Connex
(Con*nex") v. t. [L. connexus, p. p. See Connect.] To connect. Sir M. Hale.
Connexion
(Con*nex"ion) n. [L. connexio: cf. F. connexion.] Connection. See Connection.
Connexive
(Con*nex"ive) a. See Connective.
Conning tower
(Con"ning tow"er) n. The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.
Connivance
(Con*niv"ance) n. [Cf. F. connivence, L. conniventia.]
1. Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent
or coöperation.
2. (Law) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of,
and failure to prevent or oppose it.
Syn. — See Collusion.
Connive
(Con*nive") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Connived (- nivd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Conniving.] [L. connivere
to shut the eyes, connive, fr. con- + (perh.) a word akin to nicere to beckon, nictare to wink.]
1. To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink. [Obs.]
The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.
Spectator.
2. To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a
proceeding, as if not aware of it; — usually followed by at.
To connive at what it does not approve.
Jer. Taylor.
In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and
sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving.
Burke.
The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.
Macaulay.
Connive
(Con*nive"), v. t. To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see. [R. & Obs.] "Divorces
were not connived only, but with eye open allowed." Milton.
Connivency
(Con*niv"en*cy) n. Connivance. [Obs.]
Connivent
(Con*niv"ent) a. [L. connivens, p. pr.]
1. Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. [R.] Milton.
2. (Biol.) Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as,
the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc.
Conniver
(Con*niv"er) n. One who connives.
Connoisseur
(Con`nois*seur") n. [F. connaisseur, formerly connoisseur, fr. connaître to know, fr. L.
cognoscere to become acquainted with; co- + noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know. See Know, amd
cf. Cognizor.] One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art,
particulary of one of the fine arts.
The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows."
Fairholt.
Connoisseurship
(Con`nois*seur"ship) n. State of being a connoisseur.
