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principal -cdnfonances, that mod ravifh the ear, are, by the 
content of all nature, tire fiitli and the o(Stave. IVotton. — 
And winds and waters flow’d in confonance. Thom/on.- — 
Confidency ; congruence; agreeablenefs. — I have fet 
down tins, to (hew the perfect confonancy of our perfe- 
cuted church to the doctrine of fcripture and antiquity. 
Hammond. —'Agreement; concord; friendlhip. A fenje not 
vow ufed. —Let me conjure you by the rights of our fel- 
lowfhip, by the confonancy of our youth. Shalufpearc. 
CON'SONANT, adj. [ confonans , Lat.] Agreeable ; 
according; confident : followed by either with or to .—• 
That where much is given there (hall be much required, 
is a thing confonant with natural equity. Decay of Piety. — 
He difeovers how confonant the account which Moles 
hath left of the primitive earth, is to this from nature. 
Woodward. 
CON'SONANT, f \_confonans , Lat.] A letter which 
cannot be founded, or but imperfectly, by itfelf. See 
Grammar. —In all vowels the paffage of the mouth is 
open and free, without any appulfe of an organ of fpeech 
to another; but in all confonants there is an appulfe of the 
organs, fometimes (if you abflraCt the confonants from the 
vowels) wholly precluding all found ; and, in all of them, 
more or lefs checking and abetting it. Holder. 
CON'SONANTLY, adv. Confidently; agreeably.— 
Ourfelves are formed according to that mind which frames 
tilings confonantly to their refpeCtive natures. Glanvillc. 
CON'SONANTNESS, f. Agreeablenefs; confidency. 
CON'SONOUS, adj. [confonus, Lat.] Agreeing infound; 
fymphonious. 
CONSOPIA'TION,/. \_confopio, Lat.] The aCt of lay¬ 
ing to deep. Little in vj'e. —One of his maxims is, that a 
total abdinence from intemperance is no more philofophy, 
than a total confopiation of the fenfes is repofe. Digby. 
CON'SORT,yi [ confbrs , Lat. It had anciently the ac¬ 
cent on the latter fyllable, but has it now on the former. 
Milton has ufed them both.] Companion; partner; ge¬ 
nerally a partner of the bed; a wife or hufband : 
Male he created thee, but thy -confort 
Female for race : then blefs’d mankind, and faid, 
Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth. Milton. 
Anafiembly; a divan; a confultation : 
In one confort there fat 
Cruel revenge, and rancorous delpite, 
Difloyal trealon, and heart-burning hate. Spcnfr. 
A number of inflruments playing together; a fymphony. 
This is probably a miflake for concert. —A confort of mulic 
in a banquet of wine, is as a (ignet of carbuncle fet in 
gold. Ecclus. xxxii. 5.—Concurrence; union.—Take it 
fingly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in confort with 
the red, has a meaning quite different. Atterbury. 
CON'SORT, adj. [from the fubdantive, and applied 
only to queens.] The queen confort is the wife of the 
reigning king. Blackfone. 
To CONSO'RT, v. n. To aflociate with ; to unite with ; 
to keep company with.—Which of the Grecian chiefs 
con forts with thee ? Drydcn. 
To CONSO'RT, v. a. To join; to mix ; to marry : 
He, with his conforted Eve, 
The dory heard attentive. Milton. 
To accompany. Not ufed. 
I’ll meet with you upon the mart, 
And afterward confort you till bed-time. Skakefpeare. 
CONSORT'ABLE, adj. To be compared with; to be 
ranked with; fuitable. Not ufed. —He was confortablc to 
Charles Brandon, under Henry VIII. who was equal to 
him. IVotton. 
CONSOR'TION,yi [confortioy Lat.] Partnerfliip ; fel- 
Jowfhip; fodiety. 
CON'SOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Sandomirz : twenty-eight miles fouth-ead of Radom. 
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CONSPECT'ABLE, adj. [from confpedlus, Lat.] Eafy 
to be fee 11. 
