consist

verb

1. (copulative, obsolete)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. (archaic, intransitive)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.”

noun

1. 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.”