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rality: farther, a thing beautiful of itself, may, with relation toother things, produce the strongest sense of incongruity. Con-gruity and propriety are commonly reckoned synonymous terms;but they are distinguishable; and the precise meaning of eachmaybe ascertained. Congruity is the genus of which proprietyis a species; for we call nothing propriety, but that congruity orsuitableness which ought to subsist between sensible beings andtheir thoughts, words, and actions. See Phoprikty.

Congruity, in geometry, is applied to figures, lines, &c.which being laid upon each other, exactly agree in all their parts,as having the very same dimensions.

CONG-TCHiN, a town of China, of the third rank, in theprovince of Quang-si, 20 mile3 N. E. of Ping-lo.

CONG-TCHOUHA, a town of Asia, in Thibet, 45 miles S,of Tchontori.

CONI, a territory of Piedmont.

CONICHTHYODONTES or PLECTRONITiE, in natu-ral history, the fossile teeth of fishes, so called from their resem-bling a cock’s spur. They are of an oblong conic figure, broadat tlie base, narrow at the point, and a little crooked; and fromone-tenth of an inch to two inches long. They are often foundin England, in strata of stone or clay, with part of the jaw-bones;but it is not certain to what fish they belong.

CONICS, or CONIC SECTIONS, that part of the mathe-matics which considers the cone, and the curves arising from it,sections.

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