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cubine, is excommunicated; but that if the concubine 
ferved him as a wife, fo that he had only one woman, 
under the title of concubine, he fliould not be rejefted 
from communion. The Roman laws did not allow a man 
to efpoufe whom he pleafed ; there was required a kind 
of parity, or proportion, between the conditions of the 
contracting parties? but a woman of inferior condition, 
who could not be efpoufed as a wife, might be kept as a 
concubine ; and the laws allowed of it, provided the man 
had no other wife. By the laws of Numa, no concubine 
was fuffered to approach the altar of Juno. It is certain 
the patriarchs of old had a great number of wives, and 
that thefe did not all hold the fame rank; fome being 
lubaltern to the principal wife; which were what we call 
concubines. Solomon had leven hundred wives and three 
hundred concubines : the emperors of China have fome- 
times had two or three thouland concubines at one time 
in their palace. Q^Curtius obferves, that Darius was 
followed in his army by three hundred and fixty-five con¬ 
cubines, all in the equipage of queens. 
To CONCUL'CATE, ns. a. [ conciilco , Lat.] To tread, or 
trample, under foot. 
CONCULCA'TION, /. [conculcatio, Lat.] Trampling 
with the feet. 
CONCU'PISCENCE, / [ concupifcentia , Lat.] Irregular 
defire; libidinous vvifli; lull; lechery.—We know even, 
feoret concupifcence to be fin; and are made fearful to of¬ 
fend, though it be but in a wandering cogitation. Hooker. 
In our faces the evident figns 
Of foul concupifcence ; whence evil (lore, 
Ev’n lhame, the lad of evils. Milton. 
CONCU'PISCENT, adj. [concupifcens, Lat.] Libidi¬ 
nous ; lecherous : 
He would not, but by gift of my chafte body 
To his concupifcent intemperate lull, 
Releafe my brother! Shakefpeare. 
CONCUPISCEN'TIAL, adj. Relating to concupif¬ 
cence. 
CONCUPIS'CIBLE, adj. [ coneupifcibilis , Lat.] Impref- 
fing defire; eager; defirous; inclining to the purfuit or 
attainment of any thing.—The fchools reduce all the paf- 
fions to thefe two heads, the concupifcible and irafcible 
appetite. South. 
To CONCUR, <v. n. [concurro, Lat.] To meet in one 
point.—Though reafon favour them, yet fenfe can hardly 
allow them; and, to fatisfy, both thefe mull concur. 
Temple.— To agree; to join in one aftion, or opinion.— 
Adis which lhall be done by the greater part of my exe¬ 
cutors, (hall be as valid and effeftual as if all my execu¬ 
tors had concurred in the fame. Swift.— It has with before 
•the perfon with whom one agrees.—It is not evil fimply 
to concur with the heathens, either in opinion or aftion; 
and that conformity with them is only then a difgrace, 
when we follow them in that they do amifs, or gene¬ 
rally in that they do without reafon. Hooker. —It has to 
before the effedl to which one contributes.—Their affec¬ 
tions were known to concur to the molt defperate coun- 
fels. Clarendon. 
Extremes in nature equal good produce* 
Extremes in man concur to general ufe. Pope. 
To be united with ; to be conjoined.—To have an ortho¬ 
dox belief, and a true profeffion, concurring, with a bad 
life, is only to deny Chrill with a greater folemnity. South. 
—To contribute to one common event with joint power. 
-—When outward caules concur, the idle are foonell feized 
by this infeftion. Collier. 
CONCURRENCE, or Concurrency ,/. Union; af¬ 
fectation; conjunftion.—We have no other meal'ure but 
our own ideas, with the concurrence of other probable 
reafons, to perfuade us. Locke. —Agreement; adl of join¬ 
ing in any defign, or meafure.—Tarquin the Proud was 
expelled by an univerfal concurrence of nobles and people. 
