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Conjugal: m. ale: f. Coniugall; belonging vnto man and wife, or vnto wedlocke; ioyned, or yoaked together, as man and wife in wedlocke. Os conjugal. as Os Iougal. Conjuger. To play the part of a husband; to know, or vse, his owne wife.

Conjunction. as Conjonction. Conjuncture: f. A coniuncture; a ioyning together. Il venoit en vne fort mauvaise conjuncture. Hee came when all things were cleane off the hindges, or quite out of ioint.

Conjurateur: m. A conspirator.

Conjuration: f. A conspiracie; complotment, priuat confederacie against; also, a coniuration, or coniuring.

Conjure: f. as Conjuration; also, a summoning, or calling of people together.

Conjuré: m. ée: f. Coniured; adiured; earnestly besought, or intreated; also, coniured, or exorcised; also, warned, summoned, or called together; also, conspired against.

Conjurer. To coniure; adiure; beseech earnestly, intreat vehemently; also, to coniure, or exorcise (a spirit;) also, to conspire; complot; ioyne in a priuat confederacie, against. Conjurer la Cour; ou ses hommes. To call, or warne, a Court; to summon, or send for, his people together.

Connaturel: m. elle: f. Connaturall; naturall vnto all alike; also, agreeable to the nature of.

Connestable: m. A Constable; (In former times the maisters of the Kings Horse, and the captaines of certaine bands ingarisonned in frontier townes, and other forts of importance, were tearmed, Connestables: At this day the Constable of France is the principall officer of that Crowne, especially in warlike Expeditions, whereof, in his Princes absence, he is (or should be) the Generall; He also keepes the Kings Sword, and does him homage for it.)

Connestablie: f. A Constableship; the Office, or Place, of a Constable; also, a Captaineship, or Gouernment, held in Peerdome; also, a Squadron, Band, or Batallion, of souldiors.

Connexé: m. ée: f. Knit, ioyned, tyed, trussed together.

Connexion. A connexion; ioyning, knitting, tying, trussing together.

Connexité: f. as Connexion. Connil: m. A Connie, a Rabbet.

Connille: f. A Doe Connie.

Conniller. See Coniller. Connilleur: m. A coward; one that playes least in sight, or hides his head in a hole for feare of being seene.

Connin: m. as Connil. A Connie. Connin, & vilain avec la main: Prov. A Connie dismembred with the hand, a knaue well pummelled with the fists, are much the sooner eaten, or amended.

Conniniere: f. A Connigrey, or warren of Connies.

Connivé: m. ée: f. Winked at; tollerated, suffered, borne with, seene and not seene (of purpose, or by consent.)

Connivence: f. A conniuence, or winking at; a sufferance, tolleration, permission; a seeing, and not seeing (by consent.)

Conniver. To winke at; suffer, tollerate, beare with; to see and not to see; to make as though he neither saw, nor knew ought of the matter.

Connoissance: f. Knowledge. See Cognoissance. Connoistre. To know. See Cognoistre. Connon: m. A long Dray, or Cart, hauing at the fore-*end a Pulley for the drawing vp of loading. ¶Pic. Conoeïdal: m. ale: f. Cone-like; broad, and round at the bottome, and sharpe at the top.

Conopée: f. A Canopie; a Tent, or Pauilion.

Conquassé: m. ée: f. Stamped, pounded; broken, split, quashed in pieces.

Conquasser. To powne, breake, or bruze; to stampe in a morter; to split, or quash in peeces; or, as Concasser. Conque: f. Shell-fish; also, the shell it selfe; sometimes the pearle found in a shell-fish; also, a certaine measure for corne, of 58 pound weight.

Conquerable: com. Conquerable, vanquishable, subdueable, winneable.

Conquerant: m. A conqueror, or ouercommer; a subduer, a vanquisher.

Conquereur. as Conquerant. Conquerir. To conquer, subdue, vanquish, ouercome; ouermaister, bring vnder obedience; also, to get, purchase, win, acquire (during mariage, or iointly with another.) Conquerre. as Conquerir. Conquest: m. An Estate, or Purchase compassed by a mans owne industrie, labour, or meanes; also, a thing got, or matter come by, wherein another is to haue a share; (therein differing from Acquest.) Conqueste: f. A Conquest; the subduing of a forraine countrey; or, the inlarging of his owne dominions by the winning of other mens.

Conquesté: m. ée: f. Conquered, subdued; woon, gotten, purchased.

Conquester. as Conquerir. To subdue, conquer; win; get, purchase.

Conquis: m. ise: f. Conquered; subdued, vanquished, woon; ouermaistered, ouercome, wholly brought vnder; also, gotten, acquired, purchased (as in Conquerir.) Conroy: m. Stuffe throughly tawed, or curried.

Conroyé: m. ée: f. Curried, tawed, or dressed, as leather; rough-hewed, chipped, squared, or fashioned as tymber; also, well wrought; well sadned, or setled, by working.

Conroyement: m. A currying, or dressing of leather; a chipping, or squaring of tymber.

Conroyer. To currie, tawe, or dresse, as leather; also, to chip, rough hew, or square, as tymber; and (metaphorically) to worke throughly; or, to sadden, or settle together by a through working.

Conroyeur: m. A Currier; a Leather dresser.

Consacré: m. ée: f. Consecrated, hallowed, dedicated, deuoted vnto.

Consacrer. To consecrate, hallow, dedicate, or deuote vnto.

Consalme de mer. The great horse-muskle.

Consanguinité: f. Consanguinitie, neerenesse in bloud, kindred by birth, or bloud.

Consaul. as Conseil. (an old word.) Consçachance: f. A full knowledge, or notice of.

Consçachant de. Fully acquainted with, or priuie vnto; hauing notice, or knowledge enough of.

Conscience: f. Conscience; the testimonie of our owne knowledge, the witnesse of our owne thoughts; a remorse, or a remorsefull remembrance, of.
  Conscience à pont levis. A very large conscience; the humor of such as dare commit, or will admit of, any villanie.