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when they begin to condenfe and coalefce into fmall par¬ 
cels, become firft of that bignefs whereby azure mult be 
refit (Sled, before they can conftitute other colours. Newton. 
CONDEN'SE, adj. Thick ; denfe; condenfated ; clofe; 
mafly; weighty: 
They colour, fhape, and fize 
AfTume, as likes them belt, condenfe or rare. Milton. 
CONDEN'SER, f. A pneumatic engine, or fyringe, 
whereby an uncommon quantity of air may be forced in¬ 
to a given fpace; fo that ten times as much air as there 
is at the fame time in the fame fpace, without the engine, 
may be thrown in by means of it, and its egrefs prevent¬ 
ed by valves properly difpofed. It confifts of a brafs cy¬ 
linder, wherein is a moveable pifton ; which being drawn 
out, the air ruflies into the cylinder through a hole pro¬ 
vided on purpole; and when the pifton is again forced in¬ 
to the cylinder, the air is driven into the receiver through 
an orifice, furnifhed with a valve to hinder its getting 
out. The receiver or veftel containing the condenled air, 
fhould be made very ftrong, to bear the force of the air’s 
ftpring thus increafed, for which reafon they are generally 
made of brafs. 
CONDEN'SITY, f. The ftate of being condenfed ; 
condenfation ; denfenefs ; denfity. 
CONDEON', a town of France, in the department of 
the Charente ; twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Saintes. 
CON'DER, a river of England, in the county of Lan- 
cafter, which runs into the Irifh fea: three miles fo.uth of 
Lancafter. 
CON'DERS,/ [ conduire , Fr.] Such as ftand upon high 
places near the fea coaft, at the time of herring fifhing, to 
make figns to the fifhers which way the (hole pafleth, 
which may better appear to fuel) as ftand upon fome high 
cliff, by a kind of blue colour that the firlt caufeth in 
the water, than to thofe in the (hips. Thefe he likewife 
called htiers, by likelihood of the French buyer, exclatnare, 
and balkers. Cowell. 
To CONDESCE'ND, <v. n. ■[condefcendre , Fr. from con- 
defc.cndo, Lat.] To depart from the privileges of fuperio- 
rity by a voluntary fubmiflion ; to fink willingly to equal 
terms with inferiors ; to tooth by familiarity.—This me¬ 
thod carries a very humble and condefcending air, when 
lie that inftrnfts teems to be the enquirer. Watts. —To 
copfent to do more than mere juftice can require.—He 
did not primarily intend to appoint this way; but conde- 
feended to it, as accommodate to their prefent ftate. Tillotf. 
Spain’s mighty monarch. 
In gracious clemency does condefccnd, 
On thefe conditions, to become your friend. Dryden. 
To ftoop; to bend; to yield; to fubmit; to become 
tubjeft : 
Can they think me fo broken, fo debas’d, 
With corporal fervitude, that my mind ever 
Will condefcend to fuch abfurd commands ? Milton. 
CONDESCEND'ENCE, f. \^condefcendaitce,Yx.~\ Volun¬ 
tary lubmiflion to a ftate of equality with inferiors. 
CONDESCENDINGLY, ad<v. By way of voluntary 
humiliation ; by way of kind conceflion_We condefcend- 
ingly made Luther’s works umpires in the controverfy. 
Atterbury. 
CONDESCENSION, f Voluntary humiliation ; de- 
feent from fuperiority; voluntary fubmiffion to equality 
with inferiors.—Courtefy and ccndefcenjion is an happy 
quality, which never fails to make its way into the good 
opinion, and into the very heart; and allays the envy 
which always attends a high ftation. Atterbury. 
CONDESCEN'SIVE, adj. Courteous; willing to treat 
with inferiors on equal terms: not haughty; not arrogant. 
CONDESCE'NT,/. [from the fecond fenfe of to. conde- 
feend.] Confent: 
And, by appointment and our condefcent, 
To-morrow are they to be married. Spanijb Tragedy. 
