2. (Chem.) A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There were three kinds of comitia: comitia curiata, or assembly of the patricians, who voted in curiæ; comitia centuriata, or assembly of the whole Roman people, who voted by centuries; and comitia tributa, or assembly of the plebeians according to their division into tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comity of nations (International Law), the courtesy by which nations recognize within their own territory, or in their courts, the peculiar institutions of another nation or the rights and privileges acquired by its citizens in their own land. By some authorities private international law rests on this comity, but the better opinion is that it is part of the common law of the land, and hence is obligatory as law.

Syn. -- Civility; good breeding; courtesy; good will. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R.C.Ch.) The doctrine of the existence of the entire body of Christ in the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by communicating in one kind only. [ 1913 Webster ]

It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reproach is a concomitant to greatness. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The other concomitant of ingratitude is hardheartedness. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To send in or put in; to insert or introduce. Greenhill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To allow to pass in; to admit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glass in the window intromits light, without cold. Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females. [ 1913 Webster ]

These personal comparisons I omit. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect; to pass over. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Law) The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word comitatus is often omitted, and posse alone used. “A whole posse of enthusiasts.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if the passion that rules were the sheriff of the place, and came off with all the posse. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One guilty of sodomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

He gives your Hollander a vomit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black vomit. (Med.) See in the Vocabulary. --
Vomit nut, nux vomica. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fish . . . vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. Jonah ii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ L. vomitorium. ] (Arch.) A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]