Consigne
(||Con"signe) n. [F.] (Mil.) (a) A countersign; a watchword. (b) One who is orders to keep
within certain limits.
Consignee
(Con`sign*ee") n. [F. consign, p. p. of consigner.] The person to whom goods or other
things are consigned; a factor; — correlative to consignor.
Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and
the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise.
De Colange.
Consigner
(Con*sign"er) n. One who consigns. See Consignor.
Consignificant
(Con`sig*nif"i*cant) a. Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] Spelman.
Consignification
(Con*sig`ni*fi*ca"tion) n. Joint signification. [R.]
Consignificative
(Con`sig*nif"i*ca*tive) a. Consignificant; jointly significate. [R.]
Consignify
(Con*sig"ni*fy) v. t. [Pref. con- + sognify.] To signify or denote in combination with something
else.
The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures.
Horne
Tooke.
Consignment
(Con*sign"ment) n.
1. The act of consigning; consignation.
2. (Com.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as
for care, sale, etc.
3. (Com.) That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one
time or by one conveyance.
To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce.
Burke.
4. The writing by which anything is consigned.
Consignor
(Con*sign"or) n. One who consigns something to another; — opposed to consignee. [Written
also consigner.]
Consilience
(Con*sil"i*ence) n. [con- + salire to leap.] Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.
The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained
from another different class.
Whewell.
Consimilitude
(Con`si*mil"i*tude Con`si*mil"i*ty) , n. [Cf. F. consimilitude. See Similitude.] Common
resemblance. [Obs.] Aubrey.
Consist
(Con*sist") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Consisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Consisting.] [L. consistere to stand
still or firm; con- + sistere to stand, cause to stand, stare to stand: cf. F. consister. See Stand.]
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to
hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.
He is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Col. i. 17.
