Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 111
Conservatism (n.) 保守主義；保守的傾向 The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.
Conservatism (n.) A political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes [syn: {conservatism}, {conservativism}].
Conservationist (n.) 天然資源保護論者 [C] Someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution [syn: {environmentalist}, {conservationist}].
Conservative (n.) 保守主義者 One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. -- Jer. Taylor.
Conservative (n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
Conservative (n.) (Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party.
Conservative (a.) 保守的，守舊的 Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
Conservative (a.) Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
Conservative (a.) Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.
We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party. -- Quart. Rev. (1830).
Conservative system (Mech.), A material system of such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces. -- Clerk Maxwell.
Conservative (a.) Resistant to change [ant: {liberal}].
Conservative (a.) Having social or political views favoring conservatism.
Conservative (a.) Avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: {cautious}, {conservative}].
Conservative (a.) Unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek [syn: {button-down}, {buttoned-down}, {conservative}].
Conservative (a.) Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: {bourgeois}, {conservative}, {materialistic}].
Conservative (n.) A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas [syn: {conservative}, {conservativist}] [ant: {liberal}, {liberalist}, {progressive}].
Conservative (n.) A member of a Conservative Party.
Conservative (n.) A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Conservative (n.) （大寫）（英國，加拿大等）保守黨黨員（或支持者） A member of the Conservative party.
Conservative (a.) (Against change) (C1) 保守的；守舊的 Not usually liking or trusting change, especially sudden change.
// A conservative society/ outlook.
// Older people tend to be more conservative and a bit suspicious of anything new.
Compare: Liberal
Liberal (a.) (Society) (C1) 自由開放的，開放的，開明的 Respecting and allowing many different types of beliefs or behaviour.
// A liberal society/ attitude.
// Her parents were far more liberal than mine.
Opposite: Illiberal
Illiberal (a.) (Formal) （言論、思想、行為等）不自由的，不開明的，狹隘的 Limiting freedom of expression, thought, behaviour, etc.
// Illiberal policies.
Liberal (a.) (Politics) (C1) (Of a political party or a country) （指政黨或國家）自由的，開放的 Believing in or allowing more personal freedom and development towards a fairer sharing of wealth and power within society.
Liberal (a.) (Generous) (Formal) 慷慨的，大方的，毫不吝嗇的 Giving or given in a generous way.
// He was very liberal with the wine.
Liberal (a.) (Not exact) 不確切的，模糊的，籠統的 Not exact; without attention to or interest in detail.
// A liberal interpretation of the law.
Liberal (n.) [ C ] 自由主義者 Someone who respects many different types of beliefs or behaviour.
// He's a good old-fashioned liberal.
Conservative (a.) （外表上）保守的，傳統的，不趕潮流的 If you are conservative in your appearance, you usually do not like fashionable or modern clothes or hairstyles.
// He's a very conservative dresser - he always looks like he's wearing his father's clothes!
Conservative (a.) (Low) （猜測、計算）保守的，低估的 A conservative guess or calculation is likely to be less than the real amount.
// If I said there were three million unemployed, that would be a conservative estimate.
Conservative (a.) (Also Tory) （英國）保守黨的 Belonging to or supporting the British political party that traditionally supports business and opposes high taxes and government involvement in industry.
// The Conservative Party.
// Conservative policies.
// A Conservative MP/ government.
// Did you vote Conservative at the last election?
Conservatism (n.) [U] 保守，守舊；保守主義 Conservative actions and beliefs.
Conservatively (adv.) In a conservative manner; "we estimated the number o demonstrators conservatively at 200,000." [syn: conservatively, cautiously, guardedly].
Conservativeness (n.) The quality of being conservative.
Conservativeness (n.) [U] The state or quality of being conservative.
Conservatoire (n.) [F.] 【法】音樂學校；藝術學校 A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3].
Conservatoire (n.) A schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts [syn: conservatory, conservatoire].
Conservator (n.) 保護者；管理員 One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.
The great Creator and Conservator of the world. -- Derham.
Conservator (n.) (Law) An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.
Conservator (n.) (Law) One who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate.
