consistencen.

/kənˈsɪstəns/

Etymology: apparently < French consistence (16th cent. Paré), now consistance = Provençal consistencia , Spanish consistencia , Italian consistenza (in Florio); probably going back to a medieval Latin *consistentia ; < consistent- present participle of consistĕre : see consist v. and -ence suffix.

†1.

a. Standing or remaining still, quiescence; state of rest. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement

standinga1398

stay1525

stand1584

consistence1598

still-stand1600

station1603

standstilla1646

dead lock1781

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Consistenza, a standing fast or a consistence, a setling.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Consistence, a consistence, or being; a residence, or setling.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §290 Water..being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore it self to the Natural consistence.

1641 Bp. J. Hall Serm. White-hall Aug. 8 2 I finde a change, of Motion..whether by consistence, or retrogradation, Sun, stand thou still in Gibeon..The shadow went back ten degrees.

†b. spec. The ‘standing still’ of a living being, when it has attained its full growth, and before it begins to decay. Obsolete. Cf. consistent adj. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > prime > [noun]

flowering agec1400

pridec1475

blooming-time1495

flower?1507

season?1507

day1546

flourishing years?1555

golden years1559

vigour1563

consistent age1574

prime1574

May moon1576

acme1579

Maya1586

flourish1597

May month1600

consistencea1613

May morna1616

constant age1620

high daya1625

blouth1643

flourishing age1737

heyday1751

floruit1843

bloom-hour1850

blossom-time1860

the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity

full eldOE

agec1275

douthc1275

full agec1390

maturitya1475

years?1532

just age1541

just years1541

consistencea1613

grown years1645

legal age1658

adultness1663

adultagea1670

muttonhood1841

adulthood1850

a1613 T. Overbury Obseruations Xvii. Prouinces (1626) 5 If they were at their Consistence.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) We distinguish three States or Stages of a Tree; its Growth, Consistence, and Return.

1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Consistentia, an old term..applied to the arrival of a living body at its fulness and perfection.]

†2. Continuance, endurance; continuing state.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time

lenghc888

longnessOE

enduringc1374

length1388

continuing1398

long lasting?c1400

perdurability?a1425

perseverance?a1425

permanence1440

perdurablenessc1450

perdurationc1450

continuation1469

diuturnity?a1475

prolixityc1500

endurancea1513

sustention1515

continuance1552

long standinga1568

longitude1596

long-lastingness1598

sempiternity1599

consistence1606

persistence1621

long-livedness1652

abidingness1654

productedness1664

imperdibility1713

longiturnity1727

endurableness1795

lengthiness1829

endurability1837

perenniality1841

longevity1842

protractedness1855

enduringnessa1867

1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 42 b That [Mytralis] was Olimpias name, during the consistance of her infancy.

†3. A settled condition of affairs. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun] > stable condition

consistence1661

consistencya1676

even keel1737

1661 J. Taylor Let. 16 Nov. in J. Evelyn Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 135 I hope I have brought my affairs almost to a consistence.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. App. 34/1 Boston was no sooner come to some Consistence.., but the People found themselves plunged into a sad Nonplus.

a. Material coherence and permanence of form; solidity or firmness sufficient to retain its form.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun]

thicknessc1000

consistency1594

consistence1626

constancy1794

the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > substantial or solid qualities

substancec1425

consistence1626

consistency1709

nature1820

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §328 Putrefaction; which ever dissolveth the Consistence of the Body.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 50 Ice is only water congealed..whereby it acquireth..a consistence or determination of its diffluency.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 50 After what shape the muscles..might hang in their full consistences.

1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind ii. iii The nerve itself has a very small degree of consistence.

1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 542 It forms cubic crystals without consistence, and resembling a jelly.

figurative.1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 48 Boyled up to a full consistence of contumacy and impenitency.a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 372 Often at night, when..till some kind refreshment brought him to consistence, he was scarce alive.1884 Manch. Examiner 11 Oct. 4/7 Reports..begin to acquire strength and consistence.

†b. concrete. Matter dense enough to cohere. Obsolete or poetic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun] > matter dense enough

consistence1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 941 Neither Sea, Nor good dry Land: nigh founderd on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying.

1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 45 A liquid tenacious Humour, in the midst of which is a small Purple or black Consistence, that contains or gives Life to the future Ant.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. p. xvii Wearied with roaming over the crude consistence.

