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coherency|kəʊˈhɪərənsɪ| [ad. L. cohærēntia: see prec. and -ency.] The quality of being coherent or of hanging together in any respect.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xxv. (1632) 70 Whatsoever had no coherencie with it [Aristotle's doctrine], was but fond Chimeraes. 1611Cotgr., Entretenement, a coherencie, or hanging of things together; an vninterrupted continuation of matters. 1692Bentley (J.), Matter is either fluid or solid; words that may comprehend the middle degrees between extreme fixedness and coherency, and the most rapid intestine motion. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 24 The activity and the coherency of thought displayed by the Greek mind. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 27 The Protestants were thus isolated..with nothing to give them coherency as a party. 1883J. Fiske in Harper's Mag. Feb. 414/1 The indissoluble coherency of the American Union. |