Consort (Hastings' Dictionary)

To c. with is to associato with, cast in ones lot with {ritn together, sors, .^or/tm lot); Ac H'' 'Some of them believed, and c"' with Paul and Silas' (a good idiomatic tr. of the Gr. TrpoutXn- puu, fr. Trpis to, nXijpoi lot, though the form is pa.ss., lit. ' were allotted to').

Up to the end of the 18th cent, a concert of music was, by a mistaken associa- • It is used of the consecration of the priftt only (except Exk 432fl the altar), and the most probable explanation is that the things to 1)0 offered were pttC into the priest's ha?id«. a synibolio act bv which he was installed or consecrated. 8oine(esp. Vatke, Allli-'xt. Throt. i>. 273 f., and Wellhausen, ProL p. 130) think that the priest's hand was filled with money as earnest ' (Bcotcb arlU).

&ee I'aiisn and Livitis. 476 CONSTANT CONTENTMENT tion with this word, spelt ' consort,' though it comes through Fr. concert, It. concerto from Lat. concertare to contend (or, as Skeat decidedly prefers, conserere to unite). Cf. Mom. and Jul. III. L 48 — • Tybalt, — Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo, — Mer. — Consort I what 1 doat thou make us minstrelflT' In Sir 32° AV 1611 we have ' A consort of musick in a banquet of wine * {<rvyKpifia /xovaiKii-v), but mod. edd. spell ' concert.'

See Music. J. Hastings. CONSTANT 1 Ch 28' ' if he be c. to do my com- mandments' (p!r;-DK=if he he Jirm). Cf. Shaks. Jul. Cces. III. i. 72— * For I was constant Cimber should be banish'd, Antl constant do remain to keep him so.' Constantly : Pr 21^ ' the man that heareth speak- eth c, i.e. 'confidently,' not 'frequently' (nsj, KV ' unch.illenged,' RVra ' so as to endiue ) ; Ac 12" ' she c.

attirmed that it was even so ' {5it<rxvpltrro, RV ' contidently affirmed ') ; Tit 3* ' these things I will that thou affirm c' (Jia^t/SaioDcrfloi, RV ' affirm confidently'). Cf. the Collect for St. John Baptist's Day, ' Aft«r his example c. speak the truth,' i.e. firmly, consistently. J. Hastings.