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Consistent

//kənˈsɪstənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

    "The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement."

  2. 2
    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 immoderate Deſire of riſing faſter than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I caſt my ſelf down again into the deepeſt Gulph of human Miſery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be conſiſtent with Life and a State Health of in the World."

  3. 3
    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 judgment."

Adjective
  1. 1
    marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts wordnet
  2. 2
    (sometimes followed by ‘with’) in agreement or consistent or reliable wordnet
  3. 3
    the same throughout in structure or composition wordnet
  4. 4
    capable of being reproduced wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another. in-plural, rare

    "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 conferred on the Earth, of contraries to become conſiſtents?"

  2. 2
    A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments. historical

    "[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 catechumens. Last comes participation in the sacraments (ἁγιασμάτων).""

Etymology

Etymology 1

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)”)).

Etymology 2

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)”)).

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