® 
Jussieu. Essential character : style one, 
stigma simple; capsules two-valved, one- 
celled, one-seeded. There are four spe- 
cies, natives of warm climates. 
CONOCARPUS, in botany, Jamaica 
button tree, a genus of the Peutandria Mo- 
nogynia class and order. Natural order 
of Aggregat®. Elmagni Jussieu. Essen- 
tial character : petals five, or none; calyx,, 
bell form ; seeds naked, solitary, inferior ; 
flowers aggregate. There are three spe- 
cies found in the West Indies, where the 
natives use the bark for tanning leather. 
CONOID, in geometry, a solid body, ge- 
nerated by the revolution of a conic section 
about its axis. 
CONOPEA, in botany, a genus of the 
Didynamia Angiospermia class and order, 
Natural order of Lysimachi®. Jussieu. Es- 
sential 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 native of Guiana, flower- 
ing in June. 
CON OPS, in natural history, a genus of 
insects of the order Diptera. Generic cha- 
racter : mouth with a projecting geniculate 
proboscis ; antenn® clavate and pointed at 
the end. There are 22 species in two sec- 
tions. A. sucker, geniculate near the base, 
with a single-valved, abbreviated sheath, in- 
closing a single bristle. B. sucker, genicu- 
late at the base and middle, the sheath with 
two equal valves. The insects of this ge- 
nus are reraaikably active, and are foupd 
in gardens, where they subsist on the nec- 
tarious juices of flowers : , their larv® are 
not known. In the true conops the head is 
large and nearly hemispherical; the eyes 
large and almost oval ; and the antenn®. 
formed of three articulations, the middle 
one of which is long and cylindrical, 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 tlie suc- 
cession of the crown, in which case it is, 
continued to infinity. 
Marriage is prohibited by the church fO; 
the fourth degree of consanguinity inclu- 
sive ; but by the law of nature, consan- 
guinity is no obstacle to marriage, except 
it be in the direct line. 
CONSCIENCE, ill ethics, a secret testi- 
mony of the soul, whereby it gives its ap- 
probation to things that are naturally good, 
and condemns those that are evil. 
CONSCRIPTS, men raised to recruit 
the French armies. All men capable of 
bearing arras in France and its dependencies 
