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concinnous, a.|kənˈsɪnəs|
[f. L. concinn-us (see prec.) + -ous.]
1. Fitly put together or arranged, harmonious; agreeable, elegant, graceful. rare.
1662Glanvill Lux. Orient. i. (1682) 3 Till something else appear more concinnous and rational.
†2. Mus. Harmonious. Obs.
concinnous discord (or concinnous interval): a discord or dissonant interval which can be used in harmony.
1654Charleton Physiologia 227 The Concinnous, or Harmonical Sound..called..in our language the Twang. 1694W. Holder Harmony ix. (1731) 147 Those [discords] only here consider'd, which are (as the Greeks term'd them) ἐµµελῆ, Concinnous, apt and useful in Harmony. 1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v., Discords are distinguished into concinnous and inconcinnous intervals. 1746Phil. Trans. XLIV. 269 A Scale adapted only to the concinnous Constitution of one Key. 1760Stiles Anc. Grk. Music, ibid. LI. 721 The mutations by concinnous intervals. 1837Penny Cycl. VII. 434/1 Concinnous intervals, in Music, are the various concords.
3. Characterized by concinnity or studied elegance of style.
1831De Quincey Whiggism VI. 123 That most concinnous and rotund of professors, Mr. Heyne.
Hence conˈcinnously adv.
1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Concinnous, A system is said to be concinnous, or concinnously divided, when the parts thereof, considered as simple intervals, are concinnous. |