CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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Conservative Judaism in CommonParlance
- definition Jews who keep some of the requirements of the Mosaic law but allow for adaptation of other requirements (as some of the dietary laws) to fit modern circumstances
- definition beliefs and practices of Conservative Jews
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Conservative Party in CommonParlance
- definition a political party (especially in Great Britain or Australia) that believes in the importance of a capitalist economy with private ownership rather than state control
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Consolida ambigua in CommonParlance
- definition commonly cultivated larkspur of southern Europe having unbranched spikelike racemes of blue or sometimes purplish or pinkish flowers; sometime placed in genus Delphinium
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Constance in CommonParlance
- definition the council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church
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Constantinople in CommonParlance
- definition the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches
- definition the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
- definition the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic
- definition the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed
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Constitutional Convention in CommonParlance
- definition the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787
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Constitutional Union Party in CommonParlance
- definition a former political party in the United States; formed in 1859 by former Whigs who hoped to preserve the Union
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Constrictor constrictor in CommonParlance
- definition very large boa of tropical America and West Indies
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Continental in CommonParlance
- definition of or pertaining to or typical of Europe
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Continental Army in CommonParlance
- definition the American army during the American Revolution
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Continental Congress in CommonParlance
- definition the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation
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Contopus sordidulus in CommonParlance
- definition small flycatcher of western North America
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Contopus virens in CommonParlance
- definition small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
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Contra in CommonParlance
- definition a member of the guerrilla force that opposed a left-wing government in Nicaragua
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Conuropsis carolinensis in CommonParlance
- definition extinct parakeet whose range extended far into the United States
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Convallaria majalis in CommonParlance
- definition low-growing perennial plant having usually two large oblong lanceolate leaves and a raceme of small fragrant nodding bell-shaped flowers followed by scarlet berries
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Converso in CommonParlance
- definition (medieval Spain and Portugal) a Jew or Moor who professed to convert to Christianity in order to avoid persecution or expulsion
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Convolvulus arvensis in CommonParlance
- definition weakly climbing European perennial with white or pink flowers; naturalized in North America and an invasive weed
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Convolvulus scammonia in CommonParlance
- definition twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin
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Convolvulus sepium in CommonParlance
- definition common Eurasian and American wild climber with pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Convolvulus
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Conyza canadensis in CommonParlance
- definition common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron
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Cooley's anaemia in CommonParlance
- definition a fatal form of homozygous thalassemia (inherited from both parents) in which there is no hemoglobin; skeletal deformations; heart and spleen and liver enlarged
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Cooley's anemia in CommonParlance
- definition a fatal form of homozygous thalassemia (inherited from both parents) in which there is no hemoglobin; skeletal deformations; heart and spleen and liver enlarged
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Cooper's hawk in CommonParlance
- definition bluish-grey North American hawk having a darting flight
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Copehan in CommonParlance
- definition a group of Penutian languages spoken to the west of the Sacramento river