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dence.—Examine whether the opinion you meet with, 
repugnant to what you were formerly embued with, be 
concludingly demon ft rated or not. Digby. 
CONCLU'SIBLE, adj. Determinable; certain by regu¬ 
lar proof.—’Tis as certainly conclufible from God’s prelci- 
cnce, that they will voluntarily do this, as that they will 
do it at all. Hammond. 
CONCLU'SION, f. Determination; final decifion.— 
Ways cf peaceable conclufion there are but thefe two cer¬ 
tain ; the one a fentence of judicial decifion, given by 
authority thereto appointed within ourfelves ; the other, 
the like kind of fentence given.by a more univerfal au¬ 
thority. Hooker. —The colleClion from propofitions pre- 
mifed; the confequence.—The conclufion of experience, 
from the time paft to the time prefent, will not be found 
and perfect. War with Spain. 
Then doth the wit 
Build fond conclujions on thofe idle grounds; 
Then doth it fly the good, and ill purfue. Davies. 
Tire clofe; the laft refult of argumentative dedu&ion.— 
Let us hear the conclufion of the wdiole matter : Fear God, 
and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty 
of man. Ecclef. xii. 13.—The event of experiments; ex¬ 
periment.—We praCtife likewife all conclufions of graft¬ 
ing and inoculating, as well of wild trees as fruit trees. 
Bacon. —The end ; the laft part.—I can fpeak no longer ; 
yet I will drain rnyfelf to breathe out this one invocation, 
which fhall be my conclufion. Howel. —In Shakefpeare it 
feems to fignify filence; confinement of the thoughts: 
Your wife OClavia, wutli her modefl eyes 
And ftill conclufion , (hall acquire no honour, 
Demurring upon me. Shakefpeare. 
CONCLU'SIVE, adj. Decifive ; giving the laft deter¬ 
mination to the opinion.—The agreeing votes of both 
lioufes were not by any law or reafon conclufive to my 
judgment. K. Charles. —Regularly confequential.—Thofe 
that are not men of art, not knowing the true forms of 
fyllogifm, cannot know whether they are made in right 
and conclufive modes and figures. Locke. 
CONCLUSIVELY, adv. Decifively ; with final deter¬ 
mination.—This I fpeak only to defire Eupolis not to 
fpeak peremptorily, or conclufvely, touching the point of 
pofiibility, till they have heard me deduce the means of 
the execution. Bacon. 
CONCLU'SIVENESS, f. Power of determining the 
opinion; regular confequence.— Confideration of things 
to be known, of their feveral weights, conclufvenefs , or 
evidence. Hale. 
To CONCOA'GULATE, v. a. To curdle or congeal 
one thing with another.—The faline parts of thofe, upon 
their folution by the rain, may work upon thofe other 
fubftances, formerly concoagulated with them. Boyle. 
CONCOAGULA'TION,/. A coagulation by which 
different bodies are joined in one mafs. 
To CONCO'CT, -v. a. [concoquo, Lat.] To digeft by the 
ftomach, fo as to turn food to nutriment.—The vita] func¬ 
tions are performed by general and conftant laws; the 
food is concoBed, the heart beats, the blood circulates, the 
lungs play. Cheyne. —To purify or fublime by heat; to 
heighten to perfection: 
The fmall clofe-lurking minifier of fate, 
Wh'ofe high concoBed venom through the veins 
A rapid lightning darts. Thomfon. 
To ripen.—The root which continueth ever in the earth, 
is ftill concoBed by the earth; and fruits and grains are 
half a year in concocting , whereas leaves are out and per¬ 
fect in a month. Bacon. 