Swift.— Combination of many agents or circumltances.«**» 
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Struck with thefe great concurrences of things. Crdjhaw.— 
He views our behaviour in every concurrence of affairs, 
and fees us engage in all the poffibilities of aftion. Addi- 
fon. —AfHHance ; help.—From thefe fublime images we 
colleft the greatnefs of the work, and the necellity of the 
divine concurrence to it. Rogers. —Joint right; equal claim. 
— A bilhop might have officers if there was a concurrency 
of jurifdidlion between him and the archdeacon. Ayliffe. 
CONCURRENT, adj. Afting in conjunftion; agree¬ 
ing in the fame aft ; contributing to the lame event; con¬ 
comitant in agency.—This foie vital faculty is not fuffi- 
cient to exterminate noxious humours, unlels the animal 
faculty be. concurrent with it, to luppiy the fibres with 
animal lpirits. Harnsey. 
All combin'd 
Your beauty, and my impotence of mind ; 
And his concurrent flame, that blew my fire ; 
For Hill our kindred fouls had one defire. Dryden. 
Conjoined ; affociate ; concomitant.—There is no diffe¬ 
rence between the concurrent echo and the iterant, but the 
quicknefs or flownefs of the return. Bacon. 
CONCURRENT,/. That which concurs; a contribu¬ 
tory caufe.—To all affairs of importance there are three 
neceftary concurrents, without which they can never be 
difpatched ; time, induftry, and faculties. Decay of Piety. 
CONCESSION,/ \_concuJJio, Lat.] The aft of (baking; 
agitation; tremefaftion.—It is believed that great ringing 
of bells, in populous cities, hath diffipated peftilent air; 
which may be from the concujjion of the air. Bacon. 
The flrong concujjion on the heaving tide 
Roll’d back the veffel to the ifland’s fide. Pope. 
The Hate of being ffiaken.—There want not inftances of 
fuch an univerfal concujjion of the whole globe, as mult 
needs imply an agitation of the whole abyls. Woodward. 
CONCUS'SIVE, adj. \_concuJfus, Lat.] Having the power 
or quality of (baking. 
To COND, Con, or Conn, v. a. in fea language, to 
guide or conduft a (hip in her right courfe. 
CON'DAMINE (Charles Marie de la), chevalier de St. 
LaZare, member of many public academies well known 
by the reputation of his extenfive travels, was. born at 
Paris in 1701. He began his journey to the eall very 
young; and after having coaited the ffiores of Africa and. 
Alia in the Mediterranean, he was chofen, in 1736, to 
go with M. Godin to Peru, for the purpofe of determin¬ 
ing the figure of the earth at the equator. The difficul¬ 
ties and dangers he furmounted in this expedition are 
almolt incredible; and at one time lie had nearly perilhed 
by the imprudence of one of his companions, M. Senier- 
gues. The libertinifm and arrogance of this young man 
had fo much irritated the inhabitants of New Cuenca# 
that they rofe tumultuoufly againll the travellers ; but, 
fortunately for the reft,; the offender was the only viftim. 
On his return home, la Condamine made a vifit to Rome, 
where pope Benedift XIV. made him a prefent of his por¬ 
trait, and granted him a difpenfation to marry one of his 
nieces. By his great equanimity, his lively and amiable 
difpolition, he was the delight of all that knew him. Two 
days before his death, he made a witty couplet on the 
furgical operation that carried him to the grave; and, 
after Having recited this couplet to a friend that came to 
fee him, “ You mull now leave me,” added he; “I have 
two letters to write to Spain; probably by next poll, it 
will be too late.” La Condamine had the art of plealing 
'the learned, by the concern he (hewed in advancing their 
interefts; and the ignorant, by the talent of perfuading 
them that they underltood what he laid. Even the men 
of faffiion fought his company, as he was full of anecdote 
and repartee, adapted to amufe their frivolous curiofity. 
However, he was not without his defefts. His inquifri 
tivenels, as is often the cafe with travellers, rendered him 
indifereet; in him it was a real paffion, to which he fa- 
crificed the ordinary civilities of life. Eager after fame, 
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