ForCaſſius is a-weary of the World: / Hated by one he loues, brau'd by his Brother, / Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obſeru'd, / Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, andcon'd by roate / To caſt into my Teeth.
At length, himself unsettling, he the pond / Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look / Upon the muddy water, which heconned, / As if he had been reading in a book
1795,Edmund Burke,Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament:
I did not come into parliament tocon my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel.
He read old almanacs at the book-stalls on the quays, and he began to frequent anothercafé, where more newspapers were taken and his post-prandialdemi-tasse cost him a penny extra, and where he used tocon the tattered sheets for curious anecdotes, freaks of nature, and strange coincidences.
1893,Stanley J. Weyman, “II. The King of Navarre”, inA Gentleman of France:
Du Mornay exchanged a few words with me, to assure himself that I understood what I had to do, and then, with many kind expressions, which I did not fail to treasure up andcon over in the times that were coming, hastened downstairs after his master.
1963, D'Arcy Niland,Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories:
The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge andconned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.
My heart is breaking for my sister And thecon that she called "love"
2021 February 23, Rafael Behr, “Brexit is a machine to generate perpetual grievance. It's doing its job perfectly”, inThe Guardian[3]:
Leavers will be attracted to that story because it spares them the discomfort of admitting that they voted for acon, and then made a prime minister of the con artist.
2017 July 17, Martin Lukacs, “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals”, inThe Guardian[4]:
Neoliberalism hasconned us into fighting climate change as individuals [title]
2025 June 25, Yating Yang, “Taiwan man soaks feet in dry ice for 10 hours to con insurance firms, causing amputation”, inscmp.com[5]:
Taiwan man soaks feet in dry ice for 10 hours tocon insurance firms, causing amputation[…] A man in Taiwan shocked the internet after attempting to defraud five insurance companies by immersing his feet in a bucket of dry ice for 10 hours, resulting in the amputation of both feet.
1995 September 4, Lindsay Crawford, “Re: Intersection”, inrec.arts.sf.fandom[6] (Usenet),message-ID <9509042250393785@emerald.com>:
I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus anycon flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog, thank you.
Survey has shown that 70% of males arehappy cornered involuntarily. Also, nearly 40% of correspondents states that they would nothappy cornering people, even when the one who ishappy cornered is resisting.
2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar,Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Chapter 2: Númerus:
Cumu to é custión de proporciós, sin que sirva de argumentu por nun fel falta, poemus vel que en a misma Europa hai Estaus Soberariuscon menus territoriu que os tres lugaris nossus, cumu:
As everything is a matter of proportions, without its presence being an argument, we can see that even in Europe there are Sovereign Stateswith less territory than our three places, such as:
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “caun”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
When followed by the definite article,con may be combined with the article to produce the following combined forms (marking these combined forms in writing is old-fashioned, and very rarely used apart fromcol andcoi; however, it has always been very common in speech, and it still is):
1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel,Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur[9], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita,→OCLC,page10:
Delantre de ti io mi orgolio abato I mi corason lo razgocon kevranto¹)
I suppress my pride before you, and my heart tears itwith despair.
Hà Quang Phùng (6 September 2012), “Archived copy”, inTìm hiểu về ngữ pháp tiếng Mường (Thim hiếu wuê ngử pháp thiểng Mường) [Understanding Muong grammar][10] (FlashPaper; overall work in Vietnamese and Muong), Thanh Sơn–Phú Thọ Province Continuing Education Center, archived fromthe original on19 September 2016
c.800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.12c38
2021 July 21, Juan Garzon, “Los mejores celulares Android de 2021”, inCNN en Español[11]:
Este celular tiene una hermosa pantalla, un cuerpo que es resistente al agua (IP68), su procesador Snapdragon 888 (o Exynos 2100),con 12 GB o 16 GB de RAM, ofrece una experiencia muy fluida y es el primer celular de la serie Galaxy S que es compatiblecon un S Pen, el stylus de Samsung.
1983, Homer, translated by Phan Thị Miến,Ô-đi-xê [The Odyssey]:
Tê-lê-mác,con ! Đừng làm rầy mẹ, mẹ còn muốn thử thách cha ở tại nhà này. Thế nào rồi mẹ con cũng sẽ nhận ra, chắc chắn như vậy. Hiện giờ cha còn bẩn thỉu, áo quần rách rưới, nên mẹ con khinh cha, chưa nói : “Đích thị là chàng rồi !”. […]
Telemachus, myson! Don’t you bother your mother, she still wants to put me to trials at this home. She will recognize me eventually, there is no doubt about that. I still look like a rascal, in torn clothes, that is why your mother still doubts me, she is yet to say: “It was definitely you this whole time!”. […]
(rare, chiefly in translations of ancient texts)son
Sense (4) is chiefly used in Central and Southern Vietnam, perhaps extensively to North Central Vietnam. In Northern Vietnam,cháu is used instead. Some Northerners, however, do usecon, especially when talking to Southern children on Southern TV shows.
Even thoughcon người is used, it is generally thought of as a noun phrase on its own, andngười does not require a classifier because it is itself a classifier (compareJapanese人(nin)).Mộtcon người "a person" does not sound dehumanizing, but even literary, whilemột người sounds casual enough.
The phrasecon người is popularly employed as a philosophical trope or device to bring up discussions about what it means to be human as opposed to being an animal, even though it is not really semantically convincing given the fact that humans are, zoologically, animals, and there are non-animal things going with this classifier.