5. The degree of firmness with which the particles of a substance cohere; degree of density. (Usually of more or less viscous liquids.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > [noun] > consistency

compage1550

concretion1606

consistence1626

compages1660

consistencya1661

constitution1668

consisture1776

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun]

statec1225

estatec1230

farea1325

casec1325

beingc1330

degreec1330

condition1340

suita1375

stature?a1513

existence1530

affection?1543

existency1587

subsistence1597

consistence1626

subsistency1628

tone1641

consistency1690

attitude1744

situation1765

working order1784

faring1811

status1837

figure1858

the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [noun]

evenlinesseOE

evennessa1398

equality1398

uniformity?a1475

equalness1545

uniformness1579

coherence1588

constancy1593

identity1611

oneness1611

holdinga1616

homogeneity1625

homogeny1626

unity1638

equiformity1646

self-consistencya1652

invariableness1654

homogeneousness1658

univocacy1658

sameness1743

consistency1787

self-similarity1847

consistence1850

flushnessa1878

homogenization1938

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §839 The Consistences of Bodies are very diuers.

1636 H. Blount Voy. Levant 105 Other Flowers, Fruits, and Plumbes..are dryed together, into a consistence reasonable hard.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 147 Boyl that to the consistence of an Electuary.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 120 Rosins, whose consistence is more Solid.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 261 A due Consistence of the Blood is very necessary for Health.

1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 83 When cold results, it is from a change of consistence, as from the solid to the liquid state.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 192 Red-hot streams which generally present a consistence something like that of treacle.

figurative.1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 252 The reduction of episcopacy to a primitive consistence.1741 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 2 Besides, you know the consistence of my Italian.1805 J. Foster Ess. i. iii. 36 Very few minds are of a consistence so firmly faithful as to retain, in living efficacy, impressions of [such] a kind.

†6.

a. Coherence in one body, union, combination.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun]

combination1597

concurrency1597

combinement1606

consistence1651

compound1671

combinedness1852

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > agreement between the parts of a whole

self-consistencya1652

consistence1702

consistency1787

congruity1827

1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. xiii. 117 [They] declared themselves..to be the three States..maintaining thereby their subsistency by the Consistence of the Members together.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 176 To unite us in a consistence both of friendship and civil convenience.

†b. quasi-concrete. A union or combination of cohering elements. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > a combination

combination?1533

composition1556

composure1609

composture1614

compound1621

annexationa1626

conjugation1626

complexiona1637

composta1640

consistence1641

conferrumination1647

compositum1652

copulation1774

amalgam1790

amalgamation1828

combo1929

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 17 Take the Church of God as meaning the whole consistence of Orders and Members.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iv. 110 A consistence of many Unities.

†7. Coexistence as compatible facts. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > coexistence

compresencea1640

coexistence1646

coexistency1646

contemporianism1656

consistence1659

superposition1858

1659 O. Walker Περιαμμα Ἐπιδήμιον 66 They cannot apprehend the consistence of a Trinity of Persons with an identity of Essence.

8. = consistency n. 4, 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]

accordmentc1330

accorda1398

consonancya1398

unitya1398

accordancea1400

commoningc1400

convenience1413

correspondence1413

answeringc1425

conformityc1430

consonance1430

congruity1447

concordancec1450

consonantc1475

agreement1495

monochordc1500

conveniencya1513

agreeance1525

agreeableness1531

concinnity1531

congruence1533

harmony?1533

concent1563

tunableness1569

agreeing1575

answerableness1577

concert1578

consent1578

sympathy1578

concord1579

symphonia1579

correspondency1589

atone1595

coherence1597

respondence1598

symphony1598

sortance1600

coherency1603

respondency1603

symbolizing1605

coaptation1614

compositiona1616

sympathizing1632

comportance1648

compliance1649

syntax1649

concinneness1655

symmetry1655

homology1656

consistency1659

consentaneousness1660

consistence1670

comportment1675

harmoniousness1679

symbolism1722

congruousness1727

accordancy1790

sameness1790

consentaneity1798

consilience1840

chime1847

consensus1854

solidarity1874

synchromesh1966

concordancing1976

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. ii. 35 To take away this Confusion..and bring things to a consistence.

1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (ed. 6) ccccvii. 439 To Temper and Accomodate Freedom to a Consistence with Good Manners.

