Now rare. [ad. L. subsīdentia: see prec.] = prec.
1655–87. H. More, App. Antid. (1712), 215. Bodies … in a confused agitation may very likely go together, as we see done … in the subsidency of this dreggish part of the World, the Earth.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Surrey (1662), III. 79. Those who judiciously impute the sudden subsidency of the Earth in the interstice aforesaid to some underground hollowness.
1691. Ray, Creation, II. (1704), 261. So as to cause a Subsidency of the Lungs by lessening the cavity there.
1779. Phil. Trans., LXIX. 597. A strong and regular current in a river is the best of all means … for preventing the formation of banks in the bed by the subsidency of mud, &c.
1811. Pinkerton, Petral., II. 476. Throughout all the space many fissures appeared and subsidencies of the ground.
1845. S. Judd, Margaret, II. iii. In the subsidency and departure of love, the moral system is revolutionized.
