Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-SOL'I-DA-TED, pp.

Made solid, hard, or compact; united.

CON-SOL'I-DA-TING, ppr.

Making solid; uniting.

CON-SOL-ID-A'TION, n.

1. The act of making or process of becoming solid; the act of forming into a firm compact mass, body or system.
2. The annexing of one bill to another in parliament or legislation.
3. The combining of two benefices in one. – Cowel.
4. The uniting of broken bones or wounded flesh.

CON-SOL'I-DA-TIVE, a.

Tending to consolidate; healing.

CON-SOL'ING, a.

Adapted to console or comfort; as, consoling news.

CON-SOL'ING, ppr.

Comforting; alleviating grief.

CON'SO-NANCE, n. [Fr. from L. consonantia, consonans, from consono, to sound together; con and sono, to sound. See Sound and Tone.]

1. Accord or agreement of sounds. In music, consonance is an accord of sounds which produces an agreeable sensation in the ear, as the third, fifth and eighth. It denotes also the according intervals. When the interval of a consonance is invariable, it is called perfect; but when it may be either major or minor, it is termed imperfect. – Busby.
2. Agreement; accord; congruity; consistency; agreeableness; suitableness; as, the consonance of opinions among judges; the consonance of a ritual to the Scriptures.

CON'SO-NANT, a.

1. Agreeing; according; congruous; consistent; followed generally by to; sometimes by with; as, this rule is consonant to Scripture and reason.
2. In music, composed of consonances; as, consonant intervals.

CON'SO-NANT, n.

A letter, so named because it is considered as being sounded only in connection with a vowel. But some consonants have no sound, even when united with a vowel, and others have a very imperfect sound. The consonants are better called articulations, as they are the names given to the several closings or junctions of the organs of speech, which precede and follow the openings of the organs, with which the vowels are uttered. These closings are perfect, and wholly intercept the voice, as in the syllables ek, ep, et; or imperfect, and admitting some slight sound, as in em, en. Hence some articulations are called mutes, and others, semi-vowels. The consonants begin or end syllables, and their use is to determine the manner of beginning or ending the vocal sounds. These closings or configurations of the organs being various, serve to diversify the syllables, as in uttering ba, da, pa, or ab, ad, ap; and although b and p may be considered as representing no sounds at all, yet they so modify the utterance of ab, ap, or ba, pa, that the slight difference between these articulations may be perceived as far as the human voice can be distinctly heard.

CON'SO-NANT-LY, adv.

Consistently; in agreement.

CON'SO-NANT-NESS, n.

Agreeableness; consistency.

CON'SO-NOUS, a. [L. consonus.]

Agreeing in sound; symphonious.

CON-SO'PI-ATE, v.t.

To lull asleep. [Not used.]

CON-SO-PI-A'TION, n.

A lulling asleep. [Not used.]

CON'SO-PITE, a.

Calm; composed. [Not used.] – More.

CON'SO-PITE, v.t. [L. consopio.]

To compose; to lull to sleep. [Not used.]

CON'SORT, n. [L. consors; con and sors, sort, state, kind.]

1. A companion; a partner; an intimate associate; particularly, a partner of the bed; a wife or husband. He single chose to live, and shunn'd to wed, / Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. – Dryden.
2. An assembly or association of persons, convened for consultation. – Spenser.
3. Union; conjunction; concurrence. – Atterbury.
4. A number of instruments played together; a symphony; a concert. In this sense concert is now used.
5. In navigation, any vessel keeping company with another. Queen consort, the wife of a king, as distinguished from a queen regent, who rules alone, and a queen dowager, the widow of a king.

CON-SORT', v.i.

To associate; to unite in company; to keep company; followed by with. Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee. – Dryden.

CON-SORT', v.t.

1. To join; to marry. With his consorted Eve. – Milton.
2. To unite in company. He begins to consort himself with men. – Locke.
3. To accompany. [Not used.] – Shak.

CON-SORT'A-BLE, a.

Suitable. – Wotton.

CON-SORT'ED, pp.

United in marriage. – Milton.

CON-SORT'ING, ppr.

Uniting in company with; associating.

CON-SOR'TION, n.

Fellowship. [Not used.] – Brown.

CON'SORT-SHIP, n.

Fellowship; partnership. Bp. Hall.

CON'SOUND, n.

The name of several species of plants.