单词 | disconvenience |
释义 | disconveniencen. Now rare. 1. Lack of accordance or correspondence; = disconveniency n. Cf. inconvenience n. 1a. historical and rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] discordance1340 variancec1374 discorda1387 disconvenience?a1425 unsuingc1425 disaccordancec1436 unaccordancec1449 inconveniencec1460 discrepancea1464 difformness1547 disagreeance1548 disagreeing1548 jar1548 disagreement1551 disagreeableness1570 dissonancy1584 discordancy1587 discoherencea1600 disconveniency1601 disharmonya1602 dissent1603 dissonancea1604 incongruency1604 incongruence1610 incongruity1612 discongruity1624 inconformity1625 discorrespondencya1641 inconsonancy1650 inconsistence1651 dissidy1657 unagreeableness1658 discomposure1659 disconsonancy1659 uncorrespondency1659 inconveniency1662 unconsonancy1665 incorrespondence1667 oddness1680 inconsistency1699 incongruousness1727 irreconcilementa1737 discrepancy1748 incoincidence?1798 inaccordance1808 inconsonance1811 inaccordancy1817 incorrespondency1817 cacophony1831 divergence1837 disaccord1871 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 46v (MED) Idropysy in a complexioun hote and drie is yuel for it is with disconuenience [?c1425 Paris discordynge; L. disconuenientia] of particlerez. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 773 Where mesure faileth is disconuenience. ?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce f. 16v There is a wonderfull disconuenience betwene the sleightnesse of the stuffe wherewith it is builded, and the greatnesse of the waight of the whole building. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. iii. §2. 213 A necessary disconuenience, where any thing is allowed to bee cause of it selfe. 1656 T. Hobbes Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity & Chance 66 Fear ariseth many times out of natural antipathies, but in these disconveniences of nature, deliberation hath no place at all. 1688 J. Norris Theory & Regulation Love 89 Let the Instrument be tuned another way, and the Relations of convenience and disconvenience will alter, the same strokes, that were before disharmonical, may be now harmonical. 2004 S. Knuuttila tr. Duns Scotus in S. Knuuttila Emotions in Anc. & Medieval Philos. iv. 269 And when there is a convenience of this kind through willing the object or a disconvenience through willing against [etc.]. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfittingness > [noun] unconablenessa1340 unconabletya1340 unlikelinessa1413 ungrace1430 disconveniencec1450 wangrace1513 uncomeliness1542 improperty1555 unproperness1561 unmeetness1574 unhandsomeness1598 unbeseemingness1623 unbecomingness1652 impropriety1697 indecence1714 paw-pawness1828 unadaptedness1846 unbefittingness1865 society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] unconablenessa1340 unseemlinessc1380 ungrace1430 disconveniencec1450 unlikelinessc1485 wangrace1513 unseemingness1540 uncomeliness1542 indecency1589 undecency1589 unhandsomeness1598 unbeseemingness1623 misbecomingness1644 unbecomingness1652 indecorum1664 indecence1714 impropriety1751 indecorousness1811 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unseemly behaviour or unseemliness unconablenessa1340 unconabletya1340 unseemlinessc1380 ungrace1430 disconveniencec1450 unlikelinessc1485 wangrace1513 uncomeliness1542 indecency1589 undecency1589 unhandsomeness1598 unworthiness1608 inconveniencya1616 unbeseemingness1623 unbecomingness1652 indecorum1664 indecence1714 indecorousness1811 c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 953 (MED) Ther is A maneer disconvenience In Re publica is hoolde vicious, A kyng to pleyne vpon Indigence, Outhir in desirs to been Avaricious. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sconuenenolezza, disconuenience, vnseemelines. 3. Inconvenience, disadvantage; (as a count noun) an inconvenience, a disadvantage. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > [noun] incommodity?a1475 discommoditya1535 inconveniency1552 disconvenience1556 discommodiousness1579 discommodious1583 disconveniency1601 incommodiousnessa1631 ill-conveniency1653 inconvenience1653 disaccommodationa1676 bovver1883 1556 N. Grimald in tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties Pref. sig. ¶viijv To such sortes of annoyaunce, and disconuenience, light, and moderation is brought by morall doctrine. 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlvi. f. 260 What tormentes be in Loue, what trauailes in pursute..what disconueniences. 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 202 Hee..lookes to the disconveniences, not the commodity, hee getts by possession. a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Sol. ii. 11 What harm, what disconvenience lies In being foole? what vantage to be wise? 1730 R. Kirkpatrick Golden Rule 52 For a man,..to vow, and swear to endow his Wife with all his worldly Goods, it is a hard Task, considering many Men's Extravangances, and all other Disconveniences, which might be a Lett to him if he really design'd it. 1798 J. Austen Let. 17 Nov. (1952) 29 Dis-convenience and dis-inclination to go have kept pace together. 1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. v. 94 There may be no great disconvenience in talking before friends, but sometimes silence brings more profit than words. 1865 D. K. Clark Railway Machinery I. 322/2 Waggon-hoists are, at best, disconveniences;..and they are not used where they can be avoided. 1905 S. R. Crockett Maid Margaret of Galloway xliii. 356 Thrieve..had given me a distaste for the rubbish heaps and cabbage leaves of the Scots burghs, with their other disconveniences yet more grievous. 2000 W. Griffin tr. Thomas à Kempis Imitation of Christ iii. il. 193 Disconveniences are the order of the day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). disconveniencev. Originally Scottish. Now chiefly U.S. (regional and nonstandard). transitive (originally reflexive). = inconvenience v. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > affect with inconvenience [verb (transitive)] trouble1516 misease1530 incommodatea1575 inconveniencea1656 run1697 incommode1702 disannul1794 disconvenience1821 to put about1825 to put out1851 to jerk around1877 to bugger about1921 to dick around1944 to fuck around1955 to bugger around1961 to screw around1967 to fuck about1975 to cock around1990 to dick about1996 to cock about2009 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 459/2 My rich friends will never forgive me for disconveniencing myself in this fashion. 1840 G. Webster Ingliston xxxv. 334 What needs ye disconvenience yoursel' wi' gie'in awa' your nain bedclaise? 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xviii. 159 Sand had no cloak..yet he did not appear in the least disconvenienced. 1916 C. A. Seltzer Range Boss xx. 253 There won't be no awful hurry about it. I wouldn't want to disconvenience you. 1940 in Sc. National Dict. (1952) III. 83/3 No 'at I wad like to disconvenience onybody. 1982 Register (Orange County, Calif.) 13 Oct. c2/1 I had nothing but security around me. And it disconvenienced me. 2012 M. Rawn Touchstone xix. 274 It wasn't just him disconvenienced, was it? Because of him, his friends would suffer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425v.1821 |
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