Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
Shak.
3. (Feudal Law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition. Blackstone.
4. The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.
The Conquest (Eng. Hist.), the subjugation of England by William of Normandy in 1066.
Syn. -- Victory; triumph; mastery; reduction; subjugation; subjection.
Con`san*guin"e*al (?), a. Of the same blood; related by birth. Sir T. Browne.
Con*san"guined (?), a. Of kin blood; related. [R.] Johnson.
Con`san*guin"e*ous (?), a. [L. conguineus; con- + sanguis blood: cf. F. consanguin. See Sanquine.] Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor. Shak.
Con`san*guin"i*ty (?), n. [L. consanguinitas: cf. F. consanguintitÚ.] The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.
Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity.
Prescott.
Con*sar`ci*na"tion (?), n. [L. consarcinare, -natum, to patch together.] A patching together; patchwork. [Obs.] Bailey.
Con"science (?), n. [F. conscience, fr. L. conscientia, fr. consciens, p. pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire to know. See Science.] 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. [Obs.]
The sweetest cordial we receive, at last,
Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
Denham.
2. The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Shak.
As science means knowledge, conscience etymologically means self-knowledge . . . But the English word implies a moral standard of action in the mind as well as a consciousness of our own actions. . . . Conscience is the reason, employed about questions of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation.
Whewell.