congruityn.

/kənˈɡruːɪti/

Etymology: < Latin congruitāt-em (perhaps immediately through French congruité , 15th cent. in Littré), < congruus : see congrue adj. and -ity suffix.

a. The quality of being congruous; agreement or correspondence in character or qualities; conformity, accordance, harmony. Const. with, less usually to.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]

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consonancya1398

unitya1398

accordancea1400

commoningc1400

convenience1413

correspondence1413

answeringc1425

conformityc1430

consonance1430

congruity1447

concordancec1450

consonantc1475

agreement1495

monochordc1500

conveniencya1513

agreeance1525

agreeableness1531

concinnity1531

congruence1533

harmony?1533

concent1563

tunableness1569

agreeing1575

answerableness1577

concert1578

consent1578

sympathy1578

concord1579

symphonia1579

correspondency1589

atone1595

coherence1597

respondence1598

symphony1598

sortance1600

coherency1603

respondency1603

symbolizing1605

coaptation1614

compositiona1616

sympathizing1632

comportance1648

compliance1649

syntax1649

concinneness1655

symmetry1655

homology1656

consistency1659

consentaneousness1660

consistence1670

comportment1675

harmoniousness1679

symbolism1722

congruousness1727

accordancy1790

sameness1790

consentaneity1798

consilience1840

chime1847

consensus1854

solidarity1874

synchromesh1966

concordancing1976

1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 10 This sexefold propyrte Of the margaryte, wych deuly longe To Seynt Margarete be congruyte Of simylytude.

1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue 241 Where there is a mutuall congruitie, there is seldome a voluntary seperation.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xiii. 121 Congruity of Opinions..to our natural constitution, is one great incentive to their belief and reception.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xi. 68 Wit..putting those [Ideas] together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity.

1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. II. x. 4 No discerning person can be at a loss about the meaning of the terms congruity and propriety, when applied to dress, behaviour, or language.

1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. iii. vii The congruity of such a right [divorce] with the law of nature.

1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 173 Accusations..which have no congruity with one another.

1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. ii. 16 There is, at least, moral congruity between the outward goodness and the inner life.

†b. Of physical substances: Correspondence of structure or molecular constitution (promoting union or mixture). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > correspondence of structure

congruity1626

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > compatibility > promoting union or mixture of physical substances

congruity1626

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §298 The reason is the Congruity of Bodies, which if it be more, maketh a perfecter imbibition and incorporation.

1682 N. Grew Of Mixture i. iv. §1 in Anat. Plants 229 Congruity, or aptitude and respondence betwixt the Sizes and Figures of Parts to be mixed.

1682 N. Grew Of Mixture i. iv. § 3 They [sc. two Oils] here mix and coagulate together..by the Congruity of their receiving and intruding parts.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word)

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Congruity, in a lax Sense, is also us'd to express an Aptitude in some Bodies, to unite, or incorporate, from some similitude or fitness of their Figures.

†c. Fitness, aptness, aptitude. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > ability or talent > a talent or special ability

gifta1300

dowerc1375

dowryc1440

faculty1490

indument1527

dote1546

furniture1561

vein1568

talent1602

acquirement1607

enduement1609

endowmentc1610

genius1611

congruity1659

feeling1808

feel1891

1659 H. More Immortality of Soul iii. i. Axiom xxviii There is a Triple Vital Congruity in the Soul, namely Æthereal, Aereal, and Terrestrial.

1659 H. More Immortality of Soul iii. i. xxix The Soul awakes orderly into these vital Congruities, not passing from one extreme to another without any stay in the middle.

a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 379 The second Person had the greatest congruity to this work.

1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 117 This Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness is the very same to the Life of the Soul, as that Organical Aptness is to the Life of the Body. 'Tis the Congruity of the Soul in order to Spiritual Life.

