consist

Pluralconsists

Formsconsists, consisting, consisted

1. 1
   nouncountable

   The group of railroad cars and engines that travel together as one unit.

   Like a chain of train cars hooked together to make one long train.

   The dispatcher checked that every car in the consist was properly coupled.

   A long freight consist rolled slowly through the yard at dawn.

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2. 2
   verbarchaicintransitive

   To exist, or to fit together with something else without conflict.

   Like two puzzle pieces that fit together without forcing.

   Such a claim cannot consist with the facts we already know.

   All things do not consist by Christ today, and all the way back to Adam all things have not consisted by Christ.

   2010, Michael O'Buck, Eternal Life: A Question of HonorHere, consist means to exist or hold together through Christ.

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3. 3
   verbobsolete

   To have being, or to exist.

   Why doe they cover with so many lets, one over another, those parts where chiefly consisteth [translating loge] our pleasure and theirs?

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, The EssayesHere, consisteth means exists or is found, so where our pleasure is.

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