CON 
CONDET'TA, a town of France, in the department 
of the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrift of Boulogne: one league and a half fouth of 
Boulogne.. 
CONDI'GN, adj. [ condignus , Lat.] Worthy of a per- 
fon ; fuitable; deferved ; merited: 
Unlefs it were a bloody murtherer, 
I never gave them condign punifhment. Shakefpeare. 
Sometimes ufed in a good fenfe.—Herfelf, of all that rule, 
fhe deemed moft condign. Spenfer.—lxi thy condign 'praife. 
Shakefpeare. 
CONDIGN'NESS, f. Suitablenefs; agreeablenefs to 
deferts. 
CONDIGN'LY, adv. Defervedly; according to merit. 
CONDILLAC' (Stephen Bonnet de), of the French 
academy, and that of Berlin, abbe de Mureaux, preceptor 
of the infant don Ferdinand duke of Parma, was born at 
Grenoble, and died of a putrid fever at his eftate of Flux, 
near Baugency, the id of Auguft, 1780. Strong fenfe, 
found judgment, a dear and profound knowledge of me- 
taphyfics, a well-chofen and extenfive reading, a fedate 
charafter, manners grave without aulterify, a ftile rather 
fententious, a greater facility in writing than in fpeaking, 
more philofophy than fenfibility and imagination, form 
the principal features in the portrait of the abbe de Con¬ 
dillac. A collection in 3 vols. 1 :mo. under the title of his 
works, contains his Effay on the Origin of Human Sci¬ 
ences, his Treatife of Senfations, hisTreatife of Syftems; 
all excellent performances, replete with juft, luminous, 
and novel, ideas, written with precifion, deeply confider- 
ed, and in which the philofophic ftile leems perfectly na¬ 
tural to the author. His Courfe of Study, 16 vols. nmo. 
1776, compofed for the inftruftion of his illuftrious pupil, 
is equally deferving of praife. Whenever he either rea- 
fons, or difeuffes, or purfues morality and politics amid 
the revolutions of empires, it is highly to the fatisfaftion 
of the reader; but, in the hiftorical part, otherwife w-ell 
executed, and full of new views, there often feems a want 
of warmth and vivacity, and a ftile more pifturefque. 
This book, which breathes the fincereft philanthropy, 
and the moft ardent defire of rendering the fovereigns of 
the earth beneficent, and their fubjefts happy, is not 
compofed in that affefting and piercing ftile aftumed by 
Fenelon for reaching the fame end. 
CON'DIMENT, f. \_condimentum, Lat.] Seafoning; 
fauce; that which excites the appetite by a pungent tafte. 
—•Many things are fwallowed by animals rather for con¬ 
diment, gull, or medicament, than any fubftantial nutri¬ 
ment. Brown. 
CONDISGI'PLEf, /. [ condifcipulus , Lat.] A fchoolfel- 
low. A fellow-difciple.—A difciple of noble birth and 
lofty genius, who afpired to poetry and rhetoric, took the 
fublime part, and fhone above his other condifciples. 
Shaftejbury. 
CONDITA'NEOUS, adj. [ conditaneus , Lat.] That may 
be feafoned, pickled, or preferved. 
To CON'DITE, <v.a. [ condio , Lat.] To pickle; to pre- 
ferve'by falts or aromatics.—Much after the fame manner 
as the fugar doth, in the conditing of pears, quinces, and 
the like. Grew. —The moft innocent of them are but like 
condited or pickled mufhrooms, which, carefully correfted, 
may be harmlefs, but can never do good. Taylor. 
CONDI'TED, part. adj. \conditus, Lat ] Seafoned, 
pickled. 
CON'DITEMENT, /. A compofition of conferves, 
pow'ders, and fpices, in the form of an eleftuary. 
CONDI'TION,/ [condition, Fr. conditio, Lat.] Quality; 
that by which any thing is denominated good or bad : 
A rage, whofe heat hath this condition, 
That nothing can allay, nothing but blood. Shakefpeare. 
* Attribute; accident; property.—The king is but a man ; 
the violet finells, the element fhews, to him as to me: all 
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