COMMODITY (_passim_), advantage and many allied senses: see other volumes of this series. COMPANABLE, "such as be _companable_" (N62,_a_), affable, sociable, companionable. "Frendly to ben and _compaygnable_ at al." _MS. Fairfax 16_. CONFORMED, see Respublica. CONGY, "a little pretty _congy_" (N60,_d_), bow of salutation. CONVERT, "thine eyes to me _convert_" (R238,_c_), turn, move. CONVERTIBLE (M33,_b_), unstedfast, changeable. CONVICT, "_convict_ them" (M19,_a_)--"Mercy shall never be _convict_ of his uncurtess condition" (M34,_a_), conquer, persuade. CONVINCED, "they shall be _convinced_" (R246,_b_), convicted: cf. convict. "Which of you _convinceth_ me of sin?"--_Bible_, Auth. Vers. (1611), _John_ viii. 46. COPED, (_a_) "Christ's _coped_ curse" (M36,_a_); in original _coppyde_: cf. _copie_, _copy_ = abundance, plenty (Trevisa, i. 301), and _copped_, _coppyd_ = rising to a point, heaped-up as a measure; hence "Christ's _copious_, abundant, overflowing malediction." "This Spayne ... hath grete _copy_, and plente of castelles."--_Trevisa_, i. 301. (_b_) "he is so _copped_" (R213,_a_), apparently a variant of _coppet_ = saucy, impudent, overbearing. COPY, "change our _copy_" (R202,_b_), manner. CORROMPT, "Is should be _corrompt_ therefore" (R256,_b_); punished is meant, but the usual sense is "corrupted." COUCH, "I will _couch_ you all up" (R216,_b_), conceal, hide away, put in safe keeping. "In the seler of Juppiter ther ben _couched_ two tunnes."--Chaucer, _Boethius_, p. 35.