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noun

Consort n.

1.

One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband. "He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, Well pleased to want a consort of his bed." "The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere." "The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort."

2.

(Naut.) A ship keeping company with another.

3.

Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." "Working in consort." "Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different."

4.

An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination. (Obs.) "In one consort' there sat Cruel revenge and rancorous despite, Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate." "Lord, place me in thy consort."

5.

Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. (Obs.) "To make a sad consort'; Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs."

Prince consort, the husband of a queen regnant.

Queen consort, the wife of a king, as distinguished from a queen regnant, who rules alone, and a queen dowager, the window of a king.

verb

Consort v. t.

1.

To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate. "He with his consorted Eve." "For all that pleasing is to living ears Was there consorted in one harmony." "He begins to consort himself with men."

2.

To attend; to accompany. (Obs.) "Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence."

Consort v. i. (past & past part. consorted; pres. part. consorting) To unite or to keep company; to associate; used with with. "Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee?"

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"Consort" Quotes from Famous Books

... too independent by half," Borrow makes his father say, after painting a filial portrait of the old man, "with locks of silver gray which set off so nobly his fine bold but benevolent face, his faithful consort at his side, and his trusty dog at his feet." Nor did the youth please himself. He was languid again, tired even of the Welsh poet, Ab Gwilym. He was anxious about his father, who was low spirited over his elder son's absence in London as a painter, ...

— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas

... called She of the Left-hand, as opposed to the Christos, He of the Right-hand; the Man-woman; Prouneikos; Matrix; Paradise; Eden; Achamoth; the Virgin; Barbelo; Daughter of Light; Merciful Mother; Consort of the Masculine One; Revelant of the Perfect Mysteries; Perfect Mercy; Revelant of the Mysteries of the Whole Magnitude; Hidden Mother; She who knows the Mysteries of the Elect; the Holy Dove, who has ...

— Simon Magus • George Robert Stow Mead

... moneys in the Bank of Amsterdam, and I know not what; with all which Sophie, corresponding in double and triple mystery, has her own terrors and sorrows, trying to keep it down. And now, in the depth of the year, the poor old Mother suddenly dies. [13th November, 1726: Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea, Consort of George I. (i. 386),—where also some of her concluding Letters ("edited" as if by the Nightmares) can be read, but next to no sense made of them.] Burnt out in this manner, she collapses into ashes and long rest; closing so her nameless tragedy of thirty years' continuance:—what ...

— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume V. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... aggravating because it had reached his ears that the Princess Yasmini intended to ride veiled in the procession, and to sit beside her husband in the durbar hall unveiled. He was therefore going to be obliged to recognize her more or less officially as consort of the reigning prince. Simla did not realize that, of course; but it was too late to wire for different instructions. He had a grim foreboding that he himself would catch it later on when the facts leaked out, as they ...

— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy

... to Mrs. Gibson, who received him with her usual easy cordiality, just as she would have received one of her husband's clerks, or the Prime Minister; or the Prince Consort himself, for that matter. But she looked up into his face with such frank unabashed admiration that I ...

— The Martian • George Du Maurier

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