the chief of: P P 121 the chief of the day; 239 the chief of their three weeks.

closet: N A 196 dressing-closets; 183 hot closets.

collect = gather: M P 56 ‘I collect that Sotherton is an old place’; 315 ‘I was very much pleased with what I collected to have been your behaviour on the occasion’.

come = become: S S 126 ‘How came they acquainted?’

come across (cf. cross): S S 317 The possibility … came across her.

come into = fall in with: E 223 ‘You may guess how readily he came into my wishes’.

come to = come round, relent: S S 272 [Miss Steele] ‘I never saw Lucy in such a rage … but now she is quite come to’.

comforts, in the plural now restricted to ‘creature’ comforts, was more widely used; M P 201 Her feelings probably were not acute …; but her comforts (in married life) might not be less on that account.

common: N A 161 the common drawing-room—explained 165 the one in common use. E 69 the common sitting-room.

in company with: P P 145 ‘When I am in company with him’.

complacency: P P 35 Their brother … was the only one of the party whom she could regard with any complacency; 95 a smile of such sweet complacency.

complicate adj.: P 215.

composed: E 93 They had not been long seated and composed.

comprehend is much commoner than now in the sense of comprise and the like: E 20 Highbury … comprehended many such (acquaintance). M P 404 (Henry Crawford) had been useful to more than his first plan had comprehended.

conceive: E 275 ‘Mr. Perry … does not conceive it would be … likely to be useful’ (hardly so used now except with can and cannot).

condition: M P 417 She would hesitate, she would teaze, she would condition.

confined, in phrases where we should rather use narrow, limited, or the like; E 145 their confined society in Surry; 172 ‘It is a great pity that their circumstances should be so confined!’

connect, &c., in the sense of connection by marriage, well connected, &c., but more frequently and more widely used than now; M P 452 (Mary Crawford) who … would have been so eligible a connection. E 64 ‘Men of family would not be very fond of connecting themselves with a girl of such obscurity’. P P 198 ‘the want of connection could not be so great an evil to my friend as to me’.

conscious and consciousness are similar to, but not identical with, the modern self-conscious &c. M P 404 letting Susan have her share of entertainment, with the indulgence, now and then, of a look or hint for the better informed and conscious Fanny; 245 With something of consciousness he shook his head. E 6 Sorrow came—a gentle sorrow—but not at all in the shape of any disagreeable consciousness— where the context suggests that consciousness means consciousness of her own faults. Cf. E 451.

The modern sense occurs, e.g. E 112 consciousness of the weather.