[f. L. consenēsc-ĕre to grow old together: see -ENCE.] The growing old together; general decay.
1692. Ray, Dissol. World, 40 The old Argument for the World’s Dissolution, and that is, its daily Consenescence and Decay.
1862. Sat. Rev., XIV. 419. We … are not conscious of this symptom of the consenescence of all things.
1882. Syd. Soc. Lex., Consenescence, the gradual approach of old age, the different organs failing in the same proportion.
