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Incongruous; inconsistent. "A thing unconsonant.' Hooker.

Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch.

ade from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in En…

Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. Strictly accordant with true morality. Darwin. And now his voice accordant to the string. Coldsmith.

Altisonant.

iving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against. In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs. Holder.

sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.

an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

h follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.

ch entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing. Rush.

To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants. The same sound may be pronounces either breathed, voiced, or whispered. H. Sweet. Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged

The audible friction of voice consonants. H. Sweet.

Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.

One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n.

vents or exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.

times f, and by assimilation becomes col- before l, cor- before r, and con- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r, and w. Before a vowel com- becomes co-; also before h, w, and sometimes before other consonants.

An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne

the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continental method of Greek pronunciation is often called…