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All derived from 9,053 borrowed from 5,710 learned borrowing from 1,127 calque of 209 semantic loan from 2 complect To join by weaving. completory A compline. complexus A complex, an aggregate of parts comportation The act of bringing together. compositive Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. compositum Given a field extension F/K and subextensions A and B, the smallest subextension that contains both A and B. comprecation The act of praying together. comprobation joint attestation; proof compromit To compromise. compulsative Compulsatory; employing force or constraint. compulsatory Enforced by or resulting from compulsion; employing force or constraint; compulsory. compunct Affected with compunction; regretful, remorseful. compurgation Acquitting someone from a formal charge or accusation following the sworn oaths of a number of other people; vindication. conative Of or pertaining to a striving action. concamerate To arch over; to vault. concameration An arch or vault, especially a system of interconnecting vaults concavous concave concertative Related to concertation, especially in the context of tripartism. conchoid Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts). conchyliated Of a purple colour, distinguished by Pliny from Tyrian purple and amethystine. conciliable Capable of being conciliated or reconciled. concinnate To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear. concinnity The harmonious reinforcement of the various parts of a work of art. concinnous Characterized by concinnity, or (archaic, figurative) neat; elegant. concitation Rousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation. conclamation An outcry or shout of many together. concolour Of the same colour; of uniform colour. concordable Capable of according; agreeing; harmonious concorporation union of things or entities in one mass or body concremation The act of burning different things together, especially in Hinduism, along with a widow. concrescence The growing together and merging of similar or dissimilar parts. concrescible Capable of growing together. concretics Specifics; concrete details. concubinal Of or pertaining to a concubine or concubinage. concubinate A concubinage. concupiscent Amorous; lustful. concupiscential Pertaining to concupiscence; lustful. concupitive Relating to the nature of concupiscence or lust; concupiscible. concuss To injure the brain of, usually temporarily, by violent impact. condiction A claim for restitution of a payment condite To pickle; to preserve. conditory A repository for holding things; a hiding place or relicary. conducent conducive; tending conducible conducive; tending; contributing confessary One who makes a confession. confirmand A candidate for confirmation or affirmation of baptism. confitent A person who confesses; a confessor or penitent confiteor A prayer, typically beginning “I confess to Almighty God…” in English, in which public confession of sins is made. conflagrant Brilliantly burning; of or resembling a conflagration; intensely blazing. conforaneous Of the same court or marketplace. congiary A present of corn, wine, oil, etc. or later of money, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the common people. conglaciate To turn to ice; to freeze. congree To agree. congression The act of coming together; congress. congrue To agree; to be suitable. conject To conjecture. conjector One who guesses or conjectures. connivent Forbearing to see; intentionally inattentive. connixation A large, smothering, and destructive blizzard. connumeration A reckoning or counting together. consanguinamory Consensual adult romantic and/or sexual love between family members; consensual adult incest. consarcination A patching together; patchwork. conscribe To enroll; to enlist. consectaneous Following as a matter of course. consectary That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible. consension Agreement; accord. conservable Capable of being preserved from decay or injury. conservant Having the power or quality of conservation; conserving. considerance An act of considering; consideration. consignation The act of consigning. consilient Of academic disciplines, displaying consilience. consimilar Having similarities in common consobrinal Of or pertaining to a cousin. consociate An associate; an accomplice. consolidant A substance applied to a material, such as rotten wood, to give it solidity and strength. consonous concordant in sound; harmonious consopite To lull to sleep, to quieten, or to dull. consortion joining; association, or companionship conspersion The act of sprinkling. conspissation A thickening or making viscous; thickness conspurcate To pollute; to defile. conspurcation defilement constringent contracting, binding, or compressing. constult To act together in a foolish or stupid manner, to become as great a fool as those around, to behave as much in a foolish or stupid manner as those around. consuetudinal According to custom; customary; usual. consumptuous Synonym of consumptive. contaminable Capable of being contaminated. contemplable Contemplatable contemplant Given to contemplation; meditative. contemporal Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action occurs (and is completed) immediately before the primary action of the statement. contemporanea expositio Legal opinions set forth at the time a document was written. contentation contentment; satisfaction conterminal Conterminous. contesseration A harmonious union. conticent silent contignation The act or process of framing or slotting together, or uniting, like beams in a fabric. contingence Contact; touching. contortuplicate Plaited lengthwise and also twisted. contragredient Generally, denoting an object inversed and transposed (to another). contrahent Entering into covenant; contracting.