Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 107
Congested (a.) (Bot.) Crowded together. -- Gray.
Congested (a.) (Med.) Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperaemic; -- said of any part of the body.
Congested (a.) Overfull as with blood [syn: congested, engorged].
Congestion (n.) The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [Obs.]
The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. -- Evelyn.
Congestion (n.) (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.
Congestion (n.) Excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part.
Congestion (n.) Excessive crowding; "traffic congestion" [syn: congestion, over-crowding].
Congestion, () The condition that arises when the amount of data that senders want to send down a communication channel exceeds its capacity. Typically this will result in some packets being delayed, thus increasing the average latency. (2014-05-04)
Congestive (a.) (Med.) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.
Congestive (a.) Relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid; "congestive heart disease".
Congiaries (n. pl. ) of Congiary
Congiary (n.) A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius. -- Addison.
Note: In later years, when gifts of money were distributed, the name congius was retained.
Congius (n.) (Roman Antiq.) A liquid measure containing about three quarts.
Congius (n.) (Med.) A gallon, or four quarts. [Often abbreviated to cong.]
Conglaciate (v. t. & i.) To turn to ice; to freeze. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Conglaciation (n.) The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. -- Bacon.
Conglobate (a.) Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.
Conglobated (imp. & p. p.) of Conglobate
Conglobating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conglobate
Conglobate (v. t.) To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together.
Conglobated bubbles undissolved. -- Wordsworth.
Conglobate (v.) Assume a globular shape [syn: conglobate, conglobe].
Conglobation (n.) 成團；球形物 The act or process of forming into a ball. -- Sir T.
Conglobation (n.) A round body.
Conglobation (n.) A rounded spherical form [syn: {conglomeration}, {conglobation}].
Conglobation (n.) An occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass [syn: {conglomeration}, {conglobation}].
Conglobed (imp. & p. p.) of Conglobe
Conglobing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conglobe
Conglobe (v. t. ) To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.
Then founded, then conglobed Like things to like. -- Milton.
Conglobe (v. i.) To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass. -- Milton.
Conglobe (v.) Assume a globular shape [syn: conglobate, conglobe].
Conglobulate (v. i.) To gather into a small round mass.
Conglomerate (a.) Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate. -- Bacon.
Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands. -- Cheyne.
Conglomerate (a.) (Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers. -- Gray.
Conglomerate (a.) (Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
Conglomerate (n.) That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together. -- Trench.
Conglomerate (n.) (Geol.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia.
A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement. -- Lyell.
Conglomerated (imp. & p. p.) of Conglomerate
Conglomerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conglomerate
Conglomerate (v. t.) To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
Conglomerate (a.) Composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England".
Conglomerate (n.) A composite rock made up of particles of varying size [syn: pudding stone, conglomerate].
Conglomerate (n.) A group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization [syn: conglomerate, empire].
Conglomerate (v.) Collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass].
Conglomeration (n.) 團塊，混合物，聚集 The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation.
Conglomeration (n.) That which is conglomerated; a mixed mass; a hodgepodge.
Conglomeration (n.) A rounded spherical form [syn: {conglomeration}, {conglobation}].
Conglomeration (n.) A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn: {aggregate}, {congeries}, {conglomeration}].
Conglomeration (n.) An occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass [syn: {conglomeration}, {conglobation}].
Conglutin (n.) (Chem.) A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.
Conglutinant (a.) Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.
Conglutinate (a.) Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.
Conglutinated (imp. & p. p.) of Conglutinate
Conglutinate (v. t.) To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together.
Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days. -- Boyle.
Conglutinate (v. i.) To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.
Conglutinate (v.) Cause to adhere; "The wounds were coapted" [syn: coapt, conglutinate].
Conglutinate (v.) Stick together; "the edges of the wound conglutinated".
Conglutination (n.) A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union.
Conglutination of parts separated by a wound. -- Arbuthnot.
Conglutination (n.) Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones [syn: union, conglutination].
Conglutination (n.) The union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts [syn: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination].
Conglutinative (a.) Conglutinant.
