2. Verb. (third-person singular of consist) ¹
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Definition of Consists
1. consist [v] - See also: consist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consists
Literary usage of Consists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1864)
"This is also printed by Reid, and consists of twenty-eight leaves. 4. ...
This issued from Reid's press, 1712, and consists of thirty-two leaves. ..."
2. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"It is more important for our present purpose to observe, that this definition
does not determine in what the said relation consists. ..."
3. The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine (1896)
"IN WHAT THE TRUE REVELATION consists. BUT some perhaps will say—Are we to have
no word of God—no revelation ? ' I answer yes. ..."
4. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"That human friendship, which consists in interchange of love, perishes, and that
he alone who loves his friend in God, loseth him never, THIS is it that is ..."
5. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori (1912)
"The exercise which develops life, consists in the repetition, not in the mere
grasp of the idea. When a child has attained this stage, of repeating an ..."
6. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1838)
"... that it is impossible to speak clearly and distinctly of our knowledge, which
all consists in propositions, without considering, first, the nature, use, ..."
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