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Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.

The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc. [Obs.] Holland.

A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." Shak.

To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

United; conjoined; concurrent. [Archaic]

Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange.

Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor. Shak.

Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.

Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.

in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. Atterbury.…

akes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

f all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character. That consistency of b…

To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.

and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. Atterbury.

A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.

s. Shak. His gifts, his constant ourtship, nothing gained. Dryden. Onward the constant current sweeps. Longfellow.

Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.

The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame.

The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.

ty over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent.