consistence

Noun

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.
   • This composer’s musical work is of extraordinary consistence.
3. 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....
   • It is generally about the size of a melon, a little fibrous towards the centre, but everywhere else quite smooth and puddingy, something in consistence between yeast-dumplings and batter-pudding. - 1869, Alfred Russel...
   • 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, […] - 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt,...
4. 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...
   • VVe are as vvater, vveak, and of no conſiſtence, alvvayes deſcending, abiding in no certain place, unleſeſ vvhere vvee are detained vvith violence: […] - 1650 October (published 1651), Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons...
   • 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. - 1830, The Veterinarian:
5. 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]: […]...
6. Standing still; quiescence, state of rest.
7. A substance which adheres together.
   • 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. - 1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia,...