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A countersign; a watchword.

The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor. Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise. De Colange.

One who consigns. See Consignor.

Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] Spelman.

Joint signification. [R.]

Consignificant; jointly significate. [R.]

To signify or denote in combination with something else. The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.

The act of consigning; consignation.

One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also consigner.]

Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

Common resemblance. [Obs.] Aubrey.

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. Col. i. 17.

The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. Jer. Taylor. The same form, substa…

Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey.

In a consistent manner.

Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.

Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.

cil summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. Milton.

An associate; an accomplice. [Archaic] "Wicked consociates." Bp. Hall.

Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy. A friendly consociation with your kindred elements. Warburton.