[a. F. compatibilité: see next and -ITY.] The quality of being compatible; mutual tolerance, consistency, congruity.
1611. Cotgr., Compatibilité, compatibilitie; a concurrencie, accord, agreement together.
a. 1677. Barrow, Wks. (1686), II. 134. The compatibility and concurrence of such properties in one thing.
1737. Gentl. Mag., VII. 336. You try the infinite perfections by their compatibility with your ideas!
1848. Carpenter, Anim. Phys., 11. Examples of the compatibility of even the heat of boiling water with the preservation of animal life.