The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms. -- Clarendon.
The conservator of the estate of an idiot. -- Bouvier.
Conservators of the River Thames, A board of commissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames.
Conservator (n.) The custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) [syn: curator, conservator].
Conservator (n.) Someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person.
Conservator (n.) A preserver, a protector.
Conservator (n.) Before the institution of the office of justices of the peace in England, the public order was maintained by officers who bore the name of conservators of the peace. All judges, justices, sheriffs and constables, are conservators of the peace, and are bound, ex officio, to be aiding and assisting in preserving older.
Conservator (n.) In Connecticut, this term is applied to designate a guardian who has the care of the estate of an idiot. 5 Conn. R. 280.
Conservatorship (n.) （監護人對被監護人財產的）保管；監護 The position of being a conservator, especially a person who repairs, restores, or maintains the condition of objects in a museum, library, etc.:
The program will give participants an opportunity to get a feel for the level of precision and care necessary for a career in museum conservatorship.
Conservatorship (n.) (Law.) An agreement or order under which one person or entity controls the personal and financial affairs of another, such as a minor or someone who is considered legally incapable of managing their own affairs:
She's under a court-approved conservatorship that oversees every significant purchase and every key decision that she wants to make.
Conservatorship (n.) (Law.) An agreement whereby a business or financial entity is placed under the control of another entity, usually temporarily and often as a result of prior or impending failure:
This week, a bipartisan coalition in the legislature is demanding that the agency's leaders be replaced and the agency be put under an independent conservatorship.
Conservatory (a.) 保存性的；有保存力的 Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
Conservatory (n.) 溫室；音樂學校 That which preserves from injury. [Obs.] "A conservatory of life." -- Jer. Taylor.
Conservatory (n.) A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants.
Conservatory (n.) A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.
Conservatory (n.) The faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts.
Conservatory (n.) A schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts [syn: conservatory, conservatoire].
Conservatory (n.) A greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner [syn: conservatory, hothouse, indoor garden].
Conservatrix (n.) 女監護人 A woman who preserves from loss, injury, etc.
Conserved (imp. & p. p.) of Conserve.
Conserving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conserve.
Conserve (v. t.) 保存；保護；節省；用糖保存，將……做成蜜餞；將水果做成蜜餞 【物】使守恆 To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor. -- Strype.
Conserve (v. t.) To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.
Conserve (n.) Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection.
I shall . . . study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman. -- Tatler.
Conserve (n.) (Med.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.
Conserve (n.) A conservatory. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Conserve (n.) Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar [syn: {conserve}, {preserve}, {conserves}, {preserves}].
Conserve (v.) Keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change; "Energy is conserved in this process."
Conserve (v.) Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts" [syn: {conserve}, {preserve}, {maintain}, {keep up}].
Conserve (v.) Use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit" [syn: {conserve}, {husband}, {economize}, {economise}] [ant: {blow}, {squander}, {waste}].
Conserve (v.) Preserve with sugar; "Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard."
Conserver (n.) One who conserves.
Conserving (a.) Protecting or saving from harm or loss; as, serves a conserving function.
Syn: preserving.
Compare: Preserving
Preserving (n.) [U] (US also Canning) 密封保存；密封保鮮 The activity of treating food and storing it in closed containers that air cannot enter so that it can be kept for a long time without going bad.
// Before fridges, preserving was the only way to store fruit.
// Pickling refers to the preserving of food by steeping it in a brine of vinegar.
Conserving (n.) The preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources.
Syn: conservation, conservancy.
Considered (imp. & p. p.) of Consider.
Considering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consider.
Consider (v. t.) 考慮，細想 [+v-ing] [+wh-]；考慮到 [+that] [+wh-]；認為；把……視為 [W] [O2] [O8] [O9] [+that] To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.
I will consider thy testimonies. -- Ps. cxix. 95.
Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considered all things visible. -- Milton.
Consider (v. t.) To look at attentively; to observe; to examine.
She considereth a field, and buyeth it. -- Prov. xxxi. 16.
