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the vent- 1757, the king was pleafed to ennoble him and 
ifil 'his defeendants. At that time lie was 78, and it is 
confidently laid that he died in 1761 aged 8z, which is 
very probable, though hot pofitively certain. His ftyle of 
ccmpofition is grand and elegant; his defign very cor¬ 
rect ; his dilpofition ingenious ; his attitudes and expref- 
iion full of truth, nature, and variety ; and his colouring 
is excellent. The hiftory of Diana and Adtseon, by 
Conca, i 11 the pofTelfion of the earl of Pembroke at Wil¬ 
ton, is highly valued. 
CON'CA, a town of the ifland of Corfica: twelve miles 
Berth of Porto Vecchio. 
CON'CALE. See Cancale. 
To CONCA'MERATE, v. a. \_concamero , Lat.] To 
arch over; to vault; to lay concave over.—Of the upper 
beak, an inch and a half confilleth pf one cancameratcd 
bone, bended downwards, and toothed as the other. Grew. 
CONCAMERA / TION, f. Arch; vault.—What a ro¬ 
mance is the llory of thole impoffible concamerations, and 
feigned rotations of folid orbs ! G/anville. 
CON'CAN, a country of Afia, lituated on the weftern 
coaft of the peninfula of India, between Bombay and Goa, 
feparated from the reft of the continent by a ridge of 
mountains called the Gauts. When the Moguls feized on 
Hindooftan, they found, this coaft infefted with pirates, 
and fitted out a fleet to protect their veflels. The Mah- 
•cattas, irritated at feeing their piracies interrupted, armed 
againll the Moguls, ravaged their pofleffions, and fitted 
out a fleet to proved! their pirates. Conagy Angria, who 
by his courage had arrived to the fupreme command, was 
named governor of Severndroog, one of the beft fortrefles 
on the coaft, where he formed an independent ftate, and 
m a little time extended his dominions for the fpace of 
forty leagues along the coaft, and fix leagues wide towards 
the mountains. His fucceflors took the name of Angria, 
and made peace with the Mahrattas on paying an annual 
tribute. They continued to make depredations on the 
coaft, and feize all veflels that piaffed that way till the 
year 1756, when their fleet was deftroyed, and the ftmng 
fort of Gheria, where the chief re tided, was taken by ad¬ 
miral Watfon and colonel Clive. The principal towns 
.are Choul, Fort Vidloria, Dabul, Severndroog, Gheria, 
Taranna, and Sunderdoo. 
CONCA'NEN (Matthew), born in Ireland* and bred 
to the law', came to London, in company with a Mr. 
Stirling; where, finding nothing fo likely to recommend 
him to public notice as writing politics, he foon com¬ 
menced an advocate for the government. There goes a 
ftory, but we hope not true, that he and his fellow-tra¬ 
veller, who was embarked in the fame adventure, refoived 
to divide their interefts; the one to oppole, the other to 
defend, the miniftry. Upon which they determined the 
fide each was to efpoufe by lots, when it fell to Conca- 
nen’s part to defend the miniftry. Stirlihg afterwards 
went into orders, and became a clergyman in Maryland. 
Concanen was for fome time concerned ill the Britifh and 
London Journals, and a paper called the Speculatift. His 
wit and literary abilities foon recommended him to the fa¬ 
vour of the duke of Newcaltle, through wliofe intereft he 
obtained the poft of attorney-general of the ifland of Ja¬ 
maica, which office he filled with the utmoft integrity and 
■ honour, and to the perfedl fatisfadlion of the inhabitants, 
for near feventeen years ; when, having acquired an ample 
fortune, he was defirous of palling the dole of his life in 
his native country; with which intention he came back 
to London, propofing to pals fome time there before he 
went to Ireland. But the difference of climate between 
that metropolis and the place he had fo long been accuf- 
tomed to, had fuch an eftedt on his ccnftitution, that he 
fell into a confumption, and died January 22, 1749, a few 
weeks after his arrival- The world is obliged to him for 
ieveral original poems, which, though fmall, have con¬ 
siderable merit; and for one play intitled Wexford Wells, 
He was alio concerned in altering Broome’s Jovial Crew 
into a ballad opera, in which fhape it is now frequently 
it. 