1882 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant (new ed.) I. ii. 36 His master's Rosicrucian theories..of the vital congruity.

d. (with plural) An instance or point of agreement, correspondence, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > an instance of

convenience1534

concordance1605

congruity1605

congruency1615

concinnity1640

coincidencea1661

consistency1771

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee2 By these insinuations and congruities [of poesy] with mans Nature and pleasure.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ ii. ii The author of a forgery, who sought to gain credit to a spurious letter by congruities, depending upon the time and place in which the letter was supposed to be written.

1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. §262 There must exist between all organisms and their environments certain congruities.

2. Self-accordance, harmony of the parts of a whole, coherence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > agreement between the parts of a whole

self-consistencya1652

consistence1702

consistency1787

congruity1827

1827 T. Carlyle Richter in Edinb. Rev. June 193 The congruity of Richter's belief.

1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey iv. 350 When we contrast the irregularities of Westminster Abbey with the uniform congruity of Salisbury.

1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 13 The historian, indeed, cannot invent his facts, but he must..dispose them with a graceful congruity.

3. Accordance: (a) with what is right, fitting, or reasonable; (b) with the circumstances, facts or surroundings; suitableness to the requirements of the case; fitness, propriety. †Phr. of, in (good) congruity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun]

covenablenessa1382

covenabletec1384

propertya1387

abilitya1398

congruencec1430

conveniencec1430

meetnessc1449

congruencya1513

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congruity1530

familiarity1551

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familiarnessa1617

idoneity1617

connaturalnessa1628

suitability1648

adequateness1650

adaptness1657

competibilitya1660

accommodateness1660

adaptation1663

adaptedness1673

evenliness1674

condecence1678

decorousness1678

feating1682

resemblance1715

idoneousness1727

appropriateness1731

favourableness1775

adaptitude1806

adaptment1831

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > suitable or appropriate [phrase] > as suitable or reasonable

of good congruence (of due or very congruence, by good congruence, in good c., etc.)1447

of a congruencya1513

of good congruity1530

1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Kiij^v He coude not of good congruyte but rewarde his old chappellayne.

a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1335/2 By a certayne concomytaunce folowynge of conuenient congruitye.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. i. 132 With what congruitie doth the Church of Rome denie that hir enemies..doe at all appertaine to the Church of Christ?

1670 I. Walton Life H. Wotton 47 in Lives As himself said of Sir Philip Sidney's wit, that it was the very measure of congruity.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §11. 94 The affixing the name of beauty to proportion, congruity and perfection.

1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets vi. 25 The Laws of this Universe..are fixed by the everlasting congruity of things.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 119 Voltaire's ever present sense of congruity..upon the tragic stage.

†4. Grammar. Agreement or concord; hence, grammatical correctness or propriety of speech. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > concord or agreement

congruity1393

concord1530

agreement1549

concordancea1568

congruence1933

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 136 Gramaire first hath for to teche To speke upon congruite.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure iv. xxi We were let in, by hygh auctoryte Of the ryght noble dame Congruyte.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 29 And for the same cause [euphony] breke they somtyme the congruite betwene the substantyve and the adjectyve.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 34^v All the hard congruities of Grammer.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 21 The congruity of my Latin, (in respect of their perfect Barbarisme).

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Congruence or Congruity..'tis properly said of a Theme, or Discourse, in which there is no Fault committed contrary to Grammar-Rules. [So Bailey1730–6 .]

5. Theology.

a. (Doctrine of Merit.) With the Schoolmen, the condition of its being ‘congruous’ that God should confer the ‘first grace’ in response, and in ‘a certain equality of proportion’, to the performance of good works by man. Opposed to condignity n.Representing Latin congruitas, used by Aquinas in stating that while ‘condignity’ can be attributed to meritorious works only as they proceed from the grace of the Holy Spirit, it yet ‘seems congruous that a man, working according to his own virtue or power, should be recompensed by God according to the excellency of His virtue.’ Summa Theol. Prim. Sec. Q. cxiv, Art. iii. Hence the expressions meritum ex congruo, meritum congrui ‘merit (arising) out of congruity’, ‘merit of congruity’; mereri (gratiam, etc.) de congruo ‘to merit (grace, etc.) from or of congruity’. (Some late writers have apparently confused the last with the ‘congruity of efficient grace’ in 5b.)