Consider (v. t.) To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day Was yours by accident. -- Shak.
England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad. -- Sir W. Temple.
Consider (v. t.) To estimate; to think; to regard; to view.
Considered as plays, his works are absurd. -- Macaulay.
Note: The proper sense of consider is often blended with an idea of the result of considering; as, "Blessed is he that considereth the poor." -- Ps. xli. 1.; i.e., considers with sympathy and pity. "Which [services] if I have not enough considered." -- Shak.; i.e., requited as the sufficient considering of them would suggest. "Consider him liberally." -- J. Hooker.
Syn: To ponder; weigh; revolve; study; reflect or meditate on; contemplate; examine. See {Ponder}.
Consider (v. i.) 考慮，細想To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
We will consider of your suit. -- Shak.
'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so. -- Shak.
She wished she had taken a moment to consider, before rushing down stairs. -- W. Black
Consider (v. i.) To hesitate. [Poetic & R.] -- Dryden.
Consider (v.) Deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: {see}, {consider}, {reckon}, {view}, {regard}].
Consider (v.) Give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of moving" [syn: {study}, {consider}].
Consider (v.) Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case" [syn: {consider}, {take}, {deal}, {look at}].
Consider (v.) Show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient" [syn: {consider}, {count}, {weigh}].
Consider (v.) Think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: {consider}, {debate}, {moot}, {turn over}, {deliberate}].
Consider (v.) Judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior" [syn: {think}, {believe}, {consider}, {conceive}].
Consider (v.) Look at attentively [syn: {regard}, {consider}].
Consider (v.) Look at carefully; study mentally; "view a problem" [syn: {view}, {consider}, {look at}].
Consider (v.) Regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem; "Please consider your family."
Considerability (n.) [U.] The state or quality of being considerable.
Considerable (a.) 相當大的；相當多的；值得考慮的；重要的 (n.)【美】【口】大量 [U] Worthy of consideration; requiring to be observed, borne in mind, or attended to.
It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. -- Tillotson.
Considerable (a.) Of some distinction; noteworthy; influential; respectable; -- said of persons.
You are, indeed, a very considerable man. -- Junius.
Considerable (a.) Of importance or value.
In painting, not every action, nor every person, is considerable enough to enter into the cloth. -- Dryden.
A considerable sum of money. -- Prescott.
Considerable (a.) Large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree; "a considerable quantity"; "the economy was a considerable issue in the campaign"; "went to considerable trouble for us"; "spent a considerable amount of time on the problem" [ant: {inconsiderable}].
Considerable (a.) (B2) 相當大的；相當多的；非常可觀的；相當重要的 Large or of noticeable importance.
// The fire caused considerable damage to the church.
Considerableness (n.) Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount.
Considerableness (n.) [U] Considerability.
Considerableness (n.) The state or quality of being considerable.
Considerably (adv.) 相當，非常，頗 In a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much.
Considerance (n.) Act of considering; consideration.
Considerate (a.) Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other.
Considerate (a.) Having respect to; regardful.
Consideration (n.) The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention.
Let us think with consideration. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Consideration, like an angel, came. -- Shak.
Consideration (n.) Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence.
The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration. -- D. Webster.
The consideration with which he was treated. -- Whewell.
Consideration (n.) Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice.
Consideration for the poor is a doctrine of the church. -- Newman.
Consideration (n.) Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence.
Lucan is the only author of consideration among the Latin poets who was not explained for . . . the Dauphin. -- Addison.
Consideration (n.) The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession.
Consideration (n.) That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason.
He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations, to search an asylum. -- Dryden.
Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment. -- Macaulay.
Consideration (n.) (Law) The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent. -- Bouvier.
Note: Consideration is what is done, or promised to be done, in exchange for a promise, and "as a mere advantage to the promisor without detriment to the promisee would not avail, the proper test is detriment to the promisee." -- Wharton.
Consideration (n.) The process of giving careful thought to something.
Consideration (n.) Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take" [syn: circumstance, condition, consideration].
Consideration (n.) A discussion of a topic (as in a meeting); "consideration of the traffic problem took more than an hour."
