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English
Etymology
From consist(ent) + -ify.
Verb
consistify (third-person singular simple present consistifies, present participle consistifying, simple past and past participle consistified)
- (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To make consistent.
1989 December 24, The Dread Pirate Roberts, “Re: Destroyer”, in rec.arts.comics (Usenet):Sapir left the series with #34 or 35 to write "bestsellers", only one of which, THE FAR ARENA, had any success. Murphy didn't feel like doing the Destroyer series all by himself, so he hired a bunch of people to ghost-write novels, which he'd then do a final draft on to consistify the style.
1991 August 10, The Film Fan Man, “Re: Empire Strikes Back:LB+CAV?”, in rec.video (Usenet):While there are different widescreen processes, there seems to be no attempt within the industry to strictly define and consistify the terms "widescreen", "letterbox", and "matted", and at least the first two appear to be used interchangeably.
2007 November 15, jayembee, “Re: YOUNG INDIANA JONES/"Old Indy" Question”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films (Usenet):If memory serves, the bookends were done for the ABC episodes, but were missing from the few 2-hour movies that aired on The Family Channel. Maybe Lucas decided to consistify it all by removing the bookends from what eps had 'em.
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