Part 2337

<h1>Contagiousness</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*ta"gious*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Quality of being contagious.</def>

<h1>Contagium</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*ta"gi*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>Contagion; contagious matter.</def> "<i>Contagium</i> of measles."

<i>Tyndall.</i>

<h1>Contain</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*tain"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Contained</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p.pr. & vb.n.</tt> <er>Containing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>contenen</ets>, <ets>conteinen</ets>, F. <ets>contenir</ets>, fr. L. <ets>continere</ets>, <ets>-tentum</ets>; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>tenere</ets> to hold. See <er>Tenable</er>, and cf. <er>Countenance</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.</def>

<blockquote>Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not <b>contain</b> thee; how much less this house! <i>2 Chron. vi. 18.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>When that this body did <b>contain</b> a spirit. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>What thy stores <b>contain</b> bring forth. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; <as>as, a bushel <ex>contains</ex> four pecks</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.</def> <mark>[Obs., exept as used reflexively.]</mark>

<blockquote>The king's person <b>contains</b> the unruly people from evil occasions. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Fear not, my lord: we can <b>contain</b> ourselves. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Contain</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*tain"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.</def>

<blockquote>But if they can not <b>contain</b>, let them marry. <i>1 Cor. vii. 9.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Containable</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*tain"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being contained or comprised.</def>

<i>Boyle.</i>

<h1>Containant</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*tain"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A container.</def>

<h1>Container</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*tain"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, contains.</def>

<h1>Containment</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*tain"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which is contained; the extent; the substance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The <b>containment</b> of a rich man's estate. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Contaminable</h1> <Xpage=311>