congruet (kongro′)

[F. congru = Sp. cón gruo Pg. It. congruo, Neither have you any just congrue occasion in my book so to judge. Foxe , Martyrs, p. 645. congruelyt (kon-gröʻli), adv. Fittingly; congruously. Hall. [ Verses or rime be a kind of Music all vtterance, by reason of a certaine congruitie in sounds pleasing the eare, though not perchance so exquisitely as the harmonic all concents of the artificial Musicke. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 53. A whole sentence may fail of its congruity by wanting one particle. Sir P. Sidney. The corals which thy wrist enfold, Lac'd up together in congruity . Donne , The Token. Congruity and propriety are commonly reckoned synonymous terms;.. but they are distinguishable.. Congruity is the genus of which propriety is a species. Kames, Elem. of Criticism, I. 304. On the hypothesis of Evolution, there must exist between all organisms and their environments certain con gruities expre ible in terms of their actions and reactions. H. Spencer , Prin. of Biol., § 262. 2. In scholastic theol., the performance of good actions, which is supposed to render it meet and equitable that God should confer grace on those who perform them. See con dignity, 2.-3. In geom., equality; capacity of being superposed.-Direct congruity, in geom., capacity of being superposed without being turned over or perverted.-Inverse congruity, in geom., capacity of being superposed, but only by means of perversion, or turning