consistences

Noun

consistence (countable and uncountable, plural consistences)

1. Logical consistency; lack of self-contradiction.
2. The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things.
   • Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year.
3. (archaic) The physical quality which is given by the degree of density, firmness, solidity, and viscosity; consistency.
   • If they [expressed juices] be boiled into the Consistence of a Syrup.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
4. (obsolete) The condition of adhering or standing together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; coherence, existence, firmness, solidity.
   • Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence.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...
5. (obsolete) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
   • The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members.1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC
6. (obsolete) Standing still; quiescence, state of rest.

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