consignation 
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The discovery of the provision for the consentient or 
Mtttl at lirtlim ..I ililli-lenl or^ini. "I tin- l.o,l\ l>\ tin H 
3. In fit-off /mi-, tin- depositing in the hands of consilient (kon-sil'i-ent), a. [< L. com-, to- 
il third person of a sum of money about which gether, 4- -nilii-ii(t-)K, the form in comp. of mi- 
there is eitliei u ilispute or a competition. 4. lifn(t-)n, ppr. of satire, leap: see salient. Cf. 
In litui-i/ii-x. I In- ;H-I of junking the sign of the K.JUHI/I ii-illi. agree with.] Agreeing; concur- 
i-ross with oue half of a consecrated oblate or ring: us, "consilient testimony," Hampton Lec- 
host over the other, the first half having been tures, viii. 
previously ilippeil in tin- chalice. This rit* in 
Follllil in tli> Hi. ek ami Syriiu- liturgies of St. JanleH, in 
the f'optir liturgy of St. liasil, in tin- v^torian liturgy of ordlnating agency of the great m-rve renters. 
tli. LpocUat, tO. V fnrlcr, Human Intellect, 41. 
consignatory (kon-sig'na-to-ri), .; pi. consig- consimilar (kon-sim'i-l&r), a. [< L. eon-iimilix 
notaries (-riz). [< con- + signatory.] One who (> It. co/wimite), alike (<' cow-, together, + simi- 
sigus any document jointly with another or fo, ijke), + -ar.- see simitar.] 
others. resemblance. [Rare.] 
consignature (kon-sig'na-tur), n. [< con- + consimilitude (kon-si-mil'i-tud), n. 
Kignatiirt: Cf. i-ontiign.] Complete signature ; gi ml utudt; etc. ; as con- + similitude. 8ee con- 
joint signing or stamping. x.milar.] Resemblance. [Rare.] 
consigne (kou'sin), . [F. (= 8p. consigna = C0 nsimility (kon-si-mil'i-ti), . [< L. consimi- 
It. consegna), orders, instructions, < consigner, ti alike ( 8ee consimilar), + -ity.] Common 
consign, deliver: see <w,,w/.J Mil,!., special resemblance ; similarity. [Rare.] 
order or instruction given to a sentinel ; a watch- Ry wmch mean(i am| the|r <!OM ,. M ,. Wj , , dl8poaiUon , 
word ; a countersign. tnere was very conjunct Mendililp between the two 
consigne (F. pron. kon-se-nya), n. [F., prop, brothers anil him. 
pp. of consigner, confine, put under orders : see Aubrey, in Letters of Eminent Men, II. 511. 
consign, consigne.] A. person commanded to consist (kon-sisf), v. i. [= F. consister = Sp. 
keep within certain bounds, as an officer in the Pg. consistir = It. consistere, < L. consistere, 
army or navy ordered to keep his quarters as a stand together, stop, become hard or solid 
Having common 
[= F. con- 
punishment 
consignee (kon-si-ne'), i. [< consign + -cc 1 . Cf. 
e<msigiit : . ] The person to whom goods or other 
property sent by carrier are consigned or ad- 
dressed ; specifically, one who has the care or 
disposal of goods received upon consignment ; 
a factor. 
consigner (kon-sl'ncr), . Same as consignor. 
consignincarit (kon-sig-mf'i-kant), a. [< con- 
+ significant.] Having the same signification 
or meaning. 
consignificate(kon-sig-nif'i-kat), it. Something 
signified in a secondary way, especially the time 
of a verb. 
consignification (kon-sig"ni-fi-ka'shon), n. [< 
con- + signification.] Joint, signification; con- 
notation. [Rare.] 
As they (verbs] always express something else in their 
original meaning, he [John of Salisbury] calls the addi- 
tional denoting of time by a truly philosophic word, a eon- 
niiinijieation. Uarris, Philol. Inquiries. 
consignificative (kon-sig-nif'i-ka-tiv), a. and 
n. [< cow- + significative.] I. a. Having a like 
signification ; jointly significative. 
H. . That which has the same signification 
or meaning as some other. Worcester. 
consignify (kon-sig'ui-fi), v. i.; pret. and pp. 
consiguificd, ppr. coiisignij'yiiig. [< cow- + sig 
nify.] To signify secondarily: used in oppo- which 
sitlon to connote, which is to name secondarily. 
Thus, a relative noun connotes its correlative ; 
a verb consignifies its time. [Rare.] 
The cypher . . . has no value of itself, and only serves 
. . . to connote and c<tn*i>iti(i>l- 
//or/ir Tuote, Diversions of Purley, i. 9. 
consignment (kon-sin'ment), n. [< consign + 
-ment.] 1. The act of consigning; consigna- 
tion. 2. The act of sending or committing, in 
trust for sale or custody: usually implying con- 
veyance by a carrier, and agency on the part of 
the recipient. 
