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without difficulty, v. g. unlefs either liquify'd by Fire, or
wet with V    later; and that two  poliih'dT Pieces of Marble,
which as often as they touch cohere, are yet very hardly
prefs'd Io clofely and join'd fo aptly as to cohere. See REa-
PELLING Force; fee alfo COHESION, DILATATION, sCe.
COMPROMISE, an Arbitration, or a Treaty, or Con-
tra&, whereby two contending Parties eflablifh one or more
Arbitrators, to judge of and terminate their Differences in
an amicable way. See ARBITRATOR.
The regular way of appointing a CompromiWe, is by a
Writing, exFreffing the Names of the Arbitrators, the Power
of chufing a Super-Arbitrator in cafe of need, a Time limited
for the Arbitrage, and a Penalty on the Party who does not
abide by the Decifion.
By the Civil Law, a Slave cannot make a Compromife
without the Leave of his Matter, nor a Pupil without the
Authority of his Guardian, or a Wife without that of her
Husband. So a Slave, a deaf or dumb Man, a Minor, and
the Perfon who is a Party in the Caufe, are incapable of be-
ing chofen Arbitrators in a Compromife.
The Occafions on which a Comntromife is not allow'd of,
are Reflitutions, Marriage Caufes, Criminal Affairs, Quef-
tions of State; and, generally, any thing wherein the publick
Intereff is more concern'd than that of private Perfons.
In our Law, Compromife is not of fo much extent: Wlef
defines it the Faculty, or Power of pronouncing Sentence be-
tween Perfons at Controverfy, given to Arbitrators by the
Parties mutual private Confent, without publick Authority.
The Word is alfo ufed in Beneficiary Matters; where it
fignifies an Ad, whereby thofe who have the Right of Elec-
tion, transfer it to one or more Perfons, to eled a Perfon ca-
pable of the Office or Dignity.
Thus, we have feen Members of Parliament eleled
by Compromife; when the Eleaors, not being able to agree
among themselves, give the Power of eledting, at leaUt of
nominating, to two Perfons; obliging them by Oath, or
otherwife, to chufe fuch as they think the moil capable, and
bef} difpos'd.
COMPTING, or COUNTING-IIoqre, an Office in the
Houfhold, under the Direaion of the Lord Steward; fo
called, becaufe the Accompts for all Expences of the King's
Houfhold are there taken daily, by the Lord Steward, Comp-
troller, Coffirer, Mailer of the Houfhold, the two Clerks of
the Green-Cloth, and the two Clerks Comptrollers. See
HOuS1oLD.
They alfo make Provifion for the Houfhold, and make
Payments, and Orders for the good Government thereof
In the Compting-Houfe is the Board of Green-Cloth. See
GaR EEN-Cloth.
COMPULSOR, an Offlcer under the Roman Emperors,
difpatch'd from Court into the Provinces, to force the Pay-
ments of Taxes, Fic. not pay'd within the time prefcrib'd.
Thefe were charg'd with fo many Exaffions, under Co-
lour of their Office, that Honorius cafhier'd 'em by a Law
in 41z.
The Laws of the VifT'goths mention Military Compulfors;
which were Officers among the Goths, whofe Bufinefs was
to oblige the tardy Soldiers to go into the Fight, to run to
an Attack, ec.
Calian mentions a kind of Monaplick Compulfors, whofe
Bufinefs was to declare the Hours of Canonical Office, and
to take care the Monks went to Church at thofe Hours.
The Word is Latin, form'd of the Verb Compellere, to
oblige, confirain.
COMPUNCTION, in Theology, an inward Grief in the
Mind, for having offended God. See REPENTANCE.
The Romanzfis own their Confeffion infignificant, unlefs
attended with Compunaion, or pricking of Heart. See
CONFESSION.
Among Spiritualiffs, Compuntlion carries a more extenfive
Signification; and implies not only a Grief for having offend-
&l God, but alfo a pious Senfation of Grief, Sorrow, and
Difpleafure on other Motives. Thus, the Miferies of Life,
the Danger of being lofr in the World, the Blindnefs of the
Wicked, T   are to pious People Motives of Compuntlion.
The Word comes from pingere, cmptungere, to prick.
COMPURGATOR, in Law, one that by Oath juflifies
or clears another's Innocence. See LAw, and OATTI.
COMPUTATION, or sipptation, the manner of ac-
counting and eflimating Time, Weights, Meafures, and Mo-
nies. See TIME, W\EIGHT, MEASURE, MONEY, beC
The Word is fometimes alfo ufed among Mathematicians
in the like Senfe as Calculation. See CALCULATION.
COMPUTATION is particularly ufed in Law, in refpecl of
the true Account or Conflruaion of Time, fo underfilood, as
that neither Party do wrong to the other, nor the Determi-
nation of Time be left at large; fo as to be taken otherwise
than according to the Judgment and Intention of Law.
