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{ } [ OF. advertence, avertence, LL. advertentia, fr. L. advertens. See Advertent. ] The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. appétence. See Appetency. ] A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. armipotentia, fr. armipotents. ] Power in arms. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Centripetency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. compétence, from L. competentia agreement. ] 1. The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power. [ 1913 Webster ]

The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence. (b) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually, especially possession of the skill and knowledge required (for a task). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. consistance. ] 1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The same form, substance, and consistency. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A degree of firmness, density, viscosity, or spissitude; a measure of the ability to hold together when manipulated.
Syn. -- body. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which stands together as a united whole; a combination. [ 1913 Webster ]

The church of God, as meaning the whole consistence of orders and members. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency. [ 1913 Webster ]

His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Agreement or harmony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character. [ 1913 Webster ]

That consistency of behavior whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consistency, thou art a jewel. Popular Saying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. existence. ] 1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The main object of our existence. Lubbock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war. [ 1913 Webster ]

The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but another word for its being perceived, or for the inferred possibility of perceiving it. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Power over fire. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. impenitentia: cf. F. impénitence. ] The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. impotenia inability, poverty, lack of moderation. See Impotent. ] 1. The quality or condition of being impotent; lack of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lack of self-restraint or self-control. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law & Med.) Lack of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness; specifically, in males: the inability to achieve or sustain a penile erection; erectile dysfunction. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ pl. -ces /plu>, pl. -cies /plu>, } n. [ Cf. F. inadvertance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inadvertency, or lack of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact. Addison.

Syn. -- Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence; thoughtlessness. See Inattention. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Pref. in- not + appetence: cf. F. inappétence. ] Lack of appetency; lack of desire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of not coexisting. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. incompétence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or state of being incompetent; lack of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; lack of qualifications or training (for a particular task); insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child for hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. “Some inherent incompetency.” Gladstone.
Syn. -- incompetence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Lack of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause.

Syn. -- Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inconsistency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- in + existence. ] [ Obs. ] (a) Inherence; subsistence. Bp. Hall. (b) That which exists within; a constituent. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- in + existence: cf. F. inexistence. ] Lack of being or existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. intermittence. ] Act or state of intermitting; intermission. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Latency. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Met- + encephalon. ] (Anat.) The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inadvertence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of not existing; absence of existence; the negation of being; -- usually used with reference to existince in the real world, or logical possiblity; as, the nonexistence of vaporware does not go unnoticed long. A. Baxter.
Syn. -- nonentity{ 1 }. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. omnipotentia: cf. F. omnipotence. ] 1. The state of being omnipotent; almighty power; hence, one who is omnipotent; the Deity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will Omnipotence neglect to save
The suffering virtue of the wise and brave? Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unlimited power of a particular kind; as, love's omnipotence. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. pénitence, L. paenitentia. See Penitent, and cf. Penance. ] The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition. “Penitence of his old guilt.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death is deferred, and penitenance has room
To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Repentance; contrition; compunction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. pénitencier. ] A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases. [ Written also penitenser. ] [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Persistent. ] 1. The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed; as: (a) (Physics) The persistence of motion. (b) (Physiol.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality or state of being plenipotent. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) The metencephalon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Subsequent existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. LL. potentia staff, crutch, L., might, power. See Potency. ] Potency; capacity. [ R. ] Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wisdom declares her antiquity and preëxistence to all the works of this earth. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Existence of the soul before its union with the body; -- a doctrine held by certain philosophers. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ LL. praetensus, for L. praetentus, p. p. of praetendere. See Pretend, and cf. Tension. ] 1. The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship of Merton College, Oxford. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Cæsar's death. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let not the Trojans, with a feigned pretense
Of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Intention; design. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A very pretense and purpose of unkindness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ See the Note under Offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Mask; appearance; color; show; pretext; excuse. -- Pretense, Pretext. A pretense is something held out as real when it is not so, thus falsifying the truth. A pretext is something woven up in order to cover or conceal one's true motives, feelings, or reasons. Pretext is often, but not always, used in a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., a., a. See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. rénitence. ] The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from L. sententia, for sentientia, from sentire to discern by the senses and the mind, to feel, to think. See Sense, n., and cf. Sentiensi. ] 1. Sense; meaning; significance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Tales of best sentence and most solace. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

My sentence is for open war. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

That by them [ Luther's works ] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases. [ 1913 Webster ]

Received the sentence of the law. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw. Broome. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Gram.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Sentences are simple or compound. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, “The Lord reigns.” A compound sentence contains two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse: - [ 1913 Webster ]

He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dark sentence, a saying not easily explained. [ 1913 Webster ]

A king . . . understanding dark sentences. Dan. vii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sentenced p. pr. & vb. n. Sentencing ] 1. To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nature herself is sentenced in your doom. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To decree or announce as a sentence. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To utter sententiously. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Education) A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet method and word method. See also phonics. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. subsistance, L. subsistentia. ] 1. Real being; existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence. [ 1913 Webster ]

His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Theol.) Same as Hypostasis, 2. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]