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consonancy Obs. or arch.|ˈkɒnsənənsɪ|
[ad. L. consonāntia: see prec. and -ancy.]
1. Agreement or pleasing combination of sounds; harmony, concord.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 203 Tubal of Caym was fyndere of consonancie and of musyk. 1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. vi. 29 A multitude of Musical Consonancies. 1694W. Holder Harmony (1731) 31 Consonancy and Dissonancy are the Result of the Agreement, mixture or uniting (or the contrary) of the undulated Motions of the Air or Medium, caused by the Vibrations by which the sounds of distinct Tunes are made. 1870Rossetti Ball. & Sonn. (1881) 217 And mute before The house of Love, hears through the echoing door His hours elect in choral consonancy.
2. Quality of being consonant or accordant; agreement, accord, harmony.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. viii. (1495) 867 By proporcion and consonancie and acorde of colour. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 443 b, Sweete agreable consonancye of Authors. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 295 Let mee coniure you by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth. 1692Sir T. P. Blount Ess. 149 Such a Consonancy, and Uniformity of Judgment. 1759B. Stillingfl. Misc. Tracts p. xxiv, A system which is obscure merely from its consonancy to nature. 1782E. N. Blower Geo. Bateman I. 107 Bateman's honest heart, good sense..brilliant conversation, from their consonancy with her own, had rivetted the..affections of Cecilia. 1833Lamb Elia, Amicus Rediv., Had he been drowned in Cam, there would have been consonancy in it.
†b. A ‘harmony’. Obs. rare.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 73 Who patched together, I wot not what kind of mangled consonancy of the Gospels.
3. Resemblance or correspondence of sound in words or syllables.
1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 45 [For] Vindomora, he sends us to Vanduara, in Scotland, meerly for some very small consonancy in the names. c1775Hurd Marks Imitation (R.), These consonancies chyming in the writer's head.
b. (See quot.)
1856J. Williams Gram. Edeyrn §1796 What is consonancy? The correspondence of consonants, and counter-change of vowels. |