CONSPECTU'ITY, f. [from confpedlus, Lat.] Sight; 
view ; fenfe of feeing. This word feems peculiar to Shake- 
fpeare, and perhaps corrupt.—-What harm can your billon 
confpeEluities glean out of this character. Skakefp. Coriolanus. 
CONSPER'SION, f. iconfperfio, Lat.] A fprinkling 
about. 
CONSPICTJ'ITY, f. Brightnefs ; favourablenefs‘to 
the light.—If this definition be clearer than the thing 
defined, midnight may vie for confpicuity with noon. 
Glanville. 
CONSPI'CUOUS, adj. [ confpicuus , Lat.] Obvious to 
the fight; feen at a didance : 
Or come I lefs conjpicuous? Or what change 
Abfents th.ee ? Milton. 
Eminent; famous; uidingnilhed.-—He attributed to each 
of them that virtue which he thought molt confpicuous in 
them. Dry den. 
Thy father’s merit points thee out to view, 
And lets thee in the faired point of light. 
To make thy virtues or thy faults conjpicuous. Addifon. 
CONSPICUOUSLY, adv. Obvioudv to the view.— 
Thefe methods may be preferved conjpicuou/ly, and intirely 
didintt. Watts. —Eminently; famoudy ; remarkably. 
CONSPI'CUOUSNESS, f. Expofure to the view; 
date of being vilible at a didance.—Looked on with fuel) 
a weak light, they appear well-proportioned fabrics; yet 
they appear fo but in that twilight, which is requifite to 
their confpicuovfiefs. Boyle. —Eminence; fame; celebrity. 
—Their writings attract more readers by the author’s 
confpicuoufnfs. Boyle. 
CONSPl'RAC Y,f [ confpiratioy Lat.] A private agree¬ 
ment among feveral perlbns ; a plot; a concerted trealon : 
O confpiracy! 
Sham’d thou to diew thy dang’rous brow' by night. 
When evils are mod free ? Skakefpeare. 
A concurrence; a general tendency of many caufes to 
one event —When the time now came that milery was 
ripe for him, there was a confpiracy in all heavenly and 
earthly things, to frame fit occalions to lead him unto 
it. Sidney. 
CONSPI'RACY, in law, was formerly ufed almod ex- 
clufively, for an agreement of two or more perfons falfely 
to indict one, or to procure him to be indidted of felony ; 
who after acquittal, diall have writ of confpiracy. 33 
Edw.I. 7Hen. V. 18 Hen. VI. c. 12. Now, it is no lels 
commonly ufed for the unlawful combination of journey¬ 
men to raife their wages, or to refufe working, except 
on certain dipulated conditions ; an offence particularly 
provided for by 2 & 3 Edw. VI. c. 15; reviled, conti¬ 
nued, and confirmed, by 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 19, (now ex¬ 
pired;) which enafts among other things, that if any 
artificer do confpire, that they lhall not do their works 
but at a certain price, or lhall not take upon them to fi- 
nilh that another hath begun, or (hall do but a certain 
work in a day, or diall not work but at certain times, 
every perlon fo confpiring, (hall forfeit for the fird of¬ 
fence ten pounds, or be imprifoned twenty days, for the 
lecond twenty pounds, or be pilloried, and for the third 
forty pounds, or be pilloried, lofe an ear, and become 
infamous. But 2 & 3 Edw. VI. c. 15. appears to be 
yet in'force, though not frequently reforted to for remedy 
in this cafe ; the proceeding being ufually by indidfment 
for confpiracy. By the common law there can be no 
doubt but that all confederates whatfoever, wrongfully 
to prejudice a third perfon, are highly criminal. 1 Hawk. 
P. C. c. 72. See the articles Labourer, and Ser'vant. 
Journeymen confederating and refufing to work tin- 
lefs for certain wages, may be indifted for a confpiracy ; 
notwithdanding the datutes which regulate their work 
and wages do not direft this mode of profecution ; for 
this offence confiits in the confpiring, and not in the re- 
fufal; 
