Con*sign"or (? or &?;; 277), n. One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also consigner.]
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.
{ Con`si*mil"i*tude (?), Con`si*mil"i*ty (?) }, n. [Cf. F. consimilitude. See Similitude.] Common resemblance. [Obs.] Aubrey.
Con*sist" (k&obreve;n*s&ibreve;st"), 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.