CONCOC'TION, f. Digeftion in the Itomach ; matu¬ 
ration by heat; the acceleration of any thing towards 
purity and perfection.—The conftanteft notion of concoc¬ 
tion is, that it fhould fignify the degrees of alteration of 
one body into another, from crudity to perfeCt concodion , 
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which is the ultimity of that aCtion or procefs. Bacon. — 
Thus concoction is ufed for the fame as digeftion, though 
digeftion is more generally confined to what paffes in the 
Itomach; whereas concoCtion is applied to what altera¬ 
tions are made in the blood vefiels, which may be called 
the fecond concoCtion ; and that in the nerves, fibres, and 
minuted: veffels, the third and laft concoCtion. 
CON'COLIN, a town of France, in the department cf 
the Here : four leagues and a half north-eafi of Grenoble. 
CONCO'LOUR, adj. \concolor, Lat.] Of one colour; 
without, variety.—In concolour animals, and fuel) as are 
confined unto the fame colour, we meafure not their beauty 
thereby; for if a crow or blackbird grow white, we ac¬ 
count it more pretty. Bronson. 
CONCO'MITANCE, or Coxcomitancy,/. [from 
concomitor, Lat.] Subfiftence together with another thing. 
—The fecondary action fuhfifteth not alone', but in cen- 
comitancy with the other ; fo the noftrils are ufeful for re- 
fpiration and finelling, but the principal ufe is fmelling. 
Brovin. 
CONCO'MITANT, adj. \_covcomitans , Lat.] Con’oined 
with ; concurrent with; coming and going with, as col¬ 
lateral, not caufative or confequential.—The fpirit that 
furthereth the extenfion or dilatation of bodies, and is 
ever concomitant with porofity and drynefs. Bacon ■—It has 
pleafed our wife Creator to annex to feveral objeCls, as 
alfo to feveral of our thoughts, a concomitant pleafure ; and 
that in feveral objeCls, to feveral degrees. Locke: 
CONCO'MITANT, f. Companion; perfon or thing 
collaterally connected.—In confumptions, the preterna¬ 
tural concomitants, an univerfal heat of the body, a tormi- 
nous diarrhoea, and hot diftillations, have all a corrofive 
quality. Harvey. —The other concomitant of ingratitude is 
liard-heartednels, or want of compaffion. South. 
Horror (talks around, 
Wild flaring, and his fad concomitant 
Defpair, of abjeft look. Philips. 
And for tobacco, who could bear it ? 
Filthy concomitant of claret! Prior. 
CONCO'MITANTLY, adv. In company with others. 
To CONCO'MITATE, v. a. [ concomitatus , Lat.] To 
be collaterally connected with any thing; to come and 
go with another.—This fimple bloody fpeCtation of the 
lungs, is differenced from that which concomitates a pleu- 
rify. Harvey. 
CON'CORD, f. [concordia, Lat.] Agreement between 
perfons or things; iuitablenefs of one to another; peace; 
union ; mutual kindnefs : 
Kind concord, heavenly born ! whofe blifsful reign 
Holds this vafl globe in one furfounding chain ; 
Soul of the W'orld ! Tickle. 
A compaCt.—It appeareth by the concord made between 
Henry and Roderick the Ii ifh king. Davies. —Harmony ; 
confent of founds: 
The man who hath not mufic in himfelf, 
Nor is not mov’d with concord of fweet founds, 
Is fit for treafons, llratagems, and fpoils ! Shakefpeare. 
Principal grammatical relation of one word to another., 
diftinCt from regimen.—Have thofe who have writ about 
declenfions, concords , and fyntaxes, loft their labour ? 
Locke. 
CON'CORD, in law, an agreement made between two 
or more, upon a trefpafs committed; and is divided into 
concord executory, and concord executed. Plovsd. 5, 6. 
Thefe concords and agreements are by way of fatisfaCtion 
for trefpafs, See. Concord is alfo an agreement between 
parties, who intend the levying of a fine of lands one to 
the other, how and in what manner the lands fhal! pafs : 
it is the foundation and fubftance of the fine, taken and 
acknowledged by the party before one of the judges of 
the court of common pleas, or by commiflioners in the 
country, 
CON'CORD, 
