Part 2140

<h1>Comicry</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"ic*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The power of exciting mirth; comicalness.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>H. Giles.</i>

<h1>Coming</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; <as>as, the <ex>coming</ex> week or year; the <ex>coming</ex> exhibition.</as></def>

<blockquote>Welcome the <b>coming</b>, speed the parting, guest. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Your <b>coming</b> days and years. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Ready to come; complaisant; fond.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Coming</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Approach; advent; manifestation; <as>as, the <ex>coming</ex> of the train</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ.</def>

<cs><col>Coming in</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> <def>Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning.</def> "The goings out thereof, and the <i>comings in<i> thereof."</cd></cs>

<i>Ezek. xliii. 11</i>

<sd>(b)</sd> <def>Income or revenue.</def> "What are thy <i>comings in</i>?"

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Comitia</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Co*mi"ti*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>, <plu>pl.</plu> <ety>[L.]</ety> <fld>(Rom. Antiq.)</fld> <def>A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws.</def>

<note>&hand; There were three kinds of <i>comitia</i>: <i>comitia curiata</i>, or assembly of the patricians, who voted in curi\'91; <i>comitia centuriata</i>, or assembly of the whole Roman people, who voted by centuries; and <i>comitia tributa</i>, or assembly of the plebeians according to their division into tribes.</note>

<h1>Comitial</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Co*mi"tial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>comitialis</ets>.]</ety> <def>Relating to the comitia, or popular assembles of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws.</def>

<i>Middleton.</i>

<h1>Comity</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Comities</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[L. <ets>comitas</ets>, fr. <ets>comis</ets> courteous, kind.]</ety> <def>Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly equals; friendly civility; <as>as, <ex>comity</ex> of manners; the <ex>comity</ex> of States.</as></def>

<cs><col>Comity of nations</col> <fld>(International Law)</fld>, <cd>the courtesy by which nations recognize within their own territory, or in their courts, the peculiar institutions of another nation or the rights and privileges acquired by its citizens in their own land. By some authorities private international law rests on this comity, but the better opinion is that it is part of the common law of the land, and hence is obligatory as law.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Civility; good breeding; courtesy; good will.</syn>

<h1>Comma</h1> <Xpage=283>

<hw>Com"ma</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>comma</ets> part of a sentence, comma, Gr. <?/ clause, fr. <?/ to cut off. Cf. <er>Capon</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.</def>