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Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise. De Colange.

Con*sign"er (?), n. One who consigns. See Consignor.

Con`sig*nif"i*cant (?), a. Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] Spelman.

Con*sig`ni*fi*ca"tion (?), n. Joint signification. [R.]

Con`sig*nif"i*ca*tive (?), a. Consignificant; jointly significate. [R.]

Con*sig"ni*fy (?), v. t. [Pref. con- + sognify.] To signify or denote in combination with something else.

The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.

Con*sign"ment (?), n. 1. The act of consigning; consignation.

2. (Com.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.

3. (Com.) That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance.

To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce. Burke.

4. The writing by which anything is consigned.

Con*sign"or (? or &?;; 277), n. One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also consigner.]

Con*sil"i*ence (?), n. [con- + salire to leap.] Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.

The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

{ Con`si*mil"i*tude (?), Con`si*mil"i*ty (?) }, n. [Cf. F. consimilitude. See Similitude.] Common resemblance. [Obs.] Aubrey.

Con*sist" (k&obreve;n*s&ibreve;st"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Consisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Consisting.] [L. consistere to stand still or firm; con- + sistere to stand, cause to stand, stare to stand: cf. F. consister. See Stand.] 1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.

He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. i. 17.

2. To be composed or made up; -- followed by of.

The land would consist of plains and valleys. T. Burnet.

3. To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in.

If their purgation did consist in words. Shak.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Luke xii. 15.

4. To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with.

This was a consisting story. Bp. Burnet.

Health consists with temperance alone. Pope.

For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Milton.

5. To insist; -- followed by on. [Obs.] Shak.