consist

verb
/kənˈsɪst//ˈkɒn.sɪst/UK

Etymology

From Middle French consister, from Latin consistō (“stand together, stop, become hard or solid, agree with, continue, exist”), from com- (“together”) + sistō (“to cause to stand, stand”).

  1. derived from consistō — “stand together, stop, become hard or solid, agree with, continue, exist
  2. derived from consister

Definitions

  1. To be.

    • Why doe they cover with so many lets, one over another, those parts where chiefly consisteth [translating loge] our pleasure and theirs?
    • District number twenty-five (25) shall consist the counties of Tompkins, Seneca and Yates.
  2. To exist or be compatible.

    • [Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties.
    • First, because it is granted by all divines, that hypothetical necessity, or necessity upon a supposition, may consist with liberty.
    • All things do not consist by Christ today, and all the way back to Adam all things have not consisted by Christ.
  3. A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that…

    A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.

    • The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at consist. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at consist. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at consist

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA