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noun

Consonancy, Consonance n.

(Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.

Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. "The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity." "The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance."

Friendship; concord. (Obs.) "By the consonancy of our youth."

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

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... clearness than was to be expected.] He attached great value to music, as a subject of precise mathematical calculation, and an art which has a great effect on the affections. Hence morals and mathematics were linked together in his mind. As the heavens were ordered in consonance with number, they must move in eternal order. "The spheres" revolved in harmonious order around the great centre of light and heat—the sun—"the throne of the elemental world." Hence the doctrine of "the music of the spheres." Pythagoras ad harmoniam canere mundum ...

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