disconformableadj.
/ˌdɪskənˈfɔːməbl/, U.S. /ˌdɪskənˈfɔrməb(ə)l/ 1. Not conforming or corresponding; disagreeing, different; inconsistent. Chiefly in predicative use with from, to. Cf. unconformable adj. 1a, disconform adj. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective]
uncouthc1374
strangec1380
alienate1533
unconformable1593
disconformablec1600
inconformable1612
anomalous1646
unmodelled1650
disform1656
inconform1659
unattuned1792
unassimilating1796
anomalistic1802
c1600 W. Fowler tr. N. Machiavelli Prince in Wks. (1936) II. 129 Schawing the causes.., not disconformable [It. disforme] fra that which alreddie I have discoursed.
1603 King James VI & I in Contn. Stow's Chron. (1615) 842/1 As long as they are disconformable in religion from vs, they cannot be but halfe my Subiects.
1653 J. Davies tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd x. 252 Are not you in a habit disconformable to your quality?
1665 J. Davies tr. M. C. de La Chambre Art how to know Men ii. 328 A man must..observe divers conformable and disconformable Signs, and afterwards make a comparison between the one and the other.
1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence vi. 232 Always disconformable to himself, doing what he would not, and not doing what he would and should.
1762 T. Patten King David Vindicated 39 A fact may be essentially and in it's own nature improbable; disconformable to the common course of things.
1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 329 By means disconformable to the uniform course of nature.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1861) I. 412 The amount of..mental manifestation and cerebral development can be..compared together, and found either to be conformable or disconformable.
1903 Rep. Patent, Design & Trade Mark Cases 20 391 The alleged invention..was a different invention from the invention..described in the Provisional Specification and was disconformable thereto.
2. Geology. Constituting or exhibiting a disconformity; (of a stratum) related to or lying on an underlying stratum that has the same orientation but has undergone erosion, so that the chronological sequence of strata is interrupted. Cf. conformable adj. 4, unconformable adj. 3.
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1905 A. W. Grabau in Science 27 Oct. 534/2 We need a term to express the relation where two formations thus conform in their bedding but comprise between them a time break of greater or less magnitude. To speak of such strata as unconformable, without qualifying the term,..suggests that the older strata have suffered folding and erosion before the deposition of the later... We might speak of such formations as disconformable.
1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 295 The true nature of this important junction it is difficult to tell, but it has the appearance of being a disconformable one.
1970 Nature 12 Sept. 1127/1 The glacial beds..are disconformable on Aztec siltstone.
2005 Jrnl. Paleontol. 79 314/2 Disconformable to the underlying Great Swamp Beds, local collectors recognize the Ruggles (Bent) Creek Beds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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