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Con*chyl"i*ous (?), a. Conchylaceous.

Con"ci*a`tor (?), n. [It. conciatore, fr. conciare to adjust, dress, fr. L. comtus, p. p. See Compt, a.] (Glass Works) The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.

||Con`cierge" (?), n. [F.] One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

Con*cil"i*a*ble (?), n. [L. conciliabulum, fr. concitium assembly: cf. F. conciliabule. See Council.] A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. [Obs.] Bacon.

Con*cil"i*a*ble, a. [Cf. F. conciliable.] Capable of being conciliated or reconciled. Milton.

Con*cil"i*a*bule (?), n. [See Conciliable, n.] An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable. Milman.

{ Con*cil"i*ar (?), Con*cil"i*a*ry (?) } a. [Cf. F. conciliare.] Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council. Jer. Taylor.

Con*cil"i*ate (?; 106), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conciliated; p. pr & vb. n. Conciliating.] [L. conciliatus, p. p. of conciliare to draw or bring together, unite, from concilium council. See Council.] To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation. Hallam.

Syn. -- To reconcile; propitiate; appease; pacify.

Con*cil`i*a"tion (?), n. [L. conciliatio.] The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated.

The house has gone further; it has declared conciliation admissible previous to any submission on the part of America. Burke.

Con*cil"i*a*tive (?), a. Conciliatory. Coleridge.

Con*cil"i*a`tor (?), n. [L.] One who conciliates.

Con*cil"i*a*to*ry (?; 106), a. Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.

The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.

Con*cin"nate (?), v. t. [L. concinnatus, p. p. of concinnare to concinnate. See Concinnity.] To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear. [Obs.] Holland.

Con*cin"ni*ty (?), n. [L. concinnitas, fr. concinnus skillfully put together, beautiful. Of uncertain origin.] Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.]

An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

Con*cin"nous (?), a. [L. concinnus.] Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant. [R.]

The most concinnous and most rotund of proffessors, M. Heyne. De Quiency.

Con"cio*nate (?), v. i. [L. concionatus, p. p. of concionari to adress.] To preach. [Obs.] Lithgow.

Con"cio*na`tor (?), n. [L.] 1. An haranguer of the people; a preacher.

2. (Old Law) A common councilman. [Obs.]

Con"cio*na`to*ry (?; 106), a. Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses. [Obs.] Howell.

Con*cise" (?), a. [L. concisus cut off, short, p. p. of concidere to cut to pieces; con- + caedere to cut; perh. akin to scindere to cleave, and to E. shed, v. t.; cf. F. concis.] Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson.

Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. I. Watts.