Chapter Conclave to Conscience of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Conge d'Elire (Norman - French, leave to elect). A royal warrant given to the dean and chapter of a diocese to elect the person nominated by the Crown to their vacant see.

Congleton Bears The men of Congleton. It is said that the Congleton parish clerk sold the church Bible to buy a bear.

Congregationalists Those Protestant Dissenters who maintain that each congregation is an independent community, and has a right to make its own laws and choose its own minister. They rose in the time of Queen Elizabeth.

Congreve Rockets (1808.) So called from Sir William Congreve, eldest son of Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Congreve (1772-1828).

Congreves A predecessor of Lucifer matches. The splints were first dipped in sulphur, and then tipped with the chlorate of potash paste, in which gum was substituted for sugar, and there was added a small quantity of sulphide of antimony. The match was ignited by being drawn through a fold of sand-paper with pressure. These matches, being dangerous, were prohibited in France and Germany. (See Prometheans;Lucifers )

Conjugal What pertains to conjuges (yoke-fellows). In ancient times a yoke (jugum) was put on a man and woman by way of marriage ceremony, and the two were said to be yoked together by marriage.

Conjuring Cap I must put on my conjuring cap- i.e. your question requires deliberate thought, and I must reflect on it. Eric XIV., King of Sweden, was a great admirer of magic, and had an “enchanted cap” made, either to keep his head warm or for mystification. He pretended to have power over the elements; and when a storm arose, his subjects used to say “The king has got on his conjuring cap.”

Connecticut U.S. America, is the Indian Quin - neh - tuk - qut, meaning “land of the long tidal river.”

Connubialis de Mulcibre fecit Apellem Love turned a blacksmith into a great artist. Said of Quentin Matsys, the blacksmith of Antwerp, who was in love with an artist's daughter. The father scorned the alliance, and said he should not be accepted unless he made himself a worthy artist. This did Matsys and won his bride. The sentence may be seen still on the monument of Quentin Matsys outside Antwerp cathedral.

Conqueror The Conqueror.
   Alexander the Great. The conqueror of the world. ( B.C. 356, 336-323.)
   Alfonso of Portugal. (1094, 1137-1185.)
   Aurungzebe the Great. Alemgir. The most powerful of the great Moguls. (1618, 1659-1707.)
   James I. of Aragon. (1206, 1213-1276.)
   Othman or Osman I. Founder of the Turkish power. (1259, 1299-1326.)
   Francisco Pizarro. Conquistador. So called because he conquered Peru. (1475-1541.)
   William, Duke of Normandy. So called because he obtained England by conquest. (1027, 1066-1087.)

Conqueror's Nose (A). A prominent straight nose, rising at the bridge. Charlemagne had such a nose, so had Henry the Fowler (Heinrich I. of Germany), Rudolf I. of Germany; Friedrich I. of Hohenzollern, famous for reducing to order his unruly barons by blowing up their castles (1382-1440); our own “Iron Duke,” Bismarck, the iron Chancellor of Prussia, etc.

Conquest (The). The accession of William I. to the crown of England. So called because his right depended on his conquest of Harold, the reigning king. (1066.)

Conrad (Lord). Afterwards called Lara, the corsair. A proud, ascetic, but successful captain. Hearing that the Sultan Seyd was about to attack the pirates, Conrad assumed the disguise of a dervish and entered the palace, while his crew set fire to the sultan's fleet. The trick being discovered, Conrad was taken prisoner, but was released by Gulnare, the sultan's favourite concubine, whom he had rescued from the flaming palace. Gulnare escaped with the corsair to the Pirates' Isle, and when Conrad found