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Disagree from (for with), and adverse from (for to), seem to have resulted from the superstition against averse and different to.

2. After verbs.

I content you by submitting: I content myself with saying.

The moon consists of green cheese: virtue consists in being good. Consist of gives a material, consist in a definition. Mr. Balfour's 'elegant variation' (see Airs and Graces) is certainly wrong, though nominalists and realists will perhaps differ about which should have been used in both sentences,