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geometry of curves, which confiders the co-ne, and the 
ieveral curve lines arifirig from the fedtions of it. 
To CONJE'CT, v.n. [conjeSliun, Lat.] To guefs; to 
c o nj e 61 u re. Not in life. 
I intreat you then, 
From one that but imperfectly conjefts , 
Your wildom would not build yourl'elf a trouble. Shakef, 
CONJEC'TOR, f. A guelfer ; a conjeCturer: 
For fo conjcElors would obtrude, 
And from thy painted (kin conclude. Swift. 
CONJEC'TURABLE, adj. Being the objeCt of con- 
jeCture ; pollible to be gueffed. 
CONJECTURAL, adj. Depending on conjecture ; 
faid or done by guefs.—It were a matter of great profit, 
fave that I doubt it is too conjectural to venture upon, if 
one could difeern what corn, herbs,, or fruits, are likely 
to be in plenty or fcarcity. Bacon. 
CONJECTUR A'LITY,/ That which depends upon 
guefs.—i-They have not recurred unto chronology, or the 
records of time, but taken themfelves unto probabilities, 
and the conjc Elurality of philofophy. Brown. 
CONJECTURXLLY, adv. By guefs; by conjec¬ 
ture.—-Let it be probably, not conjeCturally proved. Maine. 
CONJECTURE, f. [conjeElura, Lat.] Guefs; im- 
perfedt knowledge ; preponderation of opinion without 
proof.—In the calling of lots, a man cannot, upon any 
ground of reafon, bring the event fo much as under con¬ 
jecture. Sotct/i. —Idea'; notion; conception. Not in life. 
Now entertain corjcChirc of a time, 
When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, 
Fills the wide veffel of the univerfe. Shakefpeare, 
To CONJEC'TURE, v. a. To guefs ; to judge by 
-guefs; to entertain an opini@n upon bare probability.—- 
When we look upon fuch things as equally ntay or may 
Hot be, human reafon can then, at the bed, but conjecture 
what will be. South. 
CONJEC'TURER,/ A guelfer; one who Forms opi¬ 
nion without proof.—I dial! leave conjeClurcrs to their 
.ow'd imaginations. Addifon. 
CONIFE'RyE, f. in botany, the fifteenth order in 
Linnaeus’s Fragments of a Natural Method ; and the fffty- 
firft of the natural orders ; containing the cone-bearing 
trees : as fir, pine, cyprefs, thuja, .See. 
CONI'FEROUS TREES,/ Such as bear feed-veffels 
of a conical figure. 
CO'NIL, a town of Spain, in the province of Anda- 
iufia, on the coaft of the Atlantic, in a bay to which it 
gives name. The inhabitants are much engaged in fifil¬ 
ing, efpecially for tunnies, which formerly brought in 
eighty thoufand ducats yearly, but has of late much 
fallen off. It is fix leagues fouth-fouth-eaft of Cadiz. 
Lat. 36.16. N. Ion. 10. 35. E. Peak of Teneriffe. 
CONIMBRI'CA, anciently a town of Lufitania, on 
the fouth fide of the river Monda; from the ruins of 
which arofe Coimbra, a city of Portugal. 
CO'NIN, orKoNiN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Kalifch: eighteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Gnefne. 
To CONJOB'BLE, v. a. [from con, together, and joh- 
bcrnol, the head.] To concert; fo fettle ; to difeufs. A 
low cant word. —What would a body think of a minifter 
that lhould conjobhle matters of ftate with tumblers, and 
confer politics with tinkers*? L'Eflrange 
To CONJO'IN, v. a. [ conjoindre , Fr. conjungo, Lat.] 
To unite ; to confolidate into one : 
Thou wrong’d Pirithous, and not him alone ; 
But, while I live, two friends conjoin'd in one. Dryden, 
To unite in .marriage : 
If either.of you know any inward impediment, 
Why you (hould not be conjoin'd, I charge 
You-on your fouls to utter it. Shakefpeare-. 
To alTociate; to connect.—-Men of differing interefts can 
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be reconciled in one communion; at lead, thedefigns 0! 
all can be conjoined in ligatures of the lame reverence, and 
piety, and devotion. Taylor. 
