Syn. -- Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united.
Con*cur"rent, n. 1. One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents . . . time, industry, and faculties.
Dr. H. More.
2. One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
Menander . . . had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him.
Holland.
3. (Chron.) One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.
Con*cur"rent*ly, adv. With concurrence; unitedly.
Con*cur"rent*ness, n. The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.
Con*cur"ring (?), a. Agreeing.
Concurring figure (Geom.), one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which corresponds with another in all its parts.
Con*cuss" (?), v. t. [L. concussus, p. p. of concutere. See Concussion.] 1. To shake or agitate. "Concussed with uncertainty." Daniel.
2. (Law) To force (a person) to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce. Wharton.
Con`cus*sa"tion (?), n. A violent shock or agitation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Con*cus"sion (?), n. [L. concussio, fr. concutere, concussum, to shake violenty; con- + quatere to shake. See Cashier, Quash.] 1. A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies.
It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air.
Bacon.
2. (Med.) A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain.
3. (Civil Law) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.
Then concussion, rapine, pilleries,
Their catalogue of accusations fill.
Daniel.
Concussion fuse (Mil.), one that is ignited by the concussion of the shell when it strikes.
Syn. -- See Shock.
Con*cus"sive (?), a. Having the power or quality of shaking or agitating. Johnson.
Cond (?), v. t. [OE. conduen, condien, F. conduire to conduct, fr. L. conducere. See Conduct, and cf. Con (Naut.), Conn. Cun.] (Naut.) To con, as a ship.
Con*demn" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Condemned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning (? or &?;).] [L. condemnare; con- + damnare to condemn: cf. F. condamner. See Damn.] 1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it!
Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.
Shak.
Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
Job xxxiv. 17.
2. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.
Matt. xii. 42.
3. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
Driven out from bliss, condemned
In this abhorred deep to utter woe.
Milton.
To each his sufferings; all are men,
Condemned alike to groan.
Gray.
And they shall condemn him to death.
Matt. xx. 18.
The thief condemned, in law already dead.
Pope.
No flocks that range the valley free,
To slaughter I condemn.
Goldsmith.