Consideration (n.) Kind and considerate regard for others; "he showed no consideration for her feelings" [syn: consideration, considerateness, thoughtfulness] [ant: inconsiderateness, inconsideration, thoughtlessness].
Consideration (n.) A fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone [syn: retainer, consideration].
Consideration (n.) A considerate and thoughtful act [syn: consideration, thoughtfulness].
Consideration, () contracts. A compensation which is paid, or all inconvenience suffered by the, party from whom it proceeds. Or it is the reason whichmoves the contracting party to enter into the contract. 2 Bl. Com. 443. Viner defines it to be a cause or occasion meritorious, requiring a mutual recompense in deed or in law. Abr. tit. Consideration, A. A consideration of some sort or other, is so absolutely necessary to the forming a good contract, that a nudum pactum, or an agreement to do or to pay any thing on one side, without any compensation to the other, is totally void in law, and a man cannot be compelled to perform it. Dr. & Stud. d. 2, c. 24 3 Call, R. 439 7 Conn. 57; 1 Stew. R. 51 5 Mass. 301 4 John. R. 235; C. Yerg. 418; Cooke, R. 467; 6 Halst. R. 174; 4 Munf. R. 95. But contracts under seal are valid without a consideration; or, perhaps, more properly speaking, every bond imports in itself a sufficient consideration, though none be mentioned. 11 Serg. & R. 107. Negotiable instruments, as bills of exchange and promissory notes, carry with them prima facie evidence of consideration. 2 Bl. Com. 445.
Consideration, () The consideration must be some benefit to the party by whom the promise is made, or to a third person at his instance; or some detriment sustained at the instance of the party promising, by the party in whose favor the promise is made. 4 East, 455;1 Taunt. 523 Chitty on Contr. 7 Dr. & Stu. 179; 1 Selw. N. P. 39, 40; 2 pet. 182 1 Litt. 123; 3 John. 100; 6 Mass. 58 2 Bibb. 30; 2 J. J. Marsh. 222; 5 Cranch, 142, 150 2 N. H. Rep. 97 Wright, It. 660; 14 John. R. 466 13 S. & R. 29 3 M. Gr. & Sc. 321.
Consideration, () Considerations are good, as when they are for natural love and affection; or valuable, when some benefit arises to the party to whom they are made, or inconvenience to the party making them. Vin. Abr. Consideration, B; 5 How. U. S. 278; 4 Barr, 364; 3 McLean, 330; 17 Conn. 511; 1 Branch, 301; 8 Ala. 949.
Consideration, () They are legal, which are sufficient to support the contract or illegal, which render it void. As to illegal considerations, see 1 Hov. Supp. to Ves. jr. 295; 2 Hov. Supp. to Ves. jr. 448; 2 Burr. 924 1 Bl. Rep. 204. If the, performance be utterly impossible, in fact or in law, the consideration is void. 2 Lev. 161; Yelv. 197, and note; 3 Bos. & Pull. 296, n. 14 Johns. R. 381.
Consideration, () A mere moral obligation to pay a debt or perform a duty, is a sufficient consideration for an express promise, although no legal liability existed at the time of making such promise. Cowp. 290 Bl. Com. 445 3 Bos. & Pull. 249, note; 2 East, 506; 3 Taunt. 311; 5 Taunt. 36; 13 Johns. R. 259; Yelv. 41, b, note; 3 Pick. 207. But it is to be observed, that in such cases there must have been a good or valuable consideration; for example, every one is under a moral obligation to relieve a person in distress, a promise to do so, however, is not binding in law. One is bound to pay a debt which he owes, although he has been released; a promise to pay such a debt is obligatory in law on the debtor, and can therefore be enforced by action. 12 S. & R. 177; 19 John. R. 147; 4 W. C. C. R. 86, 148; 7 John. R. 26; 14 John. R. 178; 1 Cowen, R. 249; 8 Mass. R. 127. See 7 Conn. R. 57; 1 Verm. R. 420; 5 Verm. R. 173; 5. Ham. R. 58; 3 Penna. R. 172; 5 Binn. R. 33.
Consideration, () In respect of time, a consideration is either, 1st. Executed, or Something done before the making of the obligor's promise. Yelv. 41, a. n. In general, an executed consideration is insufficient to support a contract; 7 John. R. 87; 2 Conn. R. 404; 7 Cowen, R. 358; but an executed consideration on request; 7 John. R. 87 1 Caines R. 584; or by some previous duty, or if the debt be continuing at the time, or it is barred by some rule of law, or some provision of a statute, as the act of limitation, it issufficient to maintain an action. 4 W. C. C. R. 148 14 John. R. 378 17 S. & R. 126. 2d. Executory, or something to be done after such promise. 3d. Concurrent, as in the case of mutual promises; and, 4th. A continuing consideration. Chitty on Contr. 16.
Consideration, () As to cases where the contract has been set aside on the ground of a total failure of the consideration, see 11 Johns. R. 50; 7 Mass. 14; 8 Johns. R. 458; 8 Mass. 46 6 Cranch, 53; 2 Caines' Rep. 246 and 1 Camp. 40, n. When the consideration turns out to be false and fails, there is no contract; as, for example, if my father by his will gives me all his estate, charged with the payment of a thousand dollars, and I promise to give you my house instead of the legacy to you, and you agree to buy it with the legacy, and before the contract is completed, and I make you a deed for the house, I discover that my father made a codicil to his will and by it be revoked the gift to you' I am not bound to complete the contract by making you a deed for my house. Poth. on Oblig. part 1, c. 1, art. 3, Sec. 6. See, in general, Obligation,, New Promise; Bouv. Inst. Index. b. t,; Evans' Poth. vol. ii. p. 19; 1 Fonb. Eq. 335; Newl. Contr. 65; 1 Com. Contr. 26; Fell on Guarrant. 337; 3 Chit. Com. Law, 63 to 99; 3 Bos. & Pull. 249, n; 1 Fonb. Eq. 122, note z; Id. 370, note g; 5 East, 20, n.; 2 Saund. 211, note 2; Lawes Pl. Ass. 49; 1 Com. Dig. Action upon the case upon Assumpsit, B Vin. Abr. Actions of Assumpsit, Q; Id. tit. Consideration.
Considerative (a.) Considerate; careful; thoughtful. [Archaic]
I love to be considerative. -- B. Jonson.
Considerator (n.) One who considers. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Considerer (n.) One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. -- Milton.
Consideringly (adv.) With consideration or deliberation.
Consign (v. i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self. [Obs.]
All lovers young, all lovers must Consign to thee, and come to dust. -- Shak.
Consign (v. i.) To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce. [Obs.]
Augment or alter . . . And we'll consign thereto. -- Shak.
Consigned (imp. & p. p.) of Consign.
Consigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consign.
Consign (v. t.) To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave.
At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. -- Atterbury.
Consign (v. t.) To give in charge; to commit; to intrust.
Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. -- Pope.
The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. -- Addison.
Consign (v. t.) (Com.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods.
Consign (v. t.) To assign; to devote; to set apart.
The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor. -- Dryden.
Consign (v. t.) To stamp or impress; to affect. [Obs.]
Consign my spirit with great fear. -- Jer. Taylor.
Syn: To commit; deliver; intrust; resign. See Commit.
Consign (v.) Commit forever; commit irrevocably.
Consign (v.) Give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage" [syn: consign, charge].
Consign (v.) Send to an address.
Consign (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 運送；投遞；托運；交付 To send something to someone.
// The goods have been consigned to you by air.
Consignee (n.) [ C ] (Formal) 收貨人；收件人 The person something is sent to.
// Goods must be signed for by the consignee.
Phrasal verb: Consign sb/ sth to sth
Consign sb/ sth to sth (- Phrasal verb with consign) (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 把…打發掉；把…置於，使…處於（不利境地） To get rid of someone or something or to put him, her, or it in an unpleasant place or situation.
// To be consigned to prison.
// After the financial disaster, she was consigned to a life of poverty.
