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CONSIS'TENCE, or Consistency, /.' [. conjijtentia , 
low Lot. 3 State with refpeift to material exigence.—• 
Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it reftofe 
itfelf to the natural conjijlencc .—The con/i/leitcies of bodies 
are very divers: dehfe, rare, tangible, pneumatical, vo¬ 
latile, fixed, determinate, indeterminate, hard, and foft. 
Bacon .-—Degree of denfenefs or rarity.—Let the exprelfed 
juices be boiled into th e.coujijlence of a fyrup. Arbuthnot. 
—Subfiance; form; make.—His friendfhip is of a noble 
make, and a lading confijlcncy. South .—Durable or lading 
ftate.—Meditation will confirm refolutions of good, and 
give them a durable conjijlencc in the foul. Hammond .—• 
Agreement with itfelf, or with any other thing ; con- 
gruity; uniformity.—That confijlcncy of behaviour, where¬ 
by he inflexibly purfues thole mcafures which appear 
the moft juft and equitable. Addijon .—A date of reft, in 
which things capable of growth or decreafe continue for 
lbme time at a Hand, without either; as the growth, 
confftcnce, and return. Chambers. 
CONSISTENT, adj. [ confjlcns , Lat.] Not contradic¬ 
tory; not oppofed : 
On their own axis as the planets run, 
Yet make at once their circle round the fun; 
So two confijleht motions a£t the foul, 
And one regards itfelf, and one the whole. Pope. 
Firm; not fluid.—Peftilential miafms infinuate into the 
humoral and conjiflent parts of the body. Harvey. 
CONSISTENTLY, adv. Without contradiction ; 
agreeably.—The Phoenicians are of this character, and 
the poet deferibes them conjijlcnt.ly with it : they are 
proud, idle, and effeminate. Broome. 
CONSISTO'RIAL, adj. Relating to the ecclcfiaftical 
court.—An official, or chancellor, has the fame conjijlo- 
rial audience with the bifliop himfelf. that deputes him. 
Ayliffe. 
CON'SISTORY, f. [_conJiJlorium , I,at.] A place of 
iuftice ; a tribunal.—Chrift himfelf, in that great con- 
JiJlory, lhall deign to ftep down from his throne. South .— 
The aflembly of cardinals in Rome.—A late prelate, of 
remarkable zeal for the church, were religions to be 
tried by lives, would have lived down the pope and the 
whole conjijlory. Atterbury. —Any folemn aflembly : 
At-Jove’s affent, the deities around, 
In folemn date the conjijlory crown’d. Pope. 
Place of refidence: 
My other felf, my counfel’s conjijlory, my oracle, 
I, as a child, will go by thy direction. Shakefpcarc. 
CON'SISTORY,/”. in the ecclefiadical law, denotes a 
council-houfe of ecclefiadical pefons, or place of juf- 
tice in the fpiritual court; a feffion or aflembly of pre¬ 
lates. Every archbifivop and bifliop of every diocefe 
hath a confiffory court, held before his chancellor, or 
commiffary, in his cathedral church, or other convenient 
place of his diocefe, for ecclefiadical caufes. The biffiop’s 
chancellor is the judge of this court, fuppofed to be {kill¬ 
ed in the civil and canon law : and in places of the dio¬ 
cefe, far remote from the bifhop’s confiftory, the bifliop 
appoints a commiflary to judge in all caufes within a 
certain diftridt, and a regifter to enter his decrees, &c. 
2 Rol. Abr. 2S6. From the fentence of this confiftory 
court an appeal lies by virtue of 24 Hen. VIII. c. 12. to 
the archbifhop of each province refpedtively. 
CONSG'CIATE, J'. [from confocio, Lat.] An accom¬ 
plice ; a confederate ; a partner.—'Patridge and Stanhope 
were condemned as confociates in the conlpiracy of Somer* 
fet. Hayward. 
To CONSO'CIATE, v. a. [ confocio , Lat.] To unite; 
to join.—Generally tffe bed outward fhapes are alfo 
the likelieft to be confocidtat wTfh-good inward faculties. 
Wot ton. —To cement; to hold together.—The ancient 
philofophers always brought in a fupernatural principle 
to unite and confociatc the parts of the chaos. Burnet. 
