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The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds.

Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. Holland.

n the meaning; to imply. Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South.

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.

The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness. Speed.

Capability of being controlled; controllableness.

The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency, Let me have judgment. Shak.

The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.

Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.

e quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.

The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.

bode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.

roton oil. Crotonic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline organic acid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to exist in croton oil. Also, any acid metameric with crotonic acid proper.

The state of being curable; curableness.

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. Calamy. We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. Barrow.

The quality of being damnable; damnableness. Sir T. More.

end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. Matt. xxviii. 1.

existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. A man who was great among the Hellenes of his day. Jowett (Thucyd. ) If my debtors do not keep their day, . . . I must with patience all the terms attend. Dryden.

Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike. The lips put on a deadish paleness. A. Stafford.

The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot.