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 conseil d'état. [F.] Council of state; privy council.

consensus facit legem. [L.] Consent makes the law.

contra bonos mores. [L.] Against good morals.

contra fortuna no vale arte ninguna. [Sp.] Against fortune no device avails; 'gainst fortune vain ever device and endeavor.

copia verborum. [L.] Fluency of speech.

cordon sanitaire. [F.] Sanitary cordon; line of troops posted to prevent spread of contagion or pestilence.

corps de garde. [F.] Body of men who watch in a guard-room; the guard-room itself.

corpus. [L.] Body. —C. Christi. Body of Christ. —c. delicti. The essential fact of the commission of a crime.

corrigenda. [L.] Corrections to be made.

corruptio optimi pessima. [L.] A corruption of the best is the worst.

couleur de rose. [F.] Color of the rose; hence, beauty.

coup. [F.] Stroke. —c. d'essai. First trial. —c. d'état. Stroke of policy. —c. de maître. Master-stroke. —c. de pied. A kick. —c. de plume. Literary assault. —c. de soleil. Sunstroke.

crede quod habes, et habes. [L.] Believe that you have it, and you have it.

crême de la crême. [F.] The very best.

crescite et multiplicamini. [L.] Increase and multiply. (Motto of Maryland.)

crier famine sur un tas de blé. [F.] To cry famine over a heap of grain.

crimen falsi. [L.] Crime of perjury.

crux criticorum. [L.] Puzzle of critics.

cui bono? [L.] For whose advantage? to what end? of what use?

culpam pœna premit comes. [L.] Punishment presses close upon crime (said idealizingly of the reign of Augustus).

cum grano salis. [L.] With a grain of salt.

cuneus cuneum trudit. [L.] Wedge drives wedge.

curiosa felicitas. [L.] Happy hit (after pains taken).

currente calamo. [L.] With running pen; offhand.

custos morum. [L.] Guardian of manners (or of morals).

d'accord. [F.] Agreed; in tune.

dame d'honneur. [F.] Maid of honor.

dames de la halle. [F.] Market-women.

damnant quod non intelligunt. [L.] They condemn what they do not understand.

damnum absque injuria. [L.] Loss without injury; loss [suffered by one party] without wrong [committed by another].

dapes intemptæ. [L.] Viands unbought (made at home).

dare pondus idonea fumo. [L.] Things fit to give weight to smoke.

das Beste ist gut genug. [G.] The best is good enough.

das heisst (d.h.) [G.] That is.

de bonis non. [L.] Of the goods not (yet administered on).

de bonne grâce. [F.] With good grace; cheerfully.

deceptio visûs. [L.] Optical illusion.

decet verecundum esse adolescentem. [L.] It becomes a youth to be modest.

de die in diem. [L.] From day to day.

de gustibus non est disputandum. [L.] There is no disputing about tastes.

de haute lutte. [F.] By main force; by authority.

de haut en bas. [F.] 1. From top to bottom. 2. Contemptuously; superciliously.

de integro. [L.] Anew; over again from the start.

Dei plena sunt omnia. [L.] All things are full of God.

déjuner à la fourchette. [F.] Breakfast with the fork (i.e., meat breakfast).

delenda est Carthago. [L.] Carthage must be destroyed.

de mal en pis. [F.] From bad to worse.