If Indentures of Demife be ingroffed, bearing Date II
ATay i679, to have and to hold the Land in S. for three
lears from henceforth; and the Indentures be deliver'd the
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be accounted from the Day of the Del
the Date. And if the Indenture be de.
Clock in the' Afternoon, the faid 4th
fhall end the third Day of 7u7ne in t
Law, in fuch Computation, rejeaing a
Lions of the Day, on account of that x
the Mother of Contention.-In Wri
Stat. 2 7 Hen. VIII. to be inroll'd withir
Writings have Date, the fix Months lha
the Date, and not from the Delivery
it lhall be accounted from the Delivery
If a Deed be Jhew'd to a Court at J
remain in Court (by Judgment of La
which it is lhew'd : for all the Term ie
Law. Coke Ibid.    If a Church be a
does not prefent within fix Months, the
cefs may collate his Chaplain: But the
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COMPUTO, a Writ, thus called from its EIecd, whiA
is to compel a Bailiff; Chamberlain, or Receiver to yield i
Accompts.
The fame Iyes for Executors of Executors; and again
the Guardian in Soccage, for Wafle made in the Minority h
the Heir.
CONARION, or CONOIDES, called alfo Glanduila 9Pj
nealis, is a fmall Gland, about the bignefs of a Pea, placed
in the upper Part of that Hole in the third Ventricle of thN
Brain, called the Anuss; and ty'd by fome Fibres to thi
Nates. See GLAND, BRAIN, ANUS, and NATES.
It is compofed of the fame Subilance as the reft of thy
Brain ; and has this peculiar, that it is tingle ; whereas al
the other Parts are double : Hence, fDes Cartes takes occa
fion to fuppofe it the immediate Place, or Seat of the Soul
See PINEAL Gland, SENSORY, S5eC.
CONATUS, Endeavour, a Term frequently ufed in Phi
lofophical and Mathematical Writers; and fometimes al6
called Nifus.
The Conatus feems to be the fame, with terpect to A
tion, that a Point is with refpea to a Line ; at leafl, t
two have this in common, that as the Point is inceptive, a
the Line, or the Term from which it commences; fo is thi
beginning of all Motion call'd the Conatus. Add, that as ij
Mathematical Demonfirations, the Extenfion of the Point
conceiv'd as if it were nothing at all; fo, in the Conatus a
Motion, there is no regard to the Time wherein, or th
length which it advances. See Laiws of NATURE.
Hence, fome define a Conatus to be a quantity of Mb
tion, not capable of being exprefs'd by any time or length.-
Accordingly, all Motion tends precifely the fame way whert
in the moveable is aded on, or determined by the moving
Power. See MOTION.
CONCATENATION, in Philofophy, the connedting o
Things, in manner of a Chain, Catena.
The Concatenation of Second Caufes, is an Eff~ec of Pro
vidence. See SECOND CAUSE, PROVIDENCE, WC.
CONCAVE, is applied to the inner Surface of a holloi
Body; efpecially if it be circular. See CONVEX.
Concave is particularly underilood of Mirrors and Lenfe
Concave Lenfes, are either concave on both Sides, called
Concavo-Concave ; or concave on one fide, and Plane on the
other, called Plano-Concave; or Concave on one fide, and
convex on the other, call'd Concavo-Convex, or Convexo-Com
cave, as the one or the other Surface is a Portion of a leA
Sphere.
The Properties of all concave Lenfes are, that the Rayi
of Light, in pafling thro' them are defleded, or made to
cede from one another; as in convex Lenfes they are infe>
ted towards each other; and that the more, as the Concavit6
or Convexity are Pcrtions of lefs Circles. See LENS.
Hence, parallel Rays, as thofe of the Sun, by paffing thrt
a concave Lens, become diverging; diverging Rays are made
to diverge the more, and converging Rays either made to
converge lefs, or become parallel, or go out diverging. See
RAY.
Hence, Objeds view'd thro' concave Lenfes, appear ditni-
nifh'd; and the more fo, as they are Portions of lefs Spheres i
and this in oblique, as welt as in dire& Rays. See REFR cAc
TION.
Concave Mirrors have the contrary Eff~ec to Lenfes: They
reflect the Rays which fall on 'e m, fo, as to make themri
approach more to, or recede lefs from each other than before;
and that the more as the Concavity is greater, or the Spherel
whereof they are Segments, lefs. See MIRROR.
Hence, Concave Mirrors magnify Objeas prefented to
them ; and. that in a greater proportion, as they are PortiOns
of greater Spheres. See REFLECTION, MIcaRoscoaa, ;
Hence alfo, Concavb Mirrors have the EffeAl of burning
Objeds, when plac'd in their Focus. See BURNING Glas3 m
CONCEALERS, in Law, fuch as find out conceal'1
Lands, i. e. Lands kept privily from the King, by colmtfOf
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