consistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪst(ə)ns/
ipa: /kənˈsɪstəns/
Forms: form: consistences
Etymology: From Middle French. Compare French consistance.
Senses: glosses: Logical consistency; lack of self-contradiction.
examples: text: Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year.
text: This composer’s musical work is of extraordinary consistence.
glosses: The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things.
examples: text: If they [expressed juices] be boiled into the Consistence of a Syrup.
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: All these things, and many others too numerous to mention, were well mixed together in the famous pot and boiled for four hours, until the consistence of a mess, or poss, was obtained, […]
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The physical quality which is given by the degree of density, firmness, solidity, and viscosity; consistency.
examples: text: Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: VVe are as vvater, vveak, and of no conſiſtence, alvvayes deſcending, abiding in no certain place, unleſeſ vvhere vvee are detained vvith violence: […]
ref: 1650 October (published 1651), Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] Sermon XXVIII. A Funeral Sermon, Preached at the Obsequies of the Right Honorable and Most Vertuous Lady, the Lady Frances Countesse of Carbery: Who Deceased October the 9th 1650. at Her House Golden-grove in Carmarthen-shire.”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 358:
text: 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.
ref: 1830, The Veterinarian:
glosses: The condition of adhering or standing together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; coherence, existence, firmness, solidity.
examples: text: The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members.
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
glosses: Standing still; quiescence, state of rest.
examples: text: Ægyptian ingenuity vvas more unſatisfied, contriving their bodies in ſvveet conſiſtences, to attend the return of their ſouls. But all vvas vanity, feeding the vvinde, and folly.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 78:
qualifier: obsolete except poetic
glosses: A substance which adheres together.
Derived terms: inconsistence
Related terms: consist
consistency
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