2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Consistence \Con*sist"ence\, Consistency \Con*sist"en*cy\, n.
[Cf. F. consistance.]
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being
fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence;
firmness; coherence; solidity.
Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it
restore itself to the natural consistence. --Bacon.
We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. --Jer.
Taylor.
The same form substance, and consistency. --T.
Burnet.
2. A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude.
Let the expressed juices be boiled into the
consistence of a sirup. --Arbuthnot.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
consistency
n 1: the property of holding together and retaining its shape;
"when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to
bake" [syn: {consistence}, {body}]
2: a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
[syn: {consistence}] [ant: {inconsistency}]
3: logical coherence and accordance with the facts: "a rambling
argument that lacked any consistency"
4: (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so
constituted that none of the propositions deducible from
the axioms contradict one another
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