adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a consistent manner.

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  1.  In accordance or consistency with; compatibly.

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1708.  H. Dodwell, Mortality Hum. Souls, 100. This I … could [not] say, consistently to my own Principles.

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1744.  Harris, Three Treat., Wks. (1841), 82. The true idea of right conduct … is not merely to live consistently, but it is to live consistently with nature.

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1802.  Mar. Edgeworth, Moral T. (1816), I. xiii. 105. He could not, consistently with his principles, assist in evading the laws.

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1884.  Gladstone, in Standard, 29 Feb., 2/7. Consistently with the aims we have in view.

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  2.  With consistency; without incongruity.

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1706.  Clarke, Nat. & Rev. Relig. (1716), 16. This can no way be defended consistently, but must of necessity recur to downright Atheism.

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1713.  Berkeley, Hylas & Phil., III. Wks. I. 327. To act consistently, you must either admit Matter or reject Spirit.

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1744.  [see 1].

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1869.  Howson, Metaph. St. Paul, ii. 79. The whole allegory is strictly and consistently allegorical.

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  3.  Uniformly, with persistent uniformity.

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1861.  Bright, Sp. India, 19 March. Why was it that the originals were so consistently withheld?

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