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AdvertencyAdvertence Ad*vert"ence, Advertency Ad*vert"en*cy, [OF.
advertence, avertence, LL. advertentia, fr. L. advertens. See
Advertent.]
The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent;
attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.
To this difference it is right that advertence should
be had in regulating taxation. --J. S. Mill. AppetencyAppetency Ap"pe*ten*cy, n.; pl. Appetencies. [L. appetentia,
fr. appetere to strive after, long for. See Appetite.]
1. Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving;
an eager appetite.
They had a strong appetency for reading. --Merivale.
2. Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in
animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to
suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim;
the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies
the wants of its organism.
These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection
or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is
agreeable to their palate. --E. Darwin.
3. Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of
inanimate objects. Centripetency
Centripetency Cen*trip"e*ten*cy, n.
Tendency toward the center.
Consistency
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.
Existency
Existency Ex*ist"en*cy, n.
Existence. [R.] --Sir M. Hale.
Impenitency
Impenitency Im*pen"i*ten*cy, n.
Impenitence. --Milton.
ImpotencyImpotence Im"po*tence, Impotency Im"po*ten*cy, n. [L.
impotenia inability, poverty, want of moderation. See
Impotent.]
1. The quality or condition of being impotent; want of
strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral;
weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.
Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young
fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots,
and cripples. --Hayward.
O, impotence of mind in body strong! --Milton.
2. Want of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] --Milton.
3. (Law & Med.) Want of procreative power; inability to
copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility;
barrenness. InadvertencyInadvertence In`ad*vert"ence; pl. -ces, Inadvertency
In`ad*vert"en*cy; pl. -cies, n. [Cf. F. inadvertance.]
1. The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or
attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes
proceed from inadvertence.
Inadvertency, or want of attendance to the sense and
intention of our prayers. --Jer. Taylor.
2. An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an
oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence.
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses
an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to
works of an inferior kind of author which are
scrupulously exact. --Addison.
Syn: Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence;
thoughtlessness. See Inattention. InconsistencyInconsistency In`con*sist"en*cy, n.; pl. Inconsistencies.
[Cf. F. inconsistance.]
1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in
respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between
two things that both can not exist or be true together;
disagreement; incompatibility.
There is a perfect inconsistency between that which
is of debt and that which is of free gift. --South.
2. Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or
irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument,
or narration; that which is inconsistent.
If a man would register all his opinions upon love,
politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of
inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at
last! --Swift.
3. Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness;
changeableness; variableness.
Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with
ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature.
--Addison. Innitency
Innitency In*ni"ten*cy, n. [L. inniti, p. p. innixus, to lean
upon; pref. in- in, on + niti to lean.]
A leaning; pressure; weight. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
Insitency
Insitency In*si"ten*cy, n. [Pref. in- not + L. sitiens, p. pr.
of sitire to be thirsty, fr. sitis thirst.]
Freedom from thirst. [Obs.]
The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts.
--Grew.
LatencyLatency La"ten*cy, n. [See Latent.]
The state or quality of being latent.
To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three
degrees of this latency. --Sir W.
Hamilton. Nitency
Nitency Ni"ten*cy, n. [L. nitens, p. pr. of nitere to shine.]
Brightness; luster. [R.]
Nitency
Nitency Ni"ten*cy, n. [From :. nitens, p. pr. pf niti to
strive.]
Endeavor; rffort; tendency. [R.] --Boyle.
PatencyPatency Pa"ten*cy, n. [See Patent.]
1. The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.
2. The state of being patent or evident. Penitency
Penitency Pen"i*ten*cy, n.
Penitence. [Obs.]
PersistencyPersistence Per*sist"ence, Persistency Per*sist"en*cy, n.
[See Persistent.]
1. The quality or state of being persistent; staying or
continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense,
doggedness; obstinacy.
2. The continuance of an effect after the cause which first
gave rise to it is removed; as:
(a) (Physics) The persistence of motion.
(b) (Physiol.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the
visual impression; auditory persistence, etc. Plenipotency
Plenipotence Ple*nip"o*tence, Plenipotency Ple*nip"o*ten*cy,
n.
The quality or state of being plenipotent. [R.]
Preexistency
Preexistency Pre`["e]x*ist"en*cy, n.
Pre["e]xistence. [Obs.]
Readvertency
Readvertency Re`ad*vert"en*cy, n.
The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing. [R.]
--Norris.
Self-consistency
Self-consistency Self`-con*sist"en*cy, n.
The quality or state of being self-consistent.
Subsistency
Subsistency Sub*sist"en*cy, n.
Subsistence. [R.]
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