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CON [482] CON
wished to be restored to that of men." Edin. Mag.,
Oct. 1818, p. 330.
Either, q. those in whom one is particularly interested,
or those who immediately pertain to one ;
from Fr. concern-er, to belong to.
CONCIOUN, a. 1. An assembly.
"Als sone as he had gottin thaim about him in
maner of concionn, he apperit full of haterent, and
said in this maner." Bellend. T. Liv., p. 164.
2. An address made to an assembly.
"He commandit baith the pepill to compere to his
concioun." Bellend. T. Liv., p. 50.
Lat. vocari ad concionem. Fr. conclon is used in both
senses.
CONCURSE,
s. Concurrence, co-operation.
"That if either the lords of Council or Commissioners
for the Peace shall require their concurse at
home or abroad, by sending commissioners with theirs
to his Majesty and Parliament for that effect, the
Assembly grants full power to them, not only to coucurre,"
&c. Act Ass. A. 1641, p. 147.
Goncurs-us, as bearing this sense, is a term of common
use in the Lat. of scholastic theologians.
* To CONDEMN, v. a. To block up in such
a manner, as to prevent all entrance or passage
; sometimes implying the idea of corporeal
danger, S.
"The Frenchmen maned artaillie on the colledge
steiple, and also vpoun the wallis of the abbey kirk ;
and condemned all the close and wall heidis that war
within the castle : that no man that was within the
castle durst move throw the close, nor pas to the wall
lieadis." Pitscottie's Cron., p. 488.
To CONDESCEND, CONDISCEND,
To agree, to unite ;
S.
v. n. \.
"Quhen thir ten hyrdis var exemnit seueralie ilk
ane be hym self, quhar the Samnete armye vas campit,
thai ansuerit as ther captan Pontius hed giffiu them
command to the ; quhilk vordis the Romans gef credit,
be reson that thai al beand ane be ane exammit condiscendit
in ane ansuer." Compl. S., p. 153.
L. B. condesce.nd-ere, consentire, alicujus sententiam
Du Cange.
sequi ;
the idea
2. Simply, to agree ; not as including
expressed by the term in E., of " consenting
to do more than mere justice can require."
" For keeping the proportion due by the burghs,
it is condescended, that the magistrates within the
burgh shall make choice of their own ordinary number
and quality of the persons used iu such cases, who shall
be sworn to make a just and true estimate of every
man's rent within the burgh, burgage land, and trade,"
&c. Information, A. 1640, Spalding, i. 208.
"The committee of estates at Edinburgh, hearing
how the forbidden name of M 'Gregor and their accom-
plices brake loose about this time, and were soniing
and troubling the king's lieges day and night, condescended
with the laird of Invercauld, for a certain sum
of money, to defend the sheriffdoms of Angus, Mearns,
Aberdeen, and Banff, for a year to come, from all
reif and spoilyie," &c. i. Spalding, 291.
The use of the term in E. comes nearer to the signification
of Fr. condescend-re, "to vouchsafe, yield, grant
unto ;" Cotgr.
It occurs m this sense in 0. E. V. Todd.
To CONDESCEND, v. a. To specify, to parti-
cularise ;
most generally with the prep, upon
added, S.
" That universal conviction, if I may call it so, is
not general, as usually we hear senseless men saying,
that in all things they sin : but it is particular and
condescending, as Paul afterwards spake of himself ;
not only is the chief of sinners, but particularly, he is
a blasphemer, a persecutor." Guthrie's Trial, p. 97.
" Men do not condescend upon what would satisfy
them ; they complain that God will not shew unto
them what he is about to do with them ; but cannot
yet say they know what would satisfy anent his purpose."
Ibid., p. 71.
CONDESCENDENCE, s. A specification of particulars
on any subject, S.
" What his Majesty had most graciously done is
altogether neglected by thir covenanters, as by the
particular coiidescendence contained in their imprinted
protestations at large does appear." i. Spalding, 84.
CONDET, CONDICT, CONDYT, s. Safe con-
duct, passport.
A small haknay he gert till him be tak,
Siluer and gold his costis for to mak,
Set on his clok a takyn for to se,
The Lyouu in wax that suld his condet be.
Wallace, xi. 912. MS. Condict, Doug.
CONDY, s. A conduit, S.
CONDICT, s. Conduit, passage.
Ane greuous wound he hit him in the syde,
Throwout his rybbis can the styff swerd glyile,
Peirsit his coist and breistis condict in hy,
Thare as the fataill deith is maist haisty.
Doug. Virgil, 428. 29. Crates pectoris, Virg.
Teut. konduyt, ductus, meatus ; et alveus, canalis ;
Fr. conduit.
CONDINGLY, adv. Agreeably, lovingly.
Thus it is said of two or more who seem to
be very happy in mutual society, " They're
sittan very condingly there ;" S. B.
An oblique use of E. condignly.
To CONDUCE, v. a. To hire.
"
Gif sa be that ony of thame keip not his conditioun,
in that cais, he that is hyrit sail render agane
to the conducer the haill hyre that he was conducit for,
and sail give thairto alswa of his awin proper gudis
half als mekle money as he sould have had, or was
promist to him be the conducer." Balfour's Pract.,
p. 617.
"Als be the persuasion of flattereris, he conduced
many wicked tyrrantis out of all countries to depend
vpon him." Pitscottie's Cron., i. 18.
" For the conducing & vagingof ane hundreth men
of weir." Aberd. Reg., A. 1548, V. 20.
Lat. conduc-ere, id. ; conductor, one who hires.
CONDUCER,
s. One who hires. V. the c.
CONDUCTIOUN, s. 1. The act of hiring in
general.
Lat. conductio, id.
"
Anentis conductioune of craftismene." Acts Ja.
V., 1540, Ed. 1814, p. 376, Tit.
" Tuechyng the conduciioun & feyng of the menstral-
lis," &c. Aberd. Reg., A. 1538, V. 16.
2. The hiring of troops.
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