consistent
Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
Adjective
- Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
- The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.
- He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!
- That author [Mr. Boyle] has a particular Eſſay of the Atmoſphere of Conſiſtent Bodies; wherein he ſhews, that all, even ſolid, hard, ponderous, and fix'd Bodies, do exhale or emit Effluvia to a certain space all around...
- Compatible, accordant.
- As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, ſo I could not be content now, but I muſt go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to purſue a raſh and...
- When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accusing you of cruelty at present, because I know it...
- Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that "nudges" our intuitive selves to make choices that are...
Synonyms: conformable compliant congruent commensurate compatible conformant congruous consistent in line in step proportionate uniform
- Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.
- When we ask whether ideas or terms are consistent or inconsistent with each other, the question really is, in what manner the relation presupposed between the ideas qualifies them for being combined as terms of a...
- Part of establishing a foundation for geometry was demonstrating that the axioms were consistent – that they could never lead to contradictions. - 2008, Charles Petzold, “Centuries of Progress”, in The Annotated Turing:...
Origin
Borrowed from Latin cōnsistēntem, present participle of cōnsistō (“to agree with; to continue”), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti (“to be standing up; to be getting up”), from the root *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)). By surface analysis, consist + -ent.
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consistent life ethic consistently consistify equiconsistent nonconsistent paraconsistent photoconsistent selfconsistent self-consistent sparsistent unconsistent
Noun
- Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
- The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from Eaſt to Weſt? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from Weſt to Eaſt? How then can you make theſe motions being...
- A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.
- [F]rom the fourth century onwards, the Eastern Church divided penitents into four classes. […] The consistentes (the last class—συστάντες, consistentes) "stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the...