consistence
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
consistence
- (archaic) The physical quality which is given by the degree of firmness, solidity, density, and viscosity; consistency.
- Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup.
- The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things.
- Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year.
- This composer's musical work is of extraordinary consistence.
- (obsolete) Standing still; quiescence; state of rest.
- (obsolete) The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence.
- We are as water, weak, and of no consistence.
- 1830, The Veterinarian
- When it was brought to the school it discharged from its right nostril, a whitish, viscid, clotty matter, which, although of little consistence, strongly adhered to the sides of the nostril.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- Logical consistency; lack of self-contradiction.
- (obsolete) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
- 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation:
- The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members.
- French: consistance
- French: cohérence
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