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CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, / Exaftnefs of jnftice ; 
tendernefs of confcience.—It will be a wonder ful confckn - 
tiaufnefs in them, if they will content themfelvcs with.lei's 
profit than they can make. Locke. 
CON'SCIQNABLE, adj. Reafonable ; juft; accord¬ 
ing to confcience.—Let my debtors have confcionable 1 a- 
tisfadfion. Wotton, 
CON'SCION ABLE NESS,/ Equity; reafonablencfs. 
CON'SCION ABLY, adv. In a manner agreeable to 
confcience’; reafpnably ; juftly.—A prince mult be ufed 
eonfeionabiy us well as a common perfon. Taylor. 
CONSCIOUS,- adj. {cpnfcius, Lat.] Endowed with tire 
power of knowing one’s own thoughts and actions.—Mat¬ 
ter hath no life nor perception, and is not confcious of its 
own exigence. Bentley. —Knowing from memory; having 
the knowledge of any thing without any new information: 
The damfel then to Tancred fent, 
Who, confcious of th’ occafion, fear’d th’ event. Dry den. 
Admitted to the knowledge of any thing :■ with to .'— 
Rofes or honey cannot be thought to fmell or taite their 
own fweetnefs, or an organ be con/cious to its mtrfic, or 
gunpowder to its flailring or noife. Bentley .—Bearing wit- 
nefs by the dictate of confcience to any thing.—The 
queen had been folicitorrs with the king on his behalf, 
being confcious to herfelf that he had been encouraged 
by her. Clarendon. 
CON'SCIOUSLY, adv. With knowledge of one’s own 
aflions.—If thefe perceptions, with tlreir confcioufncfs, 
always remained in the mind, the fame thinking thing 
would be always confcioufy prelent. Locke. 
CONSCIOUSNESS,/ The perception of what paffes 
in a man’s ow n mind. Locke. —If fpirit be without think¬ 
ing, I have no idea of any tiling left; therefore confciouf¬ 
ncfs mu ft be its effential attribute. Watts. —Internal lenfe 
of guilt or innocence.—No man doubts of a Supreme Be¬ 
ing, until, from the confcioufncfs of his provocations, it 
become his interefl there fliouid be none. Government of 
the Tongue. 
CONSCRIPT, adj. [from cotfcribo, Lat.] A term 
ufed in fpeaking of the Roman fenators, who were called 
patres confcripti, from their names being written in the 
regifter of the fenate. 
CON SCRIP'! ION,/ Iconfcriptio, Lat.] An enrolling 
or regiftering. 
To CON'SECR ATE, v. a. [confecro, Lat.] To make 
facred ; to appropriate to facred ufes.—A bifhop ought 
not to confecrate a church which the patron has built for 
filthy gain,.and not for true devotion. Ayliffe. —To de¬ 
dicate inviolably to fome particular purpofe, or perfon : 
with to. —He (hall confecrate unto the Lord the days of his 
leparation, and (hall bring a lamb of the firlt year for a 
trefpafs offering. Numb. vi. 12.—To canonize. 
CON'SECRATE, adj. Confecrated; facred; devot¬ 
ed ; devote ; dedicated : 
Should!! thou but hear I were licentious ; 
And that this body, confecrate to thee, 
By ruffian lull Ihould be contaminate. Shahefpeare. 
CONSECR A'TION, f. A rite or ceremony of dedi¬ 
cating and devoting things or perfons to the fervice of 
God, with an application of certain proper folemnities. 
Ayliffe. —We mult know that confecration makes .not a 
place facred, but only folemnly declares it fo : tlfe gift 
of the owner to God makes it God’s, and confequently 
facred. South. —The aft of declaring one holy by cano¬ 
nization.—The calendar fwells with new confecrations of 
faints. Hale. —See the articles, Bishop, vol. iii. p. 66, 
and Church, vol. iv. p. 575. 
CON'SECRATOR, f. One that performs the rites 
by which any thing is devoted to facred purpofes.—■ 
Whether it be not againft the notion of a facrament, that 
the confecrator alone fhould partake of it. Atterbury. 