Congou (n.) Alt. of Congo
Congo (n.) Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea.
Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou, or the "well worked", a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term "English breakfast tea." -- S. W. Williams.
Congou (n.) Black tea grown in China [syn: congou, congo, congou tea, English breakfast tea].
Congo snake (n.)【動】兩棲鯢 (= Congo eel) （一種大型鯢魚，產於美國東南部）An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma.
Congo snake (n.) Aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States [syn: amphiuma, congo snake, congo eel, blind eel].
Congo snake (n.) An aquatic salamander of the genus Amphiuma.
Congo snake (n.) An elongated bluish black amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the southeastern U.S. that has two pairs of very short limbs each with two or three toes and attains a length of three feet -- called also blind eel, congo eel, lamper eel.
Congratulant (a.) Rejoicing together; congratulatory.
With like joy Congratulant approached him. -- Milton.
Congratulated (imp. & p. p.) of Congratulate
Congratulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Congratulate
Congratulate (v. t.) To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.
It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion. -- Shak.
To congratulate one's self, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self happy or fortunate.
Syn: To Congratulate, Felicitate.
Usage: To felicitate is simply to wish a person joy. To congratulate has the additional signification of uniting in the joy of him whom we congratulate. Hence they are by no means synonymous. One who has lost the object of his affections by her marriage to a rival, might perhaps felicitate that rival on his success, but could never be expected to congratulate him on such an event.
Felicitations are little better than compliments; congratulations are the expression of a genuine sympathy and joy. -- Trench.
Congratulate (v. i.) To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country. [R.] -- Swift.
The subjects of England may congratulate to themselves. -- Dryden.
Congratulate (v.) Say something to someone that expresses praise; "He complimented her on her last physics paper" [syn: compliment, congratulate].
Congratulate (v.) Express congratulations [syn: congratulate, felicitate].
Congratulate (v.) Be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school" [syn: pride, plume, congratulate].
Congratulate (v.) Pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement [syn: preen, congratulate].
Congratulation (n.) The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure.
With infinite congratulations for our safe arrival. -- Dr. J. Scott.
Congratulation (n.) The act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration [syn: congratulation, felicitation].
Congratulation (n.) (Usually plural) An expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another; "I sent them my sincere congratulations on their marriage" [syn: congratulation, felicitation].
Congratulation, (n.) The civility of envy.
Congratulator (n.) One who offers congratulation. -- Milton.
Congratulatory (a.) 慶祝的，祝賀的 Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.
Congratulatory (a.) Expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune; "a congratulatory telegram"; "the usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent"; "a gratulatory address" [syn: congratulatory, gratulatory].
Congree (v. i.) To agree. [bs.] -- Shak.
Congreet (v. t.) To salute mutually. [Obs.]
Congregate (a.) Collected; compact; close. [R.] -- Bacon.
Congregated (imp. & p. p.) of Congregate
Congregating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Congregate
Congregate (v. t.) 使聚集，使集合 To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. -- Hooker.
Cold congregates all bodies. -- Coleridge.
The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. -- Milton.
Congregate (v. i.) 聚集，集合 To come together; to assemble; to meet.
Even there where merchants most do congregate. -- Shak.
Congregate (v.) Come together, usually for a purpose; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve".
Congregate (v.) [No object] Gather into a crowd or mass.
‘Some 4,000 demonstrators had congregated at a border point.’
Congregation (n.) [U] 集合，會集；（宗教的）集會；[C] [G]（教堂的）會眾 The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. -- Bacon.
Congregation (n.) A collection or mass of separate things.
A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. -- Shak.
Congregation (n.) An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. -- Macaulay.
Congregation (n.) (Anc. Jewish Hist.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also {Congregation of the Lord}.
It is a sin offering for the congregation. -- Lev. iv. 21.
Congregation (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
Congregation (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
Congregation (n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
Congregation (n.) (Scotch Church Hist.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.
Congregation (n.) A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church [syn: {congregation}, {fold}, {faithful}].
Congregation (n.) An assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over".