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > grace > doctrine concerning grace > [noun] > congruity

congruencea1540

congruity1553

Congruism1885

1553 Articles of Relig. xii Workes done before the grace of Christe..are not pleasaunt to God..neither do thei make menne mete to receiue Grace, or (as the Schole aucthoures saie) deserue Grace of congruitie [L. neque gratiam, ut multi vocant, de congruo merentur].

1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. i. 28/1 So that those works may be meritorious, and of congruitie obteine grace.

1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 491 From what fountaine the Schoole-men did deriue their doctrine of workes preparatorie, meriting grace by way of Congruetie, though not of Condignitie.

1625 W. Pemble Justification (1629) 31 What then are merits of congruity? Such workes whereto wages is not due by any iustice.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. ii. 39 But some of them say, that the Gospel it self, yea and the first special Grace, is given to men upon merit of congruity, though not of condignity.

a1707 W. Beveridge On 39 Art. art. xiii As we cannot do anything which it is just God should reward, and so deserve Grace of condignity: so neither can we do anything which it is fit and meet God should reward, and so deserve grace of Congruity.

1841 J. H. Newman Tract xc. §3 To deserve de congruo or of congruity, is to move the divine regard, not from any claim upon it, but from a certain fitness or suitableness: as for instance it might be said that dry wood had a certain disposition of fitness towards heat which green wood had not.

1856 E. H. Browne Expos. Thirty-nine Art. (ed. 3) Art. x It being agreeable to His nature and goodness to bestow grace on those who make such [unassisted] efforts. Endeavours then on the part of man to attain to godliness were by the schoolmen said to deserve grace de congruo, of congruity.

b. (Doctrine of Grace.) The suitability or adaptation of divine grace to the character, nature, disposition, or other circumstances of the person called, to which some theologians attribute its efficacy (see Congruism n.); ‘the efficacy of grace which acts while at the same time preserving the action of the free will’ (Littré). A term belonging to the great controversy on Grace between the Dominicans and the Jesuits, which began c. 1580.Cf. St. Augustine Ad Simplic. i, §13 Illi enim electi qui congruenter vocati: illi autem qui non congruebant neque contemperabantur vocationi, non electi, quia non secuti, quamvis vocati..Cujus [Deus] miseretur, sic eum vocat, quomodo scit ei congruere ut vocantem non respuat. Fenelon Œuvres (1820) III. 253 La grâce qu'on appelle congrue trouve dans sa congruité une véritable efficace.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > grace > doctrine concerning grace > [noun]

congruitya1680

a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1681) I. 305 The Jesuits..ascribe it [efficacious grace] all unto a congruity; that is, that God doth take a man at an advantage, spieth out a time wherein a man being under such and such circumstances and considerations, he may certainly convert him.

a1680 J. Corbet Humble Endeavour (1683) iii. xxii. 43 Receptivity and congruity for Grace doth not always lye in mens fair carriage.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The System of Congruity in Matters of Grace.

1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 104 (note) Molina..affirmed that Predestination was founded upon God's foreknowledge of the merits of the elect, to whom He accords grace of congruity; His scientia media enabling Him to foresee the future contingents arising from the nature and circumstances of His creatures.

†6. Geometry. Coincidence; exact agreement in superposition; capability of being exactly superposed. Obsolete. [Medieval Latin congruere = to coincide.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [noun] > geometrical relation

congruity1656

symmetry1823

homography1859

homology1863

1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiv. 134 There can be no congruity between a straight line and a line that is continually crooked.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) (In geometry.) Figures or lines which exactly correspond, when laid over one another, are in congruity.