To CONJO'IN, v.n. To league ; to unite-. 
This part of his 
Conjoins with my dil’eafe, and helps to end me. Shahefp. 
CONJOI'NT, adj. [conjoint, Fr.] United; connected; 
affociate. 
CONJOI'NT DEGREES, in mufic, two notes which 
immediately follow each other in the order of the leale ; 
as ut and re. 
CONJOINT'LY, adv. In union; together; in affo- 
ciation ; jointly ; not apart.—The parts of the body, fe- 
parately, make known the padions of the foul, or elle 
conjointly one with the other. Dryden. 
CO'NISBERG, or Kongsberg, or Konsberg, a 
town of Norway, in the diocefe of A.ggerhuus, fituated 
in the midft of mountains, in which are fome mines of 
diver, difeovered in 1623 ; and in one a vein of gold was 
difeovered in 1697. Some of thefe mines are exceedingly 
profitable, and fome fcarcely pay the expences of work¬ 
ing. It is thirty-fix miles fouth-weft of Chridiana. Lat. 
39. 37. N. Ion. 9. 45. E. Greenwich. 
CO'NISOR. See Cognisor. 
CO'NISTON WATER, a lake of England, in the 
county of Lancafter, which empties itfelf into the river 
Leven, nine miles fouth of Hawklhead. 
CO'NITZ, or Choinitz, a town of Prufiia, in Pome- 
relia : forty miles fouth of Dantzic. 
CON'JUGAL, adj. [ conjugalis , Lat.] Matrimonial ; 
belonging to marriage ; connubial : 
He mark’d the conjugal difpute ; 
Nell roar’d incedant, Dick lat mute. Swift. 
Their conjugal affection dill is tied, 
And dill the mournful race is multiplied. Dryden. 
CON'JUGAL RIGHTS, or fuit for reftitution of 
conjugal rights, in law, is one of the fpecies of matri¬ 
monial caufes ; and is brought when either the hulband 
or wife is guilty of the injury of fubtradtion, or lives fe- 
parate from the other without any fufticient reafon ; in 
which cafe the eccledaftical jurifdidtion will compel them 
to come together again, if either party be weak enough to 
defire it, Contrary to the inclination of the other. 3 Comm. 
94. See the article Baron and Feme, vol. ii. p. 742, &c„ 
CON'JUGALLY, adv. Matrimonially; connubially. 
To CO'NJUGATE, v. a. [jeonjugo, Lat.] To join; to 
join in marriage ; to unite.-—Thofe drawing as well mar¬ 
riage as w-ardfliip, gave him both power and occafion to 
conjugate at plealure the Norman and the Saxon h@ufes. 
IVotton. —[In grammar.] To infledk verbs; to decline 
verbs through their various terminations. 
CON'JUGATE,/ [conjugates, Lat.] Agreeing in de¬ 
rivation with another word, and therefore generally re- 
lembling in fignffication.—His grammatical argument, 
grounded upon the derivation of fpontaneous from Jpont-, 
weighs nothing: we have learned in logic, that conjugates 
are fometimes in name only, and not in deed. Bramkall. 
CON'JUGATE AXIS, or Diameter, in the conic 
fedtions, is the axis, or a diameter parallel to a tano-ent 
to the curve at the vertex of anothef axis or diameter 
to which that is a conjugate. And the Conjugate 
Hyperbolas, alfo called adjacent hyperbolas, are fuch as 
have the fame axes, but in the contrary order, the fird 
or principal axis of the one being the feccmd axis o.f the 
other, and the fecond axis of the former the fird axis of 
the latter. See Conic Sections. 
CON'JUGATE LEAF, in botany, a pinnate leaf, 
which has only one pair of leaflets. 
CON'JUGATE RACEME, in botany, having two 
racemes only, united by .a common peduncle. 
CONJUGA'TION,/ [conjugatio, Lat.] A couple; a 
pair.—The heart is fo far from affording nerves unto 
other parts, that it recejveth very tew itleU from the 
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