CON'SECTARY, adj. [from confeElarius, Lat.] Con- 
fequent; confequential; following by confequencc.—< 
e o n 
From the inconfiftent and contrary determinations there¬ 
of, confeElary impieties and conclufions may arife. Brown. 
CON'SECTARY,/ Deduction from premifes ; con- 
fcquenc-e ; corollary.—Thefe propofitions are conJeClaries 
drawn from the obfervations. Woodward. 
CONSECU'TION,/ \_confecutio, Lat.] Train of con- 
fequences ; chain of deductions ; concatenation of pro¬ 
pofitions.-—Some confecutions are fo intimately and evi¬ 
dently connexed to or found in the premifes, that the 
concluiion is attained, and without any thing of ratioci- 
native progrefs. Hale. —Succellion.—In a quick confecti- 
tion of the colours, the impreffion of every colour re¬ 
mains in the fenforium. Newton. —In aftrooomy.—The 
month of confecution, or, as fome term it, of progreffioh, 
is the fpace between one conjunction of the moon with 
the fun unto another. Brown. —The moon makes four 
quarterly feafons within her little year, or month of con- 
Jccution. Holder. 
CONSE'CUTIVE, adj. [ conftculij. j Fr.] Following in 
train; uninterrupted; fuccellive.—-That obligation upon 
the lands did not come into difufe but by fifty confecu five 
years of exemption. Arbuthnot. —Confcquential ; regu¬ 
larly fucceeding.—This is feeming to comprehend only 
the aCtions of a man, confecutive to volition. Locke. 
CONSK'CUTIYELY, adv. A term tiled in the fcliool 
philofophy, in oppolition to antecedently, and fometimes 
to effectively or cafjally. 
CONSEL'VE, a lYnall town in Maritime Auftria, in 
the Paduan, feated in an agreeable plain ; it contains 
five pariihes, a fine cathedral, and 5,700 inhabitants. It 
was formerly the fee of the vicars of the empire, in Italy, 
and the theatre of Ezzelin’s tyranny. The vicarage con¬ 
tains forty-two villages, and 40,000 inhabitants. 
To CONSE'MINATE, v. a. \_confanino, Lat.] To fow 
different feeds together. 
CONSE'NTION,/ \_confenfio, Lat.] Agreement; ac¬ 
cord.—A great number of fuch living and thinking par¬ 
ticles could not poffibly, by their mutual contaCI, and 
prefling and ftriking, compofe one greater individual ani¬ 
mal, with one mind and underftanding, and a vital con- 
JenJion of the whole body. Bentley. 
CONSE'NT,/ \_confenfus, Lat.] The aCt of yielding 
or confenting : 
When thou canft truly call thefe virtues thine, 
Be wife and free, by heaven’s confent and mine. Drydcn. 
Concord ; agreement; accord ; unity of opinion : 
The fighting winds would flop there and admire, 
Learning confent and concord from his lyre. Cowley . 
Coherence with ; relation to ; correfpondence ; 
Demons found 
In fire, air, flood, or underground. 
Whole power hath a true confent 
With planet or with element. Milton. 
Tendency to one point; joint operation : 
Such is the world’s great harmony, that fprings 
From union, order, full confent of things. Pope. 
In phyfic. The perception one part has of another, by 
means of fome fibres and nerves common to them both; 
and thus the Hone in the bladder, by vellicating the fi¬ 
bres there, will affeCt and draw them fo into fpafms, as 
to affeCt the bowels in the fame manner by the interme¬ 
diation of nervous threads, and caufe a colic ; and ex¬ 
tend their twiches fometimes to the ftomach, and occa¬ 
fion vomitings. This is what phyficians term confent of 
parts. 
To CONSE'NT, v. n. [confentio, Lat. ] To be cf the 
fame mind ; to agree : 
Though what thou tell’ft fome doubt within me move. 
But more delire to hear, if thou confent, 
The full relation. Milton . 
To co-operate to the fame end. To yield ; to give con¬ 
fent ; 