Congregation (n.) The act of congregating [syn: {congregation}, {congregating}].
Congregation (n.) (Heb. kahal), the Hebrew people collectively as a holy community (Num. 15:15). Every circumcised Hebrew from twenty years old and upward was a member of the congregation. Strangers resident in the land, if circumcised, were, with certain exceptions (Ex. 12:19; Num. 9:14; Deut. 23:1-3), admitted to the privileges of citizenship, and spoken of as members of the congregation (Ex. 12:19; Num. 9:14; 15:15). The congregation were summonded together by the sound of two silver trumpets, and they met at the door of the tabernacle (Num. 10:3). These assemblies were convened for the purpose of engaging in solemn religious services (Ex. 12:27; Num. 25:6; Joel 2:15), or of receiving new commandments (Ex. 19:7, 8). The elders, who were summonded by the sound of one trumpet (Num. 10:4), represented on various occasions the whole congregation (Ex. 3:16; 12:21; 17:5; 24:1).
After the conquest of Canaan, the people were assembled only on occasions of the highest national importance (Judg. 20; 2 Chr. 30:5; 34:29; 1 Sam. 10:17; 2 Sam. 5:1-5; 1 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 11:19; 21:24; 23:30). In subsequent times the congregation was represented by the Sanhedrim; and the name synagogue, applied in the Septuagint version exclusively to the congregation, came to be used to denote the places of worship established by the Jews. (See {CHURCH}.)
In Acts 13:43, where alone it occurs in the New Testament, it is the same word as that rendered "synagogue" (q.v.) in ver. 42, and is so rendered in ver. 43 in R.V.
Congregation (n.) A group of people assembled for religious worship.
‘The singing of psalms by the whole congregation.’
Congregation (n.) A group of people regularly attending a particular place of worship.
‘He was a member of the Emmanuel Chapel congregation.’
Congregation (n.) A gathering or collection of people, animals, or things.
‘Large congregations of birds may cause public harm.’
Congregation (n.) [Mass noun] The action of gathering together in a crowd.
‘Drought conditions lead to the congregation of animals around watering points.’
Congregation (n.) (In the Roman Catholic Church) A permanent committee of the College of Cardinals.
‘The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.’
Congregation (n.) (British) (In some universities) A general assembly of resident senior members.
Congregation (n.) A group of people obeying a common religious rule but under less solemn vows than members of the older religious orders.
‘The sisters of the Congregation of Our Lady.’
Congregation (n.) A group of communities within a religious order sharing particular historical or regional links.
Congregation (n.) [Rare] A flock of plovers.
‘This is a shorebird beach, with a congregation of plovers inhabiting it.’
Congregational (a.) 會眾的；（C-）公理教會的 Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.
Congregational (a.) Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church.
Congregational (a.) Relating to or conducted or participated in by a congregation; "congregational membership"; "congregational singing".
Congregational (a.) Of or pertaining to or characteristic of a Congregational church [syn: {Congregational}, {Congregationalist}].
Congregational (a.) Relating to a congregation.
‘Congregational singing.’
Congregational (a.) Of or adhering to Congregationalism.
‘The Congregational Church.’
Congregationalism (n.) （基督教）公理主義 That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.
Congregationalism (n.) The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.
Note: In this sense (which is its usual signification) Congregationalism is the system of faith and practice common to a large body of evangelical Trinitarian churches, which recognize the local brotherhood of each church as independent of all dictation in ecclesiastical matters, but are united in fellowship and joint action, as in councils for mutual advice, and in consociations, conferences, missionary organizations, etc., and to whose membership the designation "Congregationalists" is generally restricted; but Unitarian and other churches are Congregational in their polity.
Congregationalism (n.) System of beliefs and church government of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing
Congregationalist (n.) 公理會之教友 One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism.
Congregationalist (a.) 公理會的 Of or pertaining to or characteristic of a Congregational church [syn: {Congregational}, {Congregationalist}].
Congregationalist (n.) A member of the Congregational Church.
Congresses (n. pl. ) of Congress
Congress (n.) A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter. [Obs.]
Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there; Their congress in the field great Jove withstands. -- Dryden.
Congress (n.) A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things. [Obs.]
From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies. -- Cheyne.
Congress (n.) The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition. -- Pennant.
Congress (n.) A gathering or assembly; a conference.
Congress (n.) A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.
The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna. -- Alison.
Congress (n.) The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.
Note: In the Congress of the United States (which took the place of the Federal Congress, March 4, 1789), the Senate consists of two Senators from each State, chosen by the State legislature for a term of six years, in such a way that the terms of one third of the whole number expire every year; the House of Representatives consists of members elected by the people of the several Congressional districts, for a term of two years, the term of all ending at the same time. The united body of Senators and Representatives for any term of two years for which the whole body of Representatives is chosen is called one Congress. Thus the session which began in December, 1887, was the first (or long) session, and that which began in December, 1888, was the second (or short) session, of the Fiftieth Congress. When an extra session is had before the date of the first regular meeting of a Congress, that is called the first session, and the following regular session is called the second session.
Congress (n.) The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.
The Continental Congress, An assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution.
The Federal Congress, The assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789.
Congress boot or Congress gaiter, A high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. [U.S.]
Congress water, A saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York.
Syn: Assembly; meeting; convention; convocation; council; diet; conclave; parliament; legislature.
Congress (n.) The legislature of the United States government [syn: Congress, United States Congress, U.S. Congress, US Congress].
Congress (n.) A meeting of elected or appointed representatives
Congress (n.) A national legislative assembly
Congress (n.) The act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge].
Congress. This word has several significations.
Congress. An assembly of the deputies convened from different governments, to treat of peace or of other political affairs, is called a congress.
Congress. Congress is the name of the legislative body of the United States, composed of the senate and house of representatives. Const. U. S. art. 1, s. 1.
Congress. Congress is composed of two independent houses. 1. The senate and,
Congress. The house of representatives.
Congress. The senate is composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof for six years, and each senator has one vote. They represent the states rather than the people, as each state has its equal voice and equal weight in the senate, without any regard to the disparity of population, wealth or dimensions. The senate have been, from the first formation of the government, divided into three classes; and the rotation of the classes was originally determined by lots, and the seats of one class are vacated at the end of the second year, and one-third of the senate is chosen every second year. Const. U. S. art 1, s. 3. This provision was borrowed from a similar one in some of the state constitutions, of which Virginia gave the first example.
Congress. The qualifications which the constitution requires of a senator, are, that he should be thirty years of age, have been nine years a citizen of the United States, and, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen. Art. 1, s. 3.
Congress. The house of representatives is composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, who are qualified electors of the most numerous branch of the legislature of the state to which they belong.
Congress. No person can be a representative until he has attained the age of twenty-five years, and has been seven years a citizen of the United States, and is, at the time of his election, an inhabitant of the state in which he is chosen. Const. U. S. art. 1, Sec. 2.
Congress. The constitution requires that the representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states, which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. Art. 1, s. 1.
Congress. The number of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one representative. Ib.
Congress. Having shown how congress is constituted, it is proposed here to consider the privileges and powers of the two houses, both aggregately and separately.
Congress. Each house is made the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members. Art. 1, s. 5. As each house acts in these cases in a judicial character, its decisions, like the decisions of any other court of justice, ought to be regulated by known principles of law, and strictly adhered to, for the sake of uniformity and certainty. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties, as, each may provide. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings; punish its members for disorderly behaviour; and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member. Each house is bound to keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, require secrecy; and to enter the yeas and nays on the journal, on any question, at the desire of one-fifth of the members present. Art. 1, s. 5.
Congress. The members of both houses are in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to, and returning from the same. Art. 1, s. 6.
Congress These privileges of the two houses are obviously necessary for their preservation and character; And, what is still more important to the freedom of deliberation, no member can be questioned in any other place for any speech or debate in either house. lb.
Congress. There is no express power given to either house to punish for contempts, except when committed by their own members, but they have such an implied power. 6 Wheat. R. 204. This power, however, extends no further than imprisonment, and that will continue no farther than the duration of the power that imprisons. The imprisonment will therefore terminate with the adjournment or dissolution of congress.
