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verb

Consist v. i. (past & past part. consisted; pres. part. consisting)

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."

2.

To be composed or made up; followed by of. "The land would consist of plains and valleys."

3.

To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; followed by in. "If their purgation did consist in words." "A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."

4.

To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; formerly used absolutely, now followed by with. "This was a consisting story." "Health consists with temperance alone." "For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist."

5.

To insist; followed by on. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To Consist, Consist of, Consist in. The verb consist is employed chiefly for two purposes, which are marked and distinguished by the prepositions used. When we wish to indicate the parts which unite to compose a thing, we use of; as when we say, "Macaulay's Miscellanies consist chiefly of articles which were first published in the Edinburgh Review." When we wish to indicate the true nature of a thing, or that on which it depends, we use in; as, "There are some artists whose skill consists in a certain manner which they have affected." "Our safety consists in a strict adherence to duty."

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"Consist" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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