a. rare. [f. as prec. + -IC, after vocalic. In mod.F. consonnantique.] Of the nature or character of a consonant.
1863. Aufrecht, in Chambers Encycl., V. 575/2. Consonantic bases, or, of the vocalic, those which end in u (v), a vowel of a decided consonantic quality, are most apt to preserve the inflections in their unaltered form.