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单词	congruity
释义	congruityn. /kənˈɡruːɪti/ Etymology: < Latin congruitāt-em (perhaps immediately through French congruité , 15th cent. in Littré), < congruus : see congrue adj. and -ity suffix. 1. a. The quality of being congruous; agreement or correspondence in character or qualities; conformity, accordance, harmony. Const. with, less usually to. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] accordmentc1330 accorda1398 consonancya1398 unitya1398 accordancea1400 commoningc1400 convenience1413 correspondence1413 answeringc1425 conformityc1430 consonance1430 congruity1447 concordancec1450 consonantc1475 agreement1495 monochordc1500 conveniencya1513 agreeance1525 agreeableness1531 concinnity1531 congruence1533 harmony?1533 concent1563 tunableness1569 agreeing1575 answerableness1577 concert1578 consent1578 sympathy1578 concord1579 symphonia1579 correspondency1589 atone1595 coherence1597 respondence1598 symphony1598 sortance1600 coherency1603 respondency1603 symbolizing1605 coaptation1614 compositiona1616 sympathizing1632 comportance1648 compliance1649 syntax1649 concinneness1655 symmetry1655 homology1656 consistency1659 consentaneousness1660 consistence1670 comportment1675 harmoniousness1679 symbolism1722 congruousness1727 accordancy1790 sameness1790 consentaneity1798 consilience1840 chime1847 consensus1854 solidarity1874 synchromesh1966 concordancing1976 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 10 This sexefold propyrte Of the margaryte, wych deuly longe To Seynt Margarete be congruyte Of simylytude. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue 241 Where there is a mutuall congruitie, there is seldome a voluntary seperation. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xiii. 121 Congruity of Opinions..to our natural constitution, is one great incentive to their belief and reception. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xi. 68 Wit..putting those [Ideas] together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. 1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. II. x. 4 No discerning person can be at a loss about the meaning of the terms congruity and propriety, when applied to dress, behaviour, or language. 1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. iii. vii The congruity of such a right [divorce] with the law of nature. 1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 173 Accusations..which have no congruity with one another. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. ii. 16 There is, at least, moral congruity between the outward goodness and the inner life. †b. Of physical substances: Correspondence of structure or molecular constitution (promoting union or mixture). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > correspondence of structure congruity1626 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > compatibility > promoting union or mixture of physical substances congruity1626 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §298 The reason is the Congruity of Bodies, which if it be more, maketh a perfecter imbibition and incorporation. 1682 N. Grew Of Mixture i. iv. §1 in Anat. Plants 229 Congruity, or aptitude and respondence betwixt the Sizes and Figures of Parts to be mixed. 1682 N. Grew Of Mixture i. iv. § 3 They [sc. two Oils] here mix and coagulate together..by the Congruity of their receiving and intruding parts. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Congruity, in a lax Sense, is also us'd to express an Aptitude in some Bodies, to unite, or incorporate, from some similitude or fitness of their Figures. †c. Fitness, aptness, aptitude. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > ability or talent > a talent or special ability gifta1300 dowerc1375 dowryc1440 faculty1490 indument1527 dote1546 furniture1561 vein1568 talent1602 acquirement1607 enduement1609 endowmentc1610 genius1611 congruity1659 feeling1808 feel1891 1659 H. More Immortality of Soul iii. i. Axiom xxviii There is a Triple Vital Congruity in the Soul, namely Æthereal, Aereal, and Terrestrial. 1659 H. More Immortality of Soul iii. i. xxix The Soul awakes orderly into these vital Congruities, not passing from one extreme to another without any stay in the middle. a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 379 The second Person had the greatest congruity to this work. 1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 117 This Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness is the very same to the Life of the Soul, as that Organical Aptness is to the Life of the Body. 