Part 2309

<hw>Con`sig*nif"i*ca*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Consignificant; jointly significate.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Consignify</h1> <Xpage=307>

<hw>Con*sig"ni*fy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>sognify</ets>.]</ety> <def>To signify or denote in combination with something else.</def>

<blockquote>The cipher . . . only serves to connote and <b>consignify</b>, and to change the value or the figures. <i>Horne Tooke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Consignment</h1> <Xpage=307>

<hw>Con*sign"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of consigning; consignation.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Com.)</fld> <def>The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Com.)</fld> <def>That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance.</def>

<blockquote>To increase your <b>consignments</b> of this valuable branch of national commerce. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The writing by which anything is consigned.</def>

<h1>Consignor</h1> <Xpage=307>

<hw>Con*sign"or</hw> <tt>(? &or; <?/; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to <i>consignee</i>. <altsp>[Written also <asp>consigner</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Consilience</h1> <Xpage=307>

<hw>Con*sil"i*ence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>con-</ets> + <ets>salire</ets> to leap.]</ety> <def>Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>consilience</b> of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Consimilitude, Consimility</h1> <Xpage=307>

<hw><hw>Con`si*mil"i*tude</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Con`si*mil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>consimilitude</ets>. See <er>Similitude</er>.]</ety> <def>Common resemblance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Aubrey.</i>

<h1>Consist</h1> <Xpage=307>

<hw>Con*sist"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Consisted</er>; <tt>p.pr. & vb.n.</tt> <er>Consisting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>consistere</ets> to stand still or firm; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>sistere</ets> to stand, cause to stand, <ets>stare</ets> to stand: cf. F. <ets>consister</ets>. See <er>Stand</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>He is before all things, and by him all things <b>consist</b>. <i>Col. i. 17.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be composed or made up; -- followed by <i>of</i>.</def>

<blockquote>The land would <b>consist</b> of plains and valleys. <i>T. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by <i>in</i>.</def>

<blockquote>If their purgation did <b>consist</b> in words. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A man's life <b>consisteth not in the abudance of the things which he possesseth</b>. <i>Luke xii. 15.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To be cosistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by <i>with</i>.</def>

<blockquote>This was a <b>consisting</b> story. <i>Bp. Burnet.</i></blockquote>