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▪ I. ˈvergency1
[f. verge v.1: cf. next.]
The fact of bordering on something.
1825Ld. Cockburn Mem. iii. (1856) 179 [He] said of himself, ‘I often verge so nearly on absurdity’ [etc.]... This was quite true; especially the vergency on absurdity.
▪ II. vergency2|ˈvɜːdʒənsɪ|
[f. verge v.2 + -ency.]
†1. The act or fact of verging or inclining towards some condition, etc.; tendency, leaning; an instance of this. Also const. to, toward. Obs.
a1665J. Goodwin Filled with the Spirit (1867) 486 The general vergency and leaning of the Scriptures on that hand we speak of. 1668H. More Div. Dial. II. 451 The visible vergency of the World to another Degeneracy or Apostasie from the Kingdome of Christ. 1680― Apocal. Apoc. 27 Which is a sign you are in a state of languishment and vergency towards death. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. ii. xxix. 164/1 Scarce a Minute [would] pass him without a Turn of his Eye towards Heaven, whereto his heaven-touch'd Heart was carrying of him, with its continual Vergencies.
†b. Bent or inclination. Obs.
1649J. H. Motion to Parl. Adv. Learn. 33 It were but justice to him that the naturall vergency of his Genius should be found out.
2. The fact or condition of being inclined toward some object or in some direction.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. vii. §3 That respect of the imaginary face of a thing towards some other thing or place, called vergency, tending, leaning, inclining. a1696Scarburgh Euclid (1705) 13 First, there must be..an Inclination, Vergency,..or Tendency, of Two lines one to the other.
b. Optics. (See quots.)
1832Sir W. R. Hamilton in Trans. R. Irish Acad. (1837) XVII. 80 We may therefore call the curvatures of these two diametral sections the two vergencies of the final ray-lines. 1860Worcester (citing Lloyd), Vergency,..the reciprocal of the focal distance, being the measure of the degree of divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays. |