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Con*gres"sion*al (?), a. 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.

Con*gres"sive (?), a. Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.

Con"gress*man (?), n.; pl. Congressmen (&?;). A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.

Con"greve rock"et (?). See under Rocket.

Con"grue" (?), v. i. [L. congruere. See Congruous.] To agree; to be suitable. [Obs.] Shak.

Con"gru*ence (?), n. [L. congruentia: cf. OF. cornguence.] Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. Holland.

Con"gru*en*cy (? or ?), n. Congruence.

Congruency of lines. (Geom.) See Complex of lines, under Complex, n.

Con"gru*ent (?), a. [L. congruens, p. pr. of congruere: cf. F. congruent.] Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.

The congruent and harmonious fitting of parts in a sentence. B. Jonson.

Congruent figures (Geom.), concurring figures.

Con"gru*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. congruisme.] (Scholastic Theol.) See Congruity.

Con*gru"i*ty (? or &?;), n.; pl. Congruities (#). [Cf. F. congruit&?;.] 1. 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.

2. (Geom.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.

3. (Scholastic Theol.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.

Con"gru*ous (?), a. [L. congruus, fr. congruere to come together, to coincide, to agree. Of uncertain origin.] 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.

Con"gru*ous*ly, adv. In a congruous manner.

Con*hy"drine (? or &?;), n. [Conium + hydrate.] (Chem.) A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.

||Co*ni"a (? or &?;), n. [NL. See Conium.] (Chem.) Same as Conine.

{ Con"ic (?), Con"ic*al (?) }, a. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. conique. See Cone.] 1. 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.

2. 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.