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Consist

verb

(past & past part. consisted; pres. part. consisting)

Originate (in). Synonyms: dwell, lie, lie in.

Have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in. "What does love consist in?"

Be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous.

Be composed of. Synonym: comprise. "What does this dish consist of?"

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... on in silence. It seemed to consist of a very few men of the National Guard, whom Santerne had placed under the command of the soldier who had transmitted to him the orders ...

— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... never could aid improvement. Whether the community consist of a single master and a single slave, or of thousands of masters and millions of slaves, slavery necessarily involves a waste of human power; for not only is slave labor less productive than free labor, but ...

— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)

... breakfast, to his office, where he transacts his business affairs, which seem to consist chiefly in lolling in an easy chair with a long cigar between his lips, while he watches his escribano, or clerk, as that functionary makes up accounts and ...

— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman

... exist with one-half of the people free and the other half in a stage of slavery, with one-half of the people with representation in the public affairs and the other half without it. The people does not consist of men alone, but of women as well, and conditions being equal, woman should have the same political rights as man. She should, at least, have those fundamental rights the exercise of which, like that of the right to vote, requires nothing but intelligence ...

— The Woman and the Right to Vote • Rafael Palma

... dealt with by statesmen, must be guided with one hand while the war is being prosecuted with the other. The task is colossal. In no previous war have the British given more striking proof of their inherent quality of doggedness. Greatness, as Confucius said, does not consist in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. The British speak with appalling frankness of their blunders. They are fighting, indeed, for the privilege of making blunders—since out of blunders arise new truths and discoveries not contemplated ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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