1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. ix. 77 Whether this be in a just Consistence with Themselves..I desire may now be impartially considered.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. ix. 136 They..have contrived, with what logical consistence I know not, to reconcile orthodox Christianity with unflinching democratic opinions.

a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 249 His works..exhibit greater finish and consistence.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	consistence
释义	consistencen. /kənˈsɪstəns/ Etymology: apparently < French consistence (16th cent. Paré), now consistance = Provençal consistencia , Spanish consistencia , Italian consistenza (in Florio); probably going back to a medieval Latin consistentia ; < consistent-* present participle of consistĕre : see consist v. and -ence suffix. †1. a. Standing or remaining still, quiescence; state of rest. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement standinga1398 stay1525 stand1584 consistence1598 still-stand1600 station1603 standstilla1646 dead lock1781 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Consistenza, a standing fast or a consistence, a setling. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Consistence, a consistence, or being; a residence, or setling. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §290 Water..being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore it self to the Natural consistence. 1641 Bp. J. Hall Serm. White-hall Aug. 8 2 I finde a change, of Motion..whether by consistence, or retrogradation, Sun, stand thou still in Gibeon..The shadow went back ten degrees. †b. spec. The ‘standing still’ of a living being, when it has attained its full growth, and before it begins to decay. Obsolete. Cf. consistent adj. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > prime > [noun] flowering agec1400 pridec1475 blooming-time1495 flower?1507 season?1507 day1546 flourishing years?1555 golden years1559 vigour1563 consistent age1574 prime1574 May moon1576 acme1579 Maya1586 flourish1597 May month1600 consistencea1613 May morna1616 constant age1620 high daya1625 blouth1643 flourishing age1737 heyday1751 floruit1843 bloom-hour1850 blossom-time1860 the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity full eldOE agec1275 douthc1275 full agec1390 maturitya1475 years?1532 just age1541 just years1541 consistencea1613 grown years1645 legal age1658 adultness1663 adultagea1670 muttonhood1841 adulthood1850 a1613 T. Overbury Obseruations Xvii. Prouinces (1626) 5 If they were at their Consistence. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) We distinguish three States or Stages of a Tree; its Growth, Consistence, and Return. 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Consistentia, an old term..applied to the arrival of a living body at its fulness and perfection.] †2. Continuance, endurance; continuing state. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time lenghc888 longnessOE enduringc1374 length1388 continuing1398 long lasting?c1400 perdurability?a1425 perseverance?a1425 permanence1440 perdurablenessc1450 perdurationc1450 continuation1469 diuturnity?a1475 prolixityc1500 endurancea1513 sustention1515 continuance1552 long standinga1568 longitude1596 long-lastingness1598 sempiternity1599 consistence1606 persistence1621 long-livedness1652 abidingness1654 productedness1664 imperdibility1713 longiturnity1727 endurableness1795 lengthiness1829 endurability1837 perenniality1841 longevity1842 protractedness1855 enduringnessa1867 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 42 b That [Mytralis] was Olimpias name, during the consistance of her infancy. †3. A settled condition of affairs. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun] > stable condition consistence1661 consistencya1676 even keel1737 1661 J. Taylor Let. 16 Nov. in J. Evelyn Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 135 I hope I have brought my affairs almost to a consistence. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. App. 34/1 Boston was no sooner come to some Consistence.., but the People found themselves plunged into a sad Nonplus. 4. a. Material coherence and permanence of form; solidity or firmness sufficient to retain its form. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun] thicknessc1000 consistency1594 consistence1626 constancy1794 the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > substantial or solid qualities substancec1425 consistence1626 consistency1709 nature1820 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §328 Putrefaction; which ever dissolveth the Consistence of the Body. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 50 Ice is only water congealed..whereby it acquireth..a consistence or determination of its diffluency. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 50 After what shape the muscles..might hang in their full consistences. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind ii. iii The nerve itself has a very small degree of consistence. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 542 It forms cubic crystals without consistence, and resembling a jelly. figurative.1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 48 Boyled up to a full consistence of contumacy and impenitency.a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 372 Often at night, when..till some kind refreshment brought him to consistence, he was scarce alive.1884 Manch. Examiner 11 Oct. 4/7 Reports..begin to acquire strength and consistence. †b. concrete. Matter dense enough to cohere. Obsolete or poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun] > matter dense enough consistence1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 941 Neither Sea, Nor good dry Land: nigh founderd on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying. View more context for this quotation 1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 45 A liquid tenacious Humour, in the midst of which is a small Purple or black Consistence, that contains or gives Life to the future Ant. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. p. xvii Wearied with roaming over the crude consistence. 5. The degree of firmness with which the particles of a substance cohere; degree of density. (Usually of more or less viscous liquids.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > [noun] > consistency compage1550 concretion1606 consistence1626 compages1660 consistencya1661 constitution1668 consisture1776 the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] statec1225 estatec1230 farea1325 casec1325 beingc1330 degreec1330 condition1340 suita1375 stature?a1513 existence1530 affection?1543 existency1587 subsistence1597 consistence1626 subsistency1628 tone1641 consistency1690 attitude1744 situation1765 working order1784 faring1811 status1837 figure1858 the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [noun] evenlinesseOE evennessa1398 equality1398 uniformity?a1475 equalness1545 uniformness1579 coherence1588 constancy1593 identity1611 oneness1611 holdinga1616 homogeneity1625 homogeny1626 unity1638 equiformity1646 self-consistencya1652 invariableness1654 homogeneousness1658 univocacy1658 sameness1743 consistency1787 self-similarity1847 consistence1850 flushnessa1878 homogenization1938 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §839 The Consistences of Bodies are very diuers. 1636 H. Blount Voy. Levant 105 Other Flowers, Fruits, and Plumbes..are dryed together, into a consistence reasonable hard. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 147 Boyl that to the consistence of an Electuary. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 120 Rosins, whose consistence is more Solid. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 261 A due Consistence of the Blood is very necessary for Health. 1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 83 When cold results, it is from a change of consistence, as from the solid to the liquid state. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 192 Red-hot streams which generally present a consistence something like that of treacle. figurative.1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 252 The reduction of episcopacy to a primitive consistence.1741 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 2 Besides, you know the consistence of my Italian.1805 J. Foster Ess. i. iii. 36 Very few minds are of a consistence so firmly faithful as to retain, in living efficacy, impressions of [such] a kind. †6. a. Coherence in one body, union, combination. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] combination1597 concurrency1597 combinement1606 consistence1651 compound1671 combinedness1852 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > agreement between the parts of a whole self-consistencya1652 consistence1702 consistency1787 congruity1827 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. xiii. 117 [They] declared themselves..to be the three States..maintaining thereby their subsistency by the Consistence of the Members together. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 176 To unite us in a consistence both of friendship and civil convenience. †b. quasi-concrete. A union or combination of cohering elements. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > a combination combination?1533 composition1556 composure1609 composture1614 compound1621 annexationa1626 conjugation1626 complexiona1637 composta1640 consistence1641 conferrumination1647 compositum1652 copulation1774 amalgam1790 amalgamation1828 combo1929 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 17 Take the Church of God as meaning the whole consistence of Orders and Members. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iv. 110 A consistence of many Unities. †7. Coexistence as compatible facts. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > coexistence compresencea1640 coexistence1646 coexistency1646 contemporianism1656 consistence1659 superposition1858 1659 O. Walker Περιαμμα Ἐπιδήμιον 66 They cannot apprehend the consistence of a Trinity of Persons with an identity of Essence. 8. = consistency n. 4, 5. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] accordmentc1330 accorda1398 consonancya1398 unitya1398 accordancea1400 commoningc1400 convenience1413 correspondence1413 answeringc1425 conformityc1430 consonance1430 congruity1447 concordancec1450 consonantc1475 agreement1495 monochordc1500 conveniencya1513 agreeance1525 agreeableness1531 concinnity1531 congruence1533 harmony?1533 concent1563 tunableness1569 agreeing1575 answerableness1577 concert1578 consent1578 sympathy1578 concord1579 symphonia1579 correspondency1589 atone1595 coherence1597 respondence1598 symphony1598 sortance1600 coherency1603 respondency1603 symbolizing1605 coaptation1614 compositiona1616 sympathizing1632 comportance1648 compliance1649 syntax1649 concinneness1655 symmetry1655 homology1656 consistency1659 consentaneousness1660 consistence1670 comportment1675 harmoniousness1679 symbolism1722 congruousness1727 accordancy1790 sameness1790 consentaneity1798 consilience1840 chime1847 consensus1854 solidarity1874 synchromesh1966 concordancing1976 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. ii. 35 To take away this Confusion..and bring things to a consistence. 1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (ed. 6) ccccvii. 439 To Temper and Accomodate Freedom to a Consistence with Good Manners. 1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. ix. 77 Whether this be in a just Consistence with Themselves..I desire may now be impartially considered. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. ix. 136 They..have contrived, with what logical consistence I know not, to reconcile orthodox Christianity with unflinching democratic opinions. a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 249 His works..exhibit greater finish and consistence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1598
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