Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Consonancy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Consonance \Con"so*nance\, Consonancy \Con"so*nan*cy\, n. [L.
consonantia: cf. F. consonnance.]
1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced
simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and
eighth.

2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency;
suitableness.

The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to
the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. --Hammond.

The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it
is in consonance. --Tyndall.

3. Friendship; concord. [Obs.]

By the consonancy of our youth. --Shak.

Syn: Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony;
congruity; suitableness; agreeableness.


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