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Syn. -- Union; coherence; continuity; junction; association; dependence; intercourse; commerce; communication; affinity; relationship.

Con*nect"ive (?), a. Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.

Connection tissue (Anat.) See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.

Con*nect"ive, n. That which connects. Specifically: (a) (Gram.) A word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition. (b) (Bot.) That part of an anther which connects its thecŠ, lobes, or cells.

Con*nect"ive*ly, adv. In connjunction; jointly.

Con*nect"or (?), n. One who, or that which, connects; as: (a) A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. (b) A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.

Con"ner (?), n. [Cf. Cunner.] (Zo÷l.) A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner.

Con*nex" (?), v. t. [L. connexus, p. p. See Connect.] To connect. Sir M. Hale.

Con*nex"ion (?), n. [L. connexio: cf. F. connexion.] Connection. See Connection.

Con*nex"ive (?), a. See Connective.

Con"ning tow"er (?), n. The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.

Con*niv"ance (?), n. [Cf. F. connivence, L. conniventia.] 1. Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or co÷peration.

2. (Law) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it.

Syn. -- See Collusion.

Con*nive" (k&obreve;n*nīv"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Connived (- nīvd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Conniving.] [L. connivere to shut the eyes, connive, fr. con- + (perh.) a word akin to nicere to beckon, nictare to wink.] 1. To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink. [Obs.]

The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye. Spectator.

2. To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at.

To connive at what it does not approve. Jer. Taylor.

In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving. Burke.

The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule. Macaulay.

Con*nive", v. t. To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see. [R. & Obs.] "Divorces were not connived only, but with eye open allowed." Milton.

Con*niv"en*cy (?), n. Connivance. [Obs.]

Con*niv"ent (#), a. [L. connivens, p. pr.] 1. Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. [R.] Milton.

2. (Biol.) Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc.

Con*niv"er (?), n. One who connives.

Con`nois*seur" (?; 277), n. [F. connaisseur, formerly connoisseur, fr. connaţtre to know, fr. L. cognoscere to become acquainted with; co- + noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know. See Know, amd cf. Cognizor.] One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts.

The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt.

Con`nois*seur"ship (?; 277), n. State of being a connoisseur.