"consistence" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kənˈsɪst(ə)ns/ [Received-Pronunciation], /kənˈsɪstəns/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-consistence.wav Forms: consistences [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French. Compare French consistance. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|-}} Middle French, {{cog|fr|consistance}} French consistance Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} consistence (countable and uncountable, plural consistences)
  1. Logical consistency; lack of self-contradiction. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-consistence-en-noun-ZAZasbHn Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 21 3 18 14 24 5
  2. The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (for non-physical things): cohérence [feminine] (French), comhsheasmhacht [feminine] (Irish)
    Sense id: en-consistence-en-noun-AJJytZAq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 22 4 20 15 26 6 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 8 21 7 19 14 25 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 21 3 18 14 24 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 23 2 20 16 27 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 23 1 20 15 28 6 Disambiguation of 'for non-physical things': 6 40 4 14 12 18 8
  3. (archaic) The physical quality which is given by the degree of density, firmness, solidity, and viscosity; consistency. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Translations (physical quality): консистенция (konsistencija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), плътност (plǎtnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), consistance [feminine] (French), comhsheasmhacht [feminine] (Irish), konsystencja [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-consistence-en-noun-goLz5znc Disambiguation of 'physical quality': 4 1 85 4 1 3 1
  4. (obsolete) The condition of adhering or standing together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; coherence, existence, firmness, solidity. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-consistence-en-noun-2Wg4BMKB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 22 4 20 15 26 6 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 8 21 7 19 14 25 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 21 3 18 14 24 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 23 2 20 16 27 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 23 1 20 15 28 6
  5. (obsolete) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-consistence-en-noun-nbpY6n9J Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 22 4 20 15 26 6 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 8 21 7 19 14 25 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 21 3 18 14 24 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 23 2 20 16 27 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 23 1 20 15 28 6
  6. (obsolete) Standing still; quiescence, state of rest. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-consistence-en-noun-j4nfisqA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 22 4 20 15 26 6 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 8 21 7 19 14 25 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 21 3 18 14 24 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 23 2 20 16 27 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 23 1 20 15 28 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 10 19 5 19 14 26 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 9 21 5 18 14 26 7 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 9 20 4 18 14 26 8 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 12 20 5 18 14 26 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 10 19 5 19 13 27 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 11 19 5 19 13 24 9
  7. (obsolete except poetic) A substance which adheres together. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-consistence-en-noun-pkJDf6GM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: inconsistence Related terms: consist, consistency, consistent

Inflected forms

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          "text": "If they [expressed juices] be boiled into the Consistence of a Syrup.",
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          "text": "VVe are as vvater, vveak, and of no conſiſtence, alvvayes deſcending, abiding in no certain place, unleſeſ vvhere vvee are detained vvith violence: […]",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "Logical consistency; lack of self-contradiction."
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        {
          "text": "Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "This composer’s musical work is of extraordinary consistence.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things."
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        {
          "ref": "1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "If they [expressed juices] be boiled into the Consistence of a Syrup.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →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, […]",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The physical quality which is given by the degree of density, firmness, solidity, and viscosity; consistency."
      ],
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        "(archaic) The physical quality which is given by the degree of density, firmness, solidity, and viscosity; consistency."
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "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": "Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence.",
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        },
        {
          "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": "VVe are as vvater, vveak, and of no conſiſtence, alvvayes deſcending, abiding in no certain place, unleſeſ vvhere vvee are detained vvith violence: […]",
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          "ref": "1830, The Veterinarian:",
          "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.",
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        "(obsolete) The condition of adhering or standing together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; coherence, existence, firmness, solidity."
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          "ref": "1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members.",
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        "That which stands together as a united whole; a combination."
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        "Standing still; quiescence, state of rest."
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        {
          "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:",
          "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.",
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        "A substance which adheres together."
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        "(obsolete except poetic) A substance which adheres together."
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "konsistencija",
      "sense": "physical quality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "консистенция"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "plǎtnost",
      "sense": "physical quality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "плътност"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "physical quality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "consistance"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "physical quality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "comhsheasmhacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "physical quality",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "konsystencja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "for non-physical things",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cohérence"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "for non-physical things",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "comhsheasmhacht"
    }
  ],
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}

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