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concordant, a. and n.|kənˈkɔːdənt|
[a. F. concordant:—L. concordānt-em, pr. pple. of concordāre: see concord v. and -ant.]
A. adj.
1. Agreeing in sentiment or opinion; of one heart or mind; harmonious, unanimous.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 11 Be concordaunt and loue togyders. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xvi. xii, You be ever ryght concordant With perfyte reason, whiche is not variaunt. 1614J. Cooke Tu Quoque in Hazl. Dodsley XI. 197 Nay, sweet Mistress Tickleman, be concordant; reverence antiquity. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. xiii, By the concordant Voice of all the curious Judges. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xiv. 152 The common concordant and unanimous consent of all and singular.
2. Of things: Agreeing, consistent, correspondent.
concordant verses: ‘such as have in them several words in common, but by the addition of other words have a quite different meaning’ (Bailey (folio) 1736).
1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 19 §10 The hole some..evenly agreable and concordaunte with the hoole some comprised in the seid endenture. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 239 Adam assigned unto every one a name concordant unto its nature. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. 60 On four concordant lines. 1805Foster Ess. iv. vii. 221 If not concordant with the dictates of the New Testament. 1863Tyndall Heat v. 142 These different methods have given concordant results.
3. In musical concord, harmonious; consisting, or having the effect, of a concord.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. ii. (Arb.) 116 The concordaunte and discordant distaunces of soundes, and tunes. 1596Edw. III, ii. i. 14 The touch of sweet concordant strings. 1788Reid Act. Powers iii. iii. vi, Two or more synchronous sounds I perceive to be concordant.
4. [ad. G. konkordant (A. Supan Grundzüge Physisch. Erdkunde (ed. 2, 1896) iv. 574.] Of a geological feature: parallel (see quots.).
1914R. A. Daly Igneous Rocks v. 63 Concordant injections (injected along bedding planes)..Discordant Injections (injected across bedding planes). 1926G. W. Tyrrell Princ. Petrology ii. 16 If the molten material has been guided by the bedding planes of the intruded rock, the resulting igneous body is said to be concordant. On the other hand, the magma may break across the bedding planes, and then forms a transgressive or discordant mass. 1937Wooldridge & Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xxi. 354 The terms ‘concordant’ and ‘discordant’, proposed by Supan, are good alternatives for ‘longitudinal’ and ‘transverse’, in the general description of coastlines. 1961J. Challinor Dict. Geol. 43/2 Concordant, as applied to an igneous intrusion: lying parallel with planes of stratification or foliation. Contrasted with a discordant relationship.
B. † n. = concordance.
1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar ix. 84, I gave my reasons by speciall reciting many concordants inter partes. |