1 a usually small number of persons considered as a unit a consort of doctors attended the case Synonyms of 1 consort array, band, batch, battery, body, boodle, bunch, cluster, clutch, consort, constellation, crop, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, parcel, party, passel Words Related to 1 consort assembly, collective, congregation, gathering, muster, organization; circle, clan, clique, coterie, fellowship, gang, ring, round, set; faction, guild (also gild), order, school, sect; brigade, crew ...
1 American literature (in American literature: Lyric fictionists) 2  relationship to Santa Fe (in Santa Fe (New Mexico, United States))  The University of Adelaide - Death Comes for the Archbishop. Death Comes for the Archbishop, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1927. The novel is based on the lives of Bishop Jean Baptiste LâAmy and his vicar Father Joseph Machebeut and is considered emblematic of the authorâs moral and spiritual concerns.
The clergyman's horse, stumbling with a dull blunt sound among the graves, was cropping the grass; at once deriving orthodox consolation from the dead parishioners, and enforcing last Sunday's text that this was what all flesh came to; a lean ass who had sought to expound it also, without being qualified and ordained, was pricking his ears in an empty pound hard by, and looking with hungry eyes upon his priestly neighbour.