These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Conception, Conception, Conception of Our Lady.
in physiology, the first formation of the embryo of an animal; the first animation of the ovum at the moment when it escapes from the ovarium, passing through the Fallopian tube to the uterus. In mental philosophy: (1) The cognition of classes, as distinguished from individuals; that special
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IMMACULATE, in the Roman Catholic Church , the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was born without the stain of original sin. This doctrine came into favor in the 12th century, when, however, it was opposed by St. Bernard, and it afterward became a subject of vehement controversy between the Scotists, who supported , and the Thomists, who opposed it . In 1708 Clement XI. appointed a festival to be celebrated throughout the Church in honor of the immaculate conception . Since that time it was received in the Roman Church as an opinion, but not as an article of faith till 1854, when the Pope issued a bull which makes the immaculate conception a point of faith.
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IMMACULATE application of abstraction, comparison, and attention which elaborates what logicians call notions or concepts ; the acts of the mind in producing concepts or notions. (2) The notions or concepts so produced; the "general" or " abstract ideas" of Locke; the " abstract general notions" of Hamilton. These are properly expressed by common terms, and constitute the object of study in pure or formal logic. The number of attributes embraced in a concept or notion constitutes its intention, comprehension, or logical content, and this determines its area or sphere of applicability, that is, its extension or logical extent . These two quantities exist in an inverse ratio to one another. The maximum of the extent of a conception or notion is the minimum of the content, and the maximum of the content is the minimum of the extent. On this single maxim pure or formal logic has been based.
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an order of nuns, founded in Portugal in 1484 by Beatrix de Sylva , in honor of the immaculate conception. It was confirmed in 1489 by Pope Innocent VIII . In 1489 Cardinal Ximenes put the nuns under the direction of the Franciscans , and imposed on them the rule of of St. Clara. The order subsequently spread into Italy and France .
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the distinctive speculative opinion, or opinions, of the conceptualists.
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a musical instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, the principle of which is similar to that of the accordion. It is composed of a bellows, with two faces or ends, generally polygonal in shape, on which are placed the various stops or studs, by the action of which air is admitted to the free metallic reeds which produce the sounds . In the English concertina the compass is three octaves and three notes.
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a composition for the display of the qualities of some especial instrument, accom accompanied by others of a similar or dissimilar character. The word is at the present time usually applied to a composition for a solo instrument accompanied by full orchestra, as opposed to a sonata, in which the soloist is unaccompanied by other instruments, or only supported by the pianoforte.
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a marine shell, especially of the Strombus gigas; and , in art, a spiral shell used by the Tritons as a trumpet , and still used by some African people in war. The shells are found in large numbers in West Indies, in Florida , and in Bahamas. The conches are shipped generally to Europe and used for medical purposes, ornaments , etc.
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JOSÉ GUTIERREZ DE LA, a Spanish soldier and statesman , born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1809. He served in the Spanish army and was appointed captain-general of Cuba. In 1862 was made a minister to France, and between 1864-68 served as president in the Spanish senate. He died in 1895. put
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Nicomedes in the 2d century A. D., and used by him for finding two mean proportionals.
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the science of shells. Two well-marked stages in its development are traceable. At first shells were studied without any reference to the animals of which they constituted the hard Subsequently framework or sekelton. the study took a wider scope, and for the first time became worthy of being called a science, when the animals and their shells were viewed as parts of one common whole. When shells, and they alone, were studied, conchology was a not unsuitable name, except that the termination -ology suggested that the investigation was more scientific than in most cases it really was. When the animals came to be carefully examined , M. de Blainville proposed for this deeper study the name malacozoölogy-i. e., the study of the softer animals-viz., mollusks; this has been since abbreviated into malacology.
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CONCINO, an Italian, minto Louis XIII ister .
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in music, the combination of two or more sounds pleasing to the ear. Concords are the octave, the fifth, third, and sixth. The two first are called perfect, because as concords they are not liable to any alteration by sharps or flats. The two last are called imperfect, as being alterable.
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a city of North Carolina, the county-seat of Cabarrus co. It is on the Southern railroad. There are manufactures of cotton, foundries, and machine shop. The city is the seat of the Jackson Training School and the Scotia Seminary. Pop. (1910) 8,715; (1920) 9,903.
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a city, capital of the State of New Hampshire, and county-seat of Merrimac county; on the Merrimac river and several branches of the Boston and Maine railroad; 75 miles N. W. of Boston. Concord has an abundance of water power supplied by near-by streams, and extensive manufactories of carriages, shoes, twine, electrical apparatus, silverware, leather goods, machine shop products, etc. Near the city are extensive quarries of a fine-grained white granite. There are three National banks and several private banking houses. Public Interests. The city is well laid out with finely shaded streets, is lighted by gas and electricity, and has an extensive waterworks plant. The noteworthy buildings include the State Capitol, a fine building of Concord granite, the City Hall and Court House, the State Prison, State Insane Asylum, and the United States Government buildings . There is an excellent system of public schools, and several private schools, including St. Paul's School for boys. History. Concord was settled by the whites in 1725, on the site of an Indian village, but till 1765 it was called Rumford. It became a city in 1853. It is noted as the place where Hannah Dustin, another woman, and a boy, who had been taken captive by Indians at Haverhill, Mass., killed the 10 Indians, when asleep, with hatchets, and so escaped. Pop. (1910) 21,497; (1920) 22,167.
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