consonant

noun

1. A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
2. A letter representing the sound of a consonant.

   “Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.”

   ““Tell me, has right anything to do with the law?” I asked. “You have used the wrong initial consonant,” he smiled in answer. “Might?” I queried; and he nodded his head.”

adj

1. Consistent, harmonious, compatible, or in agreement.

   “Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.”

   “Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.”

   “This essential right of the courts to be free of intimidation and coercion was held to be consonant with a recognition that freedom of the press must be allowed in the broadest scope compatible with the supremacy of order.”

2. Having the same sound.

   “1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae consonant words and syllables”

3. Harmonizing together; accordant.

   “consonant tones; consonant chords”

4. Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.

   “No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.”