Consignatary (n.) A consignee. [Obs.] -- Jenkins.
Consignation (n.) The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state. [Obs.]
So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. -- Jer. Taylor.
Consignation (n.) The act of ratifying or establishing, as if by signing; confirmation; ratification.
A direct consignation of pardon. -- Jer. Taylor.
Consignation (n.) A stamp; an indication; a sign. [Obs.]
The most certain consignations of an excellent virtue. -- Jer. Taylor.
Consignatory (n.) One of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty. -- Fallows.
Consignature (n.) Joint signature. [R.] -- Colgrave.
Consigne (n.) (Mil.) A countersign; a watchword.
Consigne (n.) (Mil.) One who is orders to keep within certain limits.
Consignee (n.) 承銷人；受託者；收件人 The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor.
Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise. -- De Colange.
Consignee (n.) The person to whom merchandise is delivered over.
Consignee, () contracts. One to whom a consignment is made.
Consignee, () When the goods consigned to him are his own, and they have been ordered to be sent, they are at his risk the moment the consignment is made according to his direction; and the persons employed in the transmission of the goods are his agents. 1 Liverm. on Ag, 9. When the goods are not his own, if he accept the consignment, he is bound to pursue the instructions of the consignor; as if the goods be consigned upon condition that the consignee will accept the consignor's bills, he is bound to accept them; Id. 139; or if he is directed to insure, he must do so. Id. 325.
Consignee, () It is usual in bills of lading to state that the goods are to be delivered to the consignee or his assigns, he or they paying freight; in such case the consignee or his assigns, by accepting the goods, by implication, become bound to pay the freight, Abbott on Sh. p. 3, c. 7, Sec. 4; 3 Bing. R, 383.
Consignee, () When a person acts, publicly as a consignee, there is an implied engagement on his part that he will be vigilant in receiving goods consigned to his care, so as to make him responsible for any loss which the owner may sustain in consequence of his neglect. 9 Watts & Serg. 62.
Consignor (n.) One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also consigner.]
Consigner (n.) One who consigns. See Consignor.
Consigner (n.) The person who delivers over or commits merchandise [syn: consigner, consignor].
Consignificant (a.) Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] -- Spelman.
Consignification (n.) Joint signification. [R.]
Consignificative (a.) Consignificant; jointly significate. [R.]
Consignify (v. t.) To signify or denote in combination with something else.
The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. -- Horne Tooke.
Consignment (n.) 委託；交付；運送 [U]；託付物；託賣品；遞運的；委託貨物 [C] The act of consigning; consignation.
Consignment (n.) (Com.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.
Consignment (n.) (Com.) That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance.
To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce. -- Burke.
Consignment (n.) The writing by which anything is consigned.
Consignment (n.) Goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment].
Consignment (n.) The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: commitment, committal, consignment].
Consignment (n.) The delivery of goods for sale or disposal.
Consignor (n.) One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also consigner.]
Consignor (n.) The person who delivers over or commits merchandise [syn: consigner, consignor].
Consignor, () contracts. One who makes a consignment to another.
Consignor, () When goods are consigned to be sold on commission, and the property remains in the consignor; or when goods have been consigned upon a credit, and the consignee has become a bankrupt or failed, the consignor has a right to stop them in transitu. (q.v.) Abbot on Sh. p. 3, c.
Consignor, () The consignor is generally liable for the freight or the hire for the carriage of goods. 1 T. R. 659.
Consilience (n.) Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.
The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. -- Whewell. Consimilitude
Consimilitude (n.) Alt. of Consimility.
Consimility (n.) Common resemblance. [Obs.] -- Aubrey.
Consisted (imp. & p. p.) of Consist.
Consisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consist.
Consist (v. i.) 組成，構成 [（+of）]；在於，存在於 [（+in）]； 一致，符合 [（+with）] To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.
He is before all things, and by him all things consist. -- Col. i. 17.
Consist (v. i.) To be composed or made up; -- followed by of.
The land would consist of plains and valleys. -- T. Burnet.
Consist (v. i.) To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in.
If their purgation did consist in words. -- Shak.
