† inˈgrediency Obs.
[f. ingredient: cf. ingredience, and see -ency.]
1. = ingredience 1.
| 1612 Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 345 Those which cannot have all the ingrediency of this composition. 1646 S. Bolton Arraignm. Err. 75 There are but few errours in oure dayes..but have some ingrediency of truth in them. 1662 R. Mathew Unl. Alch. p. ii, I am sure they know not all the Ingrediencies thereof. a 1684 Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. v. 4 Pure unmixed glory, without any ingrediency of pride or sinful vanity. |
2. = ingredience 2.
| 1648 W. Bridge England saved with a Notwithstanding 27 It [Papistry] destroies your Obedience, by the ingrediency of merits. 1650 Weekes Truth's Confl. ii. 50 There is an ingrediency and concurrence of all the great and glorious Perfections of God. 1668 Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 192 Think not that sensual pleasure..can have any ingrediency into..this state of blessedness. 1695 Whether Parlt. be not dissolved by Death P'cess Orange 3 [Parliaments] cannot cease to have an Ingrediency into the Government, without a dissolution of the whole Frame of it. |