Congress. The house of representatives has the exclusive right of originating bills for raising revenue, and this is the only privilege that house enjoys in its legislative character, which is not shared equally with the other; and even those bills are amendable by the senate in its discretion. Art. 1, s. 7.
Congress. The two houses are an entire and perfect check upon each other, in all business appertaining to legislation and one of them cannot even adjourn, during the session of congress, for more than three days, without the consent of the either nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. Art. 1, s. 5.
Congress. The powers of congress extend generally to all subjects of a national nature. Congress are authorized to provide for the common defence and general welfare; and for that purpose, among other express grants, they have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises; to borrow money on the credit of the United States; to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indians; 1 McLean R. 257; to establish all uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws of bankruptcy throughout the United States; to establish post offices and post roads; to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for a limited time to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; to constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court; to define and punish piracies on the high seas, and offences against the laws of nations; to declare war; to raise and support armies; to provide and maintain a navy; to provide for the calling forth of the militia; to exercise exclusive legislation over the District of Columbia; and to give full efficacy to the powers contained in the constitution.
Congress. The rules of proceeding in each house are substantially the same; the house of representatives choose their own speaker; the vice-president of the United States is, ex officio, president of the senate, and gives the casting vote when the members are equally divided. The proceedings and discussions in the two houses are generally in public.
Congress. The ordinary mode of passing laws is briefly this; one day's notice of a motion for leave to bring in a bill, in cases of a general nature, is required; every bill must have three readings before it is passed, and these readings must be on different days; and no bill can be committed and amended until it has been twice read. In the house of representatives, bills, after being twice read, are committed to a committee of the whole house, when a chairman is appointed by the speaker to preside over the committee, when the speaker leaves the chair, and takes a part in the debate as an ordinary member.
Congress. When a bill has passed one house, it is transmitted, to tho other, and goes through a similar form, though in the senate there is less formality, and bills are often committed to a select committee, chosen by ballot. If a bill be altered or amended in the house to which it is transmitted, it is then returned to the house in which it originated, and if the two houses cannot agree, they appoint a committee to confer on the subject See Conference.
Congress. When a bill is engrossed, and has received the sanction of both houses, it is sent to the president for his approbation. If he approves of the bill, he signs it. If he does not, it is returned, with his objections, to the house in which it originated, and that house enters the objections at large on their journal, and proceeds to re-consider it. If, after such re-consideration, two-thirds of the house agree to pass the bill, it is sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it is likewise re-considered, and if approved by two-thirds of that house, it becomes a law. But in all such cases, the votes of both houses are determined by yeas and nays; and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill, are to be entered on the journal of each house respectively.
Congress. If any bill shall not be returned by the president within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return; in which case it shall not be a law. Art. 1, s. 7. See House of Representatives; President; Senate; Veto; Kent, Com. Lecture xi.; Rawle on the Const. ch. ix.
Congress, med. juris. This name was anciently given in France, England, and other countries, to the-indecent intercourse between married persons, in the presence of witnesses appointed by the courts, in cases when the husband or wife was charged by the other with impotence. Trebuchet, Jurisp. de Med. 101 Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales, art. Congres, by Marc.
Congress, (n.) A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
Congress, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona
Population (2000): 1717Housing Units (2000): 1070Land area (2000): 37.637348 sq. miles (97.480279 sq. km)Water area (2000): 0.031384 sq. miles (0.081284 sq. km)Total area (2000): 37.668732 sq. miles (97.561563 sq. km)FIPS code: 15220Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04Location: 34.146068 N, 112.846533 WZIP Codes (1990): 85332Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.Headwords:Congress, AZCongressCongress, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 192Housing Units (2000): 68Land area (2000): 0.166342 sq. miles (0.430825 sq. km)Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)Total area (2000): 0.166342 sq. miles (0.430825 sq. km)FIPS code: 18308Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39Location: 40.925447 N, 82.053222 WZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.Headwords:Congress, OHCongressCongression (n.) A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse. [R.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Congressional (a.) 會議的，議會的，國會的 Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.