To CONSO'CIATE, v. n. To coalelce ; to unite.—If 
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they cohered, yet by the next conflict with other atoms 
they might be feparated again, without ever confociating 
into the huge condenfe bodies ol planets. Bentley. 
CONSOCIATION, J. Alliance.—There is fuch a 
conj'ocialion of offices between the prince and whom his 
favour breeds, that they may help to fuftain his power, 
as he their knowledge. Ben Jonfon. —Union ; intimacy ; 
companiondiip.—By- lb long and fo various conjbciation 
with a prince, he had now gotten, as it were, two lives 
in his own fortune and greatnefs. Wotton. 
CONSO'LABLE, adj. That which admits comfort. 
To CON'SOLATE, v. a. [ confolor , Lat.]_To comfort; 
to confide ; to focth in mifery. Not much ufld. 
That pitiful rumour may report my flight, 
To confolate thine ear. Sha/ujpcare. 
CONSOLA'TION,/”. [confolatio, Lat.] Comfort; al¬ 
leviation of mifery ; fuch alleviation as is produced by 
partial remedies."—I.et tire righteous perfevere with pa¬ 
tience, fupported with this i confolation , that their labour 
Audi not be in vain. Rogers. 
CONSOLA'TOR,/'[Lat.] A comforter. 
CONSOLATORY, J. A fpeech or writing contain¬ 
ing topics of comfort: 
Confolatorics writ 
With ftudied argument, and much perfuafion fought, 
Lenient of grief and anxious thought. Milton. 
CONSOLATORY, adj. Tending to give comfort. 
To CONSOLE, v. a. [confolor , Lat.] To comfort; to 
cheer ; to free from the fenfe of mifery : 
Others the fyren lifters compafs round, 
And empty heads conj'ole with empty found. Pope. 
CONSOLE,/”. [Fr.] in architecture, is an ornament 
cut upon the key of an arch, having a projeCture or jet¬ 
ting, and occafionally ferving to lupport fmall cornices, 
buds, and bales. 
CONSOLER,/”. One that gives comfort.'—Pride once 
more appears upon the dage,- as the great conjolcr of the 
miferies of man. Comment, on Pope. 
CONSO'LIDA, / in botany. See Ajuco, Bellis, 
Delphinium, Symphytum. 
CONSOLI'DANT, adj. That which has the quality 
of uniting wounds. 
To CONSOLIDATE, v. a. [ corfolider, F r. folidus, Lat. ] 
To form into a compact and folid body ; to harden ; to 
unite into a folid mafs.—The effett of lpirits in dopping 
hemorrhages, and conjblidating the fibres, is well known 
to chirurgeons. Arbuthnot. —To combine or unite two 
parliamentary bills into one. 
To CONSOLID ATE, v. n. To grow firm, hard, or 
folid.—In hurts and ulcers in the head, drynefs maketh 
them more apt to conj'olidatc. Bacon. 
CONSOLIDATION, J. The a£I of uniting into a 
folid mafs.'—The confolidation of the marble, and ot the 
done, did not fall out at random. Woodiuard. —1 he an¬ 
nexing of one bill in parliament to another. 
CONSOLIDATION, in law, is the uniting of two 
benefices into one. 37 Hen. VIII. c. 21. which union is 
to be by the affent of the ordinary, patron, and incumbent, 
and to be of fmall churches lying near together. This 
word.is taken from the civil law, where it dignifies pro¬ 
perly an uniting of thepoflellion, occupancy, or profit, of 
lands, See. with the property. 
CONSOLIDATI VE, adj. That which has the qua¬ 
lity of healing wounds. 
CON'SONANCE, or Consonancy,/! \_confonancc, Fr. 
conjonans, Lat.] Accord. In mufic, it is commonly ufed 
in the fame fenfe with concord, viz. for the union or agree¬ 
ment of two founds produced at the fame time, the one 
grave, the other acute, which is compounded together 
by Inch a proportion of each, as proves agreeable to the 
ear. An unifon is the firft confonance, an eighth is the 
fecond, a fifth is the third; and then follow the fourth, 
with the third and fixtlis,. major and minor.—The two 
