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Definition of Consistent

1. Adjective. (sometimes followed by 'with') in agreement or consistent or reliable. "I have decided that the course of conduct which I am following is consistent with my sense of responsibility as president in time of war"

2. Adjective. Capable of being reproduced. "Astonishingly reproducible results can be obtained"

3. Adjective. Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts. "A coherent argument"

4. Adjective. The same throughout in structure or composition. "Bituminous coal is often treated as a consistent and homogeneous product"

Definition of Consistent

1. a. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.

Definition of Consistent

1. Adjective. of a regularly occurring, dependable nature ¹

2. Adjective. (logic) Of a set of statements, such that no contradiction logically follows from them. ¹

3. Noun. (plural rare) Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another. ¹

4. Noun. In the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but could not be admitted to receive the holy sacrament. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Consistent

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consistent

consigns consilience consiliences consilient consilium abeundi consist consist in consistant consisted consisted in

consistence consistences consistencies consistency consistency principle consistent (current term) consistently consistents consisteth consisting

consisting in consistorial consistorian consistories consistory consists consists in consociate consociated consociates

Literary usage of Consistent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1827)
"1801. \-*~ WILDE HOLTZ- MEYER. [ *818 ] Some sense to be given tp every part of a will, if consistent with other parts : the legal sense, if possible. ..."

2. The Works of Joseph Bellamy by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1850)
"THERE IS NO consistent MEDIUM BETWEEN ANCIENT APOSTOLIC CHRISTIANITY AND INFIDELITY. IF the judicious, candid reader will now stop, look back, and review, ..."

3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"99- (gg) That they be consistent.—Lastly, customs must be consistent with each other: one custom cannot be set up in opposition to another. ..."

4. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1816)
"... perfectly consistent with the Institution of Christ and the Nature of the Sign. AS some turbulent spirits in the present age have raised fierce disputes ..."

5. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1890)
"He saw, or thought he saw, that the ' new way of ideas ' had only to be made consistent with itself, and the oppressive shadow must vanish. ..."

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