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according; -- usually followed by with or to. Each one pretends that his opinion . . . is consonant to the words there used. Bp. Beveridge. That where much is given shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity. Dr. H. More.

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To change into, or use as, a consonant. "The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position." Peile.

In a consonant, consistent, or congruous manner; agreeably.

The quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent.

Not consonant or agreeing; inconsistent; discordant. -- In*con"so*nant*ly, adv.

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

s made 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…

Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. "Absonant to nature." Quarles.

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.

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

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

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

hich 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.

Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

peech 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.