Congressional and official labor. -- E. Everett.Congressional District, One of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States.
Congressional (a.) Of or relating to congress; "congressional hearing".
Congressive (a.) Encountering, or coming together. -- Sir T. Browne.
Congressmen (n. pl. ) of Congressman
Congressman (n.) 美國國會議員（尤指眾議院議員） A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
Congressman (n.) A member of the United States House of Representatives [syn: {congressman}, {congresswoman}, {representative}].
Rocket (n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
Rocket (n.) A blunt lance head used in the joust.
Rocket (n.) Any flying device propelled by the reactive force of hot gases expelled in the direction opposite its motion. The fuel used to generate the expelled gases in rockets may be solid or liquid; rockets propelled by liquid fuels typically have a combustible fuel (such as hydrogen or kerosene) which is combined inside the rocket engine with an oxidizer, such as liquid oxygen. Single liquid fuels (called monopropellants) are also known. Since rocket engines do not depend on a surrounding fluid medium to generate their thrust, as do airplanes with propellers or jet engines, they may be used for propulsion in the vacuum of space.
Congreve rocket, A powerful form of rocket for use in war, invented by Sir William Congreve. It may be used either in the field or for bombardment; in the former case, it is armed with shells or case shot; in the latter, with a combustible material inclosed in a metallic case, which is inextinguishable when kindled, and scatters its fire on every side.
Congreve rocket () See congreve and cf. Rocket.
Congrue (v. i.) To agree; to be suitable. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Congruence (n.) Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. -- Holland.
Congruence (n.) The quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate [syn: congruity, congruousness, congruence] [ant: incongruity, incongruousness].
Congruency (n.) Congruence.
Congruency of lines. (Geom.) See Complex of lines, under Complex, n.
Congruent (a.) Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.
The congruent and harmonious fitting of parts in a sentence. -- B. Jonson.
Congruent figures (Geom.), Concurring figures.
Congruent (a.) Corresponding in character or kind [syn: congruous, congruent] [ant: incongruous].
Congruent (a.) Coinciding when superimposed [ant: incongruent].
Congruism (n.) (Scholastic Theol.) See Congruity.
Congruities (n. pl. ) of Congruity
Congruity (n.) The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ? -- Hooker.A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. -- Sir P. Sidney.Congruity (n.) (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.
Congruity (n.) (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.
Congruity (n.) The quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate [syn: congruity, congruousness, congruence] [ant: incongruity, incongruousness].
Congruous (a.) Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent.
Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry. -- Blair.It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. -- Atterbury.Congruous (a.) Corresponding in character or kind [syn: congruous, congruent] [ant: incongruous].
Congruous (a.) Suitable or appropriate together.
Congruously (adv.) In a congruous manner.
Conhydrine (n.) (Chem.) A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.
Conia (n.) (Chem.) Same as Conine. Conic
Conine (n.) (Chem.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock ({Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.
Conic (n.) (Math.) A conic section.
Conic (a.) Alt. of Conical
Conical (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.
Conical (a.) Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections.
Conic section (Geom.), A curved line formed by the intersection of the surface of a right cone and a plane.
The conic sections are the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. The right lines and the circle which result from certain positions of the plane are sometimes, though not generally included.
Conic sections, That branch of geometry which treats of the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola.
Conical pendulum. See Pendulum.
Conical projection, A method of delineating the surface of a sphere upon a plane surface as if projected upon the surface of a cone; -- much used by makers of maps in Europe.
Conical surface (Geom.), A surface described by a right line moving along any curve and always passing through a fixed point that is not in the plane of that curve.
Conic (a.) Relating to or resembling a cone; "conical mountains"; "conelike fruit" [syn: conic, conical, conelike, cone-shaped].
Conic (n.) (Geometry) A curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone [syn: conic section, conic].
CONIC, () A distributed system language and operating system developed at Imperial College to support dynamic configuration.
Conical (a.) 圓錐形的；圓錐的 Shaped like a cone.
// A conical hat.