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performed. Concanen has feveral fongs in the Muftcal 
Mifcellany, 1729, 6 vols. But a memorable letter ad- 
drcfled to.him by Dr. Warburton, will, perhaps, be re¬ 
membered longer than any writing of his own. 
CONCARNEAU', a feaport town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of Finifterre, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of Quimper: three leagues and a half fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Qujmper. 
To CONCA'TENATE. v. a. [from catena, Lat-a chain.] 
To link together; to unite in a fucceffive order. 
CONCATENA'TION,/. A feries of links; an unin¬ 
terrupted unvariable fucceilion.—The ftoics affirmed a fa¬ 
tal, unchangeable concatenation of caufes, reaching tc the 
elicit adts of man’s wiil. South. , 
CONCAVA'TION,y; The adl of making concave. 
CONCA'VE, adj. [ concavus , Lat.] Hollow without an¬ 
gles ; as, the inner fervice of an eggfhell, the inner curve 
of an arch : oppofed to convex. —Thefe great fragments 
falling hollow, inclofed under their concave furface a great 
deal of air. Burnet. —Hollow.—For his verity in love, E 
do think him as concave as a covered goblet, or a wonu- 
-eaten nut. Shakefpeare. 
Have you not made an univerfal fliout. 
That Tyber trembled underneath his banks. 
To hear the replication of your founds 
Made in his concave fhores ? Shakefpeare. 
Concave glafles, lenfes, and mirrors, have either one fide 
or both Tides concave. The property of all concave lenfes 
is, that the rays of light, in palling through them, are de- 
fledled, or made to recede from one another; as in con¬ 
vex lenfes they are infledled towards each other; and 
that the more as the concavity or convexity has a fmaller 
radius. Hence parallel rays, as tliofe of the fun, by pa fi¬ 
fing through a concave lens, become diverging; diverg¬ 
ing rays are made to diverge more; and converging 
rays are made either to converge lefs, or to become paral¬ 
lel, or go out diverging. And hence it is, that objedfs 
viewed through concave lenfes, appear diminiflied ; and 
the more fo, as they are. portions of lefs fplieres. Con¬ 
cave mirrors have the contrary eftedt to lenfes ; they re¬ 
flect the rays which fall on them, fo as to make them ap¬ 
proach more to, or recede from, each other, than before, 
according to the fituation of the objedl; and that the 
more as the concavity is greater, or as the radius of con¬ 
cavity is lefs. Hence it is that concave mirrors magni¬ 
fying objedls that are prefented to them; and that in a 
greater proportion, as they are portions of greater fpheres. 
And hence alfo concave mirrors have the tlfedl of burn- 
ing-glafles, by fetting combuftible bodies on fire. 
Burning-Glass, vol. iii. p. 533. 
CON'CAVENESS,/. Hollownefs. 
CONCA'VITY,/ Internal furface of a hollow fpheri- 
cal or fpheroidical body.—Niches that contain figures of 
w hite marble fhould not be coloured in their concavity too 
black. Wotton. 
CONCA'VO-CON'CAVE, adj. Concave or hollow 0*. 
both fides. 
CONCA / VO-CON'VEX, adj. Concave one w'ay, and 
convex the other.—I procured another concavo-convex 
plate of glafs, ground on both fides to the fame fphere 
with the former plat e.^Newton. 
CONCA'VOUS, adj. \_concavus, Lat.] Concave; hol¬ 
low without angles. 
CONCA'VOLJSLY, adv. With hollownefs; in fuch a 
mariner as difcovers the internal furface of a hollow fphere. 
— 1 The dolphin that carrieth Arion is concavoufly inverted, 
and hath its (pine deprefled. Brown. 
To CONCE'AL, v.a. [conce/o,Lac.] To hide; to keep 
fecret; not to divulge; to cover; not to deteft.—-There 
is but one way of converfing fafely with all men, that is, 
not by concealing what we fay or do, but by faying or do¬ 
ing nothing that deferves to be concealed. Pope. 
He oft finds med’eine, who his grief imparts; 
But double griefs afflict concealing hearts. S pen fey. 
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