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d to fluid. [Obs.] If . . . you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body. Boyle.

A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.

With constancy; steadily; continually; perseveringly; without cessation; uniformly. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Acts. xii. 15.

Of the same kind or nature; having the same substance or essence; coessential. Christ Jesus . . . coeternal and consubstantial with the Father and with the Holy Ghost. Foxe.

The doctrine of consubstantiation.

One who believes in consubstantiation. Barrow.

Participation of the same nature; coexistence in the same substance. "His [the Son's] . . . consubstantiality with the Father." Hammend.

In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.

To cause to unite, or to regard as united, in one common substance or nature. [R.] His soul must be consubstantiated with reason. Jer. Taylor.

An identity or union of substance.

The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. [Eng.]

One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. R. Owen.

The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.

Resistance; opposition; a stand against. Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard. Longfellow.

Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling. Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease.

A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.

The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.