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subsidency Now rare.|sʌbˈsaɪdənsɪ, ˈsʌbsɪdənsɪ| [ad. L. subsīdentia: see prec.] = prec.
1655–87H. More App. Antid. (1712) 215 Bodies..in a confused agitation may very likely go together, as we see done..in the subsidency of this dreggish part of the World, the Earth. a1661Fuller Worthies, Surrey (1662) iii. 79 Those who judiciously impute the sudden subsidency of the Earth in the interstice aforesaid to some underground hollowness. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1704) 261 So as to cause a Subsidency of the Lungs by lessening the cavity there. 1779Phil. Trans. LXIX. 597 A strong and regular current in a river is the best of all means..for preventing the formation of banks in the bed by the subsidency of mud, &c. 1811Pinkerton Petral. II. 416 Throughout all the space many fissures appeared and subsidencies of the ground. 1845S. Judd Margaret ii. iii, In the subsidency and departure of love, the moral system is revolutionized. |