competency

1. (obsolete) A sufficient supply (of).Examples: "the next day they returned unsuspected, leaving their confederates to follow, and in the interim, to convay them a competencie of all things they could […]"; "[…] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold […]"countableobsoleteuncountable

2. (obsolete) A sustainable income.Examples: "Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."; "And that knights competency you haue gotten / VVith care and labour: he vvith luſt and idleneſſe / VVill bring into the ſtypend of a begger; […]"; "He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. He knew that the lack made a man petty, mean, grasping; it distorted his character and caused him to view the world from a vulgar angle; when you had to consider every penny, money became of grotesque importance: you needed a competency to rate it at its proper value."countableobsoleteuncountable

3. (law) Meeting specified qualifications to perform.countableuncountable

4. (linguistics) Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.countableuncountable