'Tis the Congruity of the Soul in order to Spiritual Life. 1882 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant (new ed.) I. ii. 36 His master's Rosicrucian theories..of the vital congruity. d. (with plural) An instance or point of agreement, correspondence, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > an instance of convenience1534 concordance1605 congruity1605 congruency1615 concinnity1640 coincidencea1661 consistency1771 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee2 By these insinuations and congruities [of poesy] with mans Nature and pleasure. View more context for this quotation 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ ii. ii The author of a forgery, who sought to gain credit to a spurious letter by congruities, depending upon the time and place in which the letter was supposed to be written. 1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. §262 There must exist between all organisms and their environments certain congruities. 2. Self-accordance, harmony of the parts of a whole, coherence. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > agreement between the parts of a whole self-consistencya1652 consistence1702 consistency1787 congruity1827 1827 T. Carlyle Richter in Edinb. Rev. June 193 The congruity of Richter's belief. 1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey iv. 350 When we contrast the irregularities of Westminster Abbey with the uniform congruity of Salisbury. 1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 13 The historian, indeed, cannot invent his facts, but he must..dispose them with a graceful congruity. 3. Accordance: (a) with what is right, fitting, or reasonable; (b) with the circumstances, facts or surroundings; suitableness to the requirements of the case; fitness, propriety. †Phr. of, in (good) congruity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] covenablenessa1382 covenabletec1384 propertya1387 abilitya1398 congruencec1430 conveniencec1430 meetnessc1449 congruencya1513 conveniency1526 congruity1530 familiarity1551 suitableness1594 familiarnessa1617 idoneity1617 connaturalnessa1628 suitability1648 adequateness1650 adaptness1657 competibilitya1660 accommodateness1660 adaptation1663 adaptedness1673 evenliness1674 condecence1678 decorousness1678 feating1682 resemblance1715 idoneousness1727 appropriateness1731 favourableness1775 adaptitude1806 adaptment1831 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > suitable or appropriate [phrase] > as suitable or reasonable of good congruence (of due or very congruence, by good congruence, in good c., etc.)1447 of a congruencya1513 of good congruity1530 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Kiij^v He coude not of good congruyte but rewarde his old chappellayne. a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1335/2 By a certayne concomytaunce folowynge of conuenient congruitye. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. i. 132 With what congruitie doth the Church of Rome denie that hir enemies..doe at all appertaine to the Church of Christ? 1670 I. Walton Life H. Wotton 47 in Lives As himself said of Sir Philip Sidney's wit, that it was the very measure of congruity. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §11. 94 The affixing the name of beauty to proportion, congruity and perfection. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets vi. 25 The Laws of this Universe..are fixed by the everlasting congruity of things. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 119 Voltaire's ever present sense of congruity..upon the tragic stage. †4. Grammar. Agreement or concord; hence, grammatical correctness or propriety of speech. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > concord or agreement congruity1393 concord1530 agreement1549 concordancea1568 congruence1933 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 136 Gramaire first hath for to teche To speke upon congruite. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure iv. xxi We were let in, by hygh auctoryte Of the ryght noble dame Congruyte. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 29 And for the same cause [euphony] breke they somtyme the congruite betwene the substantyve and the adjectyve. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 34^v All the hard congruities of Grammer. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 21 The congruity of my Latin, (in respect of their perfect Barbarisme). 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Congruence or Congruity..'tis properly said of a Theme, or Discourse, in which there is no Fault committed contrary to Grammar-Rules. [So Bailey1730–6 .] 5. Theology. a. (Doctrine of Merit.) With the Schoolmen, the condition of its being ‘congruous’ that God should confer the ‘first grace’ in response, and in ‘a certain equality of proportion’, to the performance of good works by man. Opposed to condignity n.Representing Latin congruitas, used by Aquinas in stating that while ‘condignity’ can be attributed to meritorious works only as they proceed from the grace of the Holy Spirit, it yet ‘seems congruous that a man, working according to his own virtue or power, should be recompensed by God according to the excellency of His virtue.’ Summa Theol. Prim. Sec. Q. cxiv, Art. iii. Hence the expressions meritum ex congruo, meritum congrui ‘merit (arising) out of congruity’, ‘merit of congruity’; mereri (gratiam, etc.) de congruo ‘to merit (grace, etc.) from or of congruity’. (Some late writers have apparently confused the last with the ‘congruity of efficient grace’ in 5b.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > grace > doctrine concerning grace > [noun] > congruity congruencea1540 congruity1553 Congruism1885 1553 Articles of Relig. xii Workes done before the grace of Christe..are not pleasaunt to God..neither do thei make menne mete to receiue Grace, or (as the Schole aucthoures saie) deserue Grace of congruitie [L. neque gratiam, ut multi vocant, de congruo merentur]. 1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. i. 28/1 So that those works may be meritorious, and of congruitie obteine grace. 1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 491 From what fountaine the Schoole-men did deriue their doctrine of workes preparatorie, meriting grace by way of Congruetie, though not of Condignitie. 1625 W. Pemble Justification (1629) 31 What then are merits of congruity? Such workes whereto wages is not due by any iustice. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. ii. 39 But some of them say, that the Gospel it self, yea and the first special Grace, is given to men upon merit of congruity, though not of condignity. a1707 W. Beveridge On 39 Art. art. xiii As we cannot do anything which it is just God should reward, and so deserve Grace of condignity: so neither can we do anything which it is fit and meet God should reward, and so deserve grace of Congruity. 1841 J. H. Newman Tract xc. §3 To deserve de congruo or of congruity, is to move the divine regard, not from any claim upon it, but from a certain fitness or suitableness: as for instance it might be said that dry wood had a certain disposition of fitness towards heat which green wood had not. 1856 E. H. Browne Expos. Thirty-nine Art. (ed. 3) Art. x It being agreeable to His nature and goodness to bestow grace on those who make such [unassisted] efforts. Endeavours then on the part of man to attain to godliness were by the schoolmen said to deserve grace de congruo, of congruity. b. (Doctrine of Grace.) The suitability or adaptation of divine grace to the character, nature, disposition, or other circumstances of the person called, to which some theologians attribute its efficacy (see Congruism n.); ‘the efficacy of grace which acts while at the same time preserving the action of the free will’ (Littré). A term belonging to the great controversy on Grace between the Dominicans and the Jesuits, which began c. 1580.Cf. St. Augustine Ad Simplic. i, §13 Illi enim electi qui congruenter vocati: illi autem qui non congruebant neque contemperabantur vocationi, non electi, quia non secuti, quamvis vocati..Cujus [Deus] miseretur, sic eum vocat, quomodo scit ei congruere ut vocantem non respuat. Fenelon Œuvres (1820) III. 253 La grâce qu'on appelle congrue trouve dans sa congruité une véritable efficace. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > grace > doctrine concerning grace > [noun] congruitya1680 a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1681) I. 305 The Jesuits..ascribe it [efficacious grace] all unto a congruity; that is, that God doth take a man at an advantage, spieth out a time wherein a man being under such and such circumstances and considerations, he may certainly convert him. a1680 J. Corbet Humble Endeavour (1683) iii. xxii. 43 Receptivity and congruity for Grace doth not always lye in mens fair carriage. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The System of Congruity in Matters of Grace. 1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 104 (note) Molina..affirmed that Predestination was founded upon God's foreknowledge of the merits of the elect, to whom He accords grace of congruity; His scientia media enabling Him to foresee the future contingents arising from the nature and circumstances of His creatures. †6. Geometry. Coincidence; exact agreement in superposition; capability of being exactly superposed. Obsolete. [Medieval Latin congruere = to coincide.] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [noun] > geometrical relation congruity1656 symmetry1823 homography1859 homology1863 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiv. 134 There can be no congruity between a straight line and a line that is continually crooked. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) (In geometry.) Figures or lines which exactly correspond, when laid over one another, are in congruity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1393
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