Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-SIST', v.i. [L. consisto; con and sisto, to stand; Sp. consistir; It. consistere; Fr. consister.]

1. To stand together; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection. Hence, to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He was before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. i.
2. To stand or be; to lie; to be contained; followed by in; as, the beauty of epistolary writing consists in ease and freedom.
3. To be composed; followed by of; as, a landscape should consist of a variety of scenery. To consist together, to coexist; to have being concurrently. Necessity and election can not consist together in the same act. – Bramhall. To consist with, to agree; to be in accordance with; to be compatible. Health consists with temperance alone. – Pope.