The merchants who act upon connffntnents. 
Tatter, No. 31. 
3. That which is consigned; a quantity sent or 
delivered, especially to an agent or factor for 
sale: as, Areceivedalargeco.si'<;wef of goods 
fromB. 
Aman Niaz Khan had sent to Meshed for a large eoimiijn- 
inent of tea and sugar, and rolls of cloth. 
O'Doiuman, Merv, xxv. 
4. The writing by which anything is consigned, 
consignor (kou-si'nor or kon-si-nor'), n. [< 
consign + -or.] A person who consigns, or 
makes a consignment, as of goods: one who 
sends, delivers, or despatches goods, etc., to 
another for custody or sale. Also written co- 
signer. 
cohsiliary (kon-sil'i-a-ri), a. (X L. consiliarius, 
agree with, continue, exist, < com-, together, + 
xistere, cause to stand, stand, caus. of stare = 
E. stand: see stand. Cf. assist, desist, exist, in- 
sist, persist, resist.] 1. To stand together; be 
in a fixed or permanent state, as a body com- 
posed of parts in union or connection ; hence, 
to be ; exist ; subsist ; be supported and main- 
tained. 
He 1s before all things, and by him all things consist. 
Col I 17. 
2f. To remain coherent, stable, or fixed. 
It is against the nature of water . . . tueowurtaud stay 
itself. Brereirood, Languages. 
Unstable Judgments that cannot consist in the narrow 
circumference. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 3. 
3. To abide ; rest ; be comprised, contained, 
performed, or expressed : followed by in. 
True happiness 
Consists not .'/< the multitude of friends, 
But in the worth and choice. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ill. 2. 
The whole freedom of Man consists either t Spiritual 
or Civil Liberty. Milton, Free Commonwealth. 
Which Meldritch and Budendorfe, rather Hke enraged 
lions, than men, so bravely enconntred, as if fn them only 
had confuted the victory. 
Copt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 25. 
The perspicuity, the precision, and the simplicity in 
consisting 
Hence 2. State or degree of density or vitt- 
cosity: as, the consistency of cream, or of honey. 
Let the expressed Juices be boiled into the contittence 
of a syrup. Aruuthimt, AllmenU. 
These Burmese wells are sunk to a depth of alM/ut sixty 
feet, and yield an oil of the cunsistencti of tr. > 
\ X VI. 253. 
3. A dense or viscous substance. [Rare.] 
Quench 'il In a l>oggy Syrtis, neither sem, 
Nor good dry land : nigh foumlcr'd on he fares. 
Treading the crude contittence. Milton, P. L., (I. Ml. 
4. Nature, constitution, or character. [Rare.] 
Ills friendship U of a noble make and a lasting conn*- 
tency. South, Sermons. 
5. Harmonious connection, as of the parts of 
a system or of conduct, or of related things or 
principles ; agreement or harmony of all parts 
of a complex thing among themselves, or of the 
same thing with itself at different times, or of 
one thing with another or others; congruity; 
uniformity : as, the consistency of laws, regula- 
tions, or judicial decisions : consistency of reli- 
gious life ; consistency of behavior or of charac- 
ter. [Now only in the form consistency.] 
It Is preposterous to look for consistency between abso- 
lute moral truth and the defective characters and usages 
of our existing state ! //. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 51. 
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. 
. . . Speak what you think now in hard words, and to- 
morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, 
though it contradict every thing you said to-day. 
Kinerion, Self-reliance. 
6. Permanence; persistence; stability. [Rare 
or obsolete.] 
Meditation will confirm resolutions of good, and give 
them a durable consistence in the soul. Mammoml. 
7t. That which stands together as a united 
whole ; a combination. 
The Church of Ood, as meaning the whole consistence of 
Orders and Meiulwrs. Miiton, Reformation in Eng., i. 
consistent (kon-sis'tent), a. [= F. consistant 
i- eloquence proper to scientific writing, 
"adler's Law of Population. 
4. To be composed ; be made up : followed by 
of. 
Humanity particular consistethof the same parts whereof 
minconsisteth. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, II. 183. 
He [Henry I.] made the Court to consist of three Parts, 
the Nobility, the Clergy, and the Common People. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 40. 
The land would consist of plains, and valleys, and moun- 
tains. T. Burnet, Theory of the Earth. 
Of the whole sum of human life, no small part is that 
which consists of & man's relations to his country, and his 
feelings concerning it. Gladstone. Might of Right, p. 201. 
5. To be compatible, consistent, or harmoni- 
ous; be in accordance; harmonize; accord: 
now followed by with, formerly also used abso- 
lutely. 
Either opinion will consist well enough irith religion. 
Sir T. Browne, Rellgio Medici, i. 38. 
It may consist icith any degree of mortification to pray 
for the taking away of the cross, upon condition it may 
eonsitt with God's glory and our ghostly profit 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 89. 
Health contitti with temperance alone. 
Pope, Essay on Man, iv. 81. 
Novelty was not necessarily synonymous with barbarism, 
and might consist even mth elegance. 
f. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 293. 
To consist together, to coexist. 
Necessity and election cannot consist together in the same 
act Abp. Bramhall, Against Hobbes. 
suitable for counsel, counseling, < consiliitin, consistence, consistency (kon-sis'tens, -ten- 
counsel: see counsel.] Pertaining to or of the 8 ,) ) . ; p l. consistences, consistencies '(-ten-sex, 
nature of counsel. -siz). [= F. eonsistanee = Pr. Sp. Pg. consistencia 
= It. cotisistenza, consistenzia, < L. as if "consis- 
tentia, < con#isten(t-)s, ppr. of consistere, stand 
together: see consist, consistent.] 1. Literally, 
a standing together ; firm union, as of the parts 
of a rigid body ; hence, the relation of the parts 
The presbyters were joined in the ordering church af- 
fairs . by way of assistance In acts delilwrative and 
awsiliary. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 17. 
consilience (kon-sil'i-ens), H. [< consilient: 
see -ence.] A coming together ; coincidence ; 
concurrence. 
Another character, whirh ]'< exemplified only In the 
greatest theories, is the rtni*ilienee of inductions where 
many ami widely dill'erent lines of experienee spring to- 
m-ther in one theory which explains them all. 
{/uartcrla Xcc., LXVIII. 233. 
or elements of a body with reference to the 
firmness of their connection ; physical consti- 
tution. 
The contiiteneiet of bodies are divers ; dense, rare, tan- 
gible, pneumatical, volatile, Sc. Bacim, Nat. Hist., 8839. 
5 F 
of a body, distinguished from the fluid. 
The sand, contained within the shell, Incoming solid 
and consistent. 
Woodward, Essay towards a Nat Hist, of the Earth. 
2. Standing together or in agreement ; com- 
patible; congruous; uniform; not contradic- 
tory or opposed : as. two opinions or schemes 
are consistent; a law is consistent with justice 
and humanity. 
On their own axis as the planeU run, 
Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; 
So two consistent motions act the soul ; 
And one regards itself, and one the whole. 
1'ope, Essay on Man, iii. 315. 
We have a linn faith that our interests are mutually 
consistent ; that if you prosper, we shall prosper ; if you 
suffer, we shall suffer. Ecerett, Orations, I. 196. 
3. Characterized by consistency or harmony ; 
not self -opposed or self -contradictory : as, a 
consistent life. 
Their heroes and villains are as consistent in all their 
sayings and doings as the cardinal virtues and the deadly 
sins in an allegory. Macattlay, Mitford's Hist. Greece. 
4 1 . Composed ; made up. 
The consistories of Zurick and Bazil are wholly consis- 
tent of laymen. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 150. 
consistentes (kon-sis-ten'tez), H. pi. [LL. (tr. 
Gr. awiardfievoi or awta-ijrec), those standing 
with (the faithful), pi. of L. consistency, ppr. 
of consistere, stand together: see consistent.] In 
the penitential system of the early church, es- 
pecially in the Eastern church during the sec- 
ond half of the third and the whole of the fourth 
century, penitents occupying the fourth or high- 
est penitential Station. They were allowed to remain 
throughout the eucharistic service and take their station 
with the faithful alwve the amlm, but not to offer obla- 
tions or be admitted to communion. Also called bystand- 
< rx. See ;.,'/nVc/i/, n. 
consistently (kon-sis'tent-li), adf. In a consis- 
tent manner ; with consistency or congruency ; 
uniformly : as, to command confidence, a man 
must act consistently. 
There has been but One amongst the sons of men who 
has said and done consistently ; who said, "I come to do 
Thy will, O God," and without delay or hindrance did it. 
J. II. Xeirman, Parochial Sermons, I. 175. 
consisting* (kon-sis'ting), p. a. [Ppr. of consist, 
r.] 1. rlaving consistence. 
Flame doth not mingle with flame, as air doth with air, 
or water with water, hut only remaineth contiguous; as 
it cometh to pass betwixt consisting liodies. 
Bacon, Nat Hist, i 31. 
2. Consistent : followed by 
Y..VI could not help Ik-stowing more than is confiding 
H-itli the fortune of a private man, or irith the will of any 
but an Alexander. DryJen, Ded. of Fable*. 
