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The property of holding together and retaining its shape
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consistence
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts [syn: consistency ] [ant: inconsistency ] the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency , body ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "state of standing still; firmness," from Middle French consistence (Modern French consistance ) "a standing fast," from Medieval Latin consistentia , from Latin consistentem (nominative consistens ), present participle of consistere (see consist ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consistence \Con*sist"ence\, Consistency \Con*sist"en*cy\, n. 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) The physical quality which is given by the degree of firmness, solidity, density, and viscosity; consistency. 2 The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things. 3 (context obsolete English) Standing ...
Usage examples of consistence.
The grease which we employed was made by mixing lampblack and olive oil to such a consistence that it could be laid on in a thick layer.
Three pounds of the fresh blossoms should be infused in five pints of boiling water, and then simmered down to a proper consistence with sugar.
Conjectures, especially where infinity is excluded from the Divine attributes, may perhaps be sufficient to prove a consistence, but can never be foundations for any inference.
The leaflets are small, of a paler green and more tender consistence than the foliaceous petioles.
There is a considerable demand on the Continent for an aqueous extract of the berries called Roob, or Rob of Juniper, and the distilled oil is in this case a by-product, the berries being first crushed and macerated with water and then distilled with water and the residue in the still evaporated to a soft consistence.
In an Hydropicall body, ten years buried in the Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap.