Consonantly

adv. [f. CONSONANT a. + -LY².] In consonance, agreement, accord, or harmony; agreeably, harmoniously, consistently. Const. to, with.

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1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 829/2. All y^e olde holy doctours … write … so consonantly togither against al kindes of scismes and heresies.

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1647. Digges, Unlawf. Taking Arms, 135. There are who answer … not altogether consonantly to what Saint Paul aimed at.

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1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer., II. VII. 308. Consonantly to the same ideas, punishment followed the trespass.

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1791–1823. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1866), 269/1. Harmonious ranged, and consonantly just.

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1876. G. Meredith, Beauch. Career, I. xix. 310. It chimed too consonantly with a feeling of Beauchamp’s.

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