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. -- Luke xii. 15.
Consist (v. i.) To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with.
This was a consisting story. -- Bp. Burnet.
Health consists with temperance alone. -- Pope.
For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. -- Milton.
Consist (v. i.) To insist; -- followed by on. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Syn: To Consist, Consist of, Consist in.
Usage: The verb consist is employed chiefly for two purposes, which are marked and distinguished by the prepositions used. When we wish to indicate the parts which unite to compose a thing, we use of; as when we say, "Macaulay's Miscellanies consist chiefly of articles which were first published in the Edinburgh Review." When we wish to indicate the true nature of a thing, or that on which it depends, we use in; as, "There are some artists whose skill consists in a certain manner which they have affected." "Our safety consists in a strict adherence to duty." Consistence
Consist (v.) Originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" [syn: dwell, consist, lie, lie in].
Consist (v.) Have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in; "The payment consists in food"; "What does love consist in?"
Consist (v.) Be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous; "Desires are to be satisfied only so far as consists with an approved end."
Consist (v.) Be composed of; "The land he conquered comprised several provinces"; "What does this dish consist of?" [syn: consist, comprise].
Consistence (n.) Alt. of Consistency.
Consistency (n.) （液體等的）濃度；黏稠；堅硬；堅硬度 [U] [C]；一貫；一致；符合；協調 [U] The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.
Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. -- Bacon.
We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. -- Jer. Taylor.
The same form, substance, and consistency. -- T. Burnet.
Consistency (n.) A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude; a measure of the ability to hold together when manipulated.
Syn: body.
Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup. -- Arbuthnot.
Consistency (n.) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
The church of God, as meaning the whole consistence of orders and members. -- Milton.
Consistency (n.) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency. -- South.
Consistency (n.) Agreement or harmony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character.
That consistency of behavior whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just. -- Addison.
Consistency, thou art a jewel. -- Popular Saying.
Consistence (n.) A harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts [syn: consistency, consistence] [ant: inconsistency].
Consistence (n.) The property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency, consistence, eubstance, body].
Consistency (n.) The property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: {consistency}, {consistence}, {eubstance}, {body}].
Consistency (n.) A harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts [syn: {consistency}, {consistence}] [ant: {inconsistency}].
Consistency (n.) Logical coherence and accordance with the facts; "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency."
Consistency (n.) (Logic) An attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another.
Consistent (a.) 始終如一的，前後一致的 [（+in）]； 與……一致的；符合的 [F] [（+with）]；【罕】連在一起的；堅實的；堅固的 Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.
The humoral and consistent parts of the body. -- Harvey.
Consistent (a.) Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not contradictory.
Show me one that has it in his power To act consistent with himself an hour. -- Pope.
With reference to such a lord, to serve and to be free are terms not consistent only, but equivalent. -- South.
Consistent (a.) Living or acting in conformity with one's belief or professions.
It was utterly to be at once a consistent Quaker and a conspirator. -- Macaulay.
Consistent (a.) (Sometimes followed by `with') In agreement or consistent or reliable; "testimony consistent with the known facts"; "I have decided that the course of conduct which I am following is consistent with my sense of responsibility as president in time of war"- FDR [ant: inconsistent].
Consistent (a.) Capable of being reproduced; "astonishingly reproducible results can be obtained" [syn: reproducible, consistent] [ant: irreproducible, unreproducible].
Consistent (a.) Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a coherent argument" [syn: coherent, consistent, logical, ordered] [ant: incoherent].
Consistent (a.) The same throughout in structure or composition; "bituminous coal is often treated as a consistent and homogeneous product" [syn: consistent, uniform].
Consistent, () That which agrees with something else; as a consistent condition, which is one which agrees with all other parts of a contract, or which can be reconciled with every other part. 1 Bouv. Just. n. 752,
Consistently (adv.) 一貫地；固守地；始終如一地 In a consistent manner.
Consistently (adv.) In a systematic or consistent manner; "they systematically excluded women" [syn: {systematically}, {consistently}] [ant: {inconsistently}, {unsystematically}].