discordn.
/ˈdɪskɔːd/, U.S. /ˈdɪˌskɔrd/ 1.
a. Disharmony or disagreement between people; mutual antagonism; dissension, contention, strife. Also: an instance of this.apple of discord: see apple of discord n. at apple n. Phrases 3b.
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [noun]
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otherwise-mindedness1865
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 104 Þe Niheðe cundel is sawunge of unsibsumnesse of wreaððe & of descorde.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 4039 Vor Iuli cesar hit nom verst..Vor descord & contek, þat bituene vr eldorne was þo.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 43 Þe zenne of ham þet zaweþ discord.
c1390 Charter Abbey Holy Ghost (Laud) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 351 (MED) Þere schulde also..ben a discord by-twene god and man.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 23 (MED) Þei weren at gret discord for to make a soudan.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 42 Thare was grete discorde [in Rome].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xv. C An angrie man stereth vp strife, but he yt is pacient stilleth discorde.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 222 Yet were they at discorde brawling about the preseance.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. vii. 63 For what is wedlocke [printed wedloeke] forced? but a Hell, An Age of discord and continuall strife. View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 354 These two Barones were at great discord, about the love of a young Noble woman.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 243 They who were newly gotten into power, being ignorant how to use the time, nourished discords by variety of evill deeds.
1713 R. Steele in Guardian 3 June 2/1 Let him who wantonly sports away the Peace of a poor Lady, consider what Discord he sows in Families.
1781 S. Johnson Fenton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VI. 2 Men..who at that time of discord and debate consulted conscience..more than interest.
1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 13 Trying to sow discord between man and man, class and class.
1896 Argosy Jan. 368/1 I shall think of you only as the dear companion of those happy days of boyhood when no discord had come between us.
1911 F. J. Snell Customs Old Eng. ix. 103 Promoting discord between Northerns and Southerns.
1956 Crisis Dec. 635/2 M. Guérin..feels that our chief ills flow from our industrial and banking monopolies and the resultant discords which they stir up.
2005 Time 16 May 50/1 A girl in her young teens suffering from discord at home and doing poorly at school.
b. Chiefly poetic. Disagreement or disharmony personified.
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society > society and the community > dissent > [noun]
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unharmony1866
inharmony1867
trouble at (the or t') mill1967
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 4515 (MED) Wher Discord holdeth residence, It is wel wers þan swerd or pestilence.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. iv. 21 Witless Discord, that wondryng maist crewell.
1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta 2nd Chorus in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Piv Let cruell discorde beare thee companie, Engirt with snakes.
1633 J. Fisher Fuimus Troes v. iv. sig. Iv Discord, child of hell, Numbers of traine-men, and each Captaine pickt Out of a Province, make vs bow or breake.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 707 Discord first Daughter of Sin, among th' irrational, Death introduc'd. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 482 Fell Discord, arbitress of such debate.
1796 G. D. Harley Poems 56 That jarring dæmon, Discord, shall..Confuse and ravel every strained string.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Love thou thy Land in Poems (new ed.) I. 227 Regard gradation, lest the Soul Of Discord race the rising wind.
1904 G. L. Taylor Asters & Golden-rod 12 Old Discord's reign is riven! Peace on earth! good-will is given!
1994 R. Miles I, Elizabeth iii. liii. 414 She was the daughter of Discord himself, born in time of war, suckled by Conflict.
2. Disharmony or incompatibility between things; difference, variance, incongruity.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun]
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irreconcilementa1737
discrepancy1748
incoincidence?1798
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inaccordancy1817
incorrespondency1817
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divergence1837
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 35 Þis seventy..translated þe lawe wiþ oute discorde of wordes oþer of menynge.
c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 179 Two þinges þat ben diuerse propirly..if þer be discord bytwene hem tweyn, They mow not be þe seluen and þe same.
1520 Chron. Eng. iv. f. 37/1 For the dyscorde of the paschal tyme he called a counsell in Alexander.
1548 J. Rogers tr. P. Melanchthon Waying & Considering of Interim sig. A.viiv The discord of the learning and certen ceremonies will neuerthelesse abyde.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 60 Merry, and tragicall..How shall we find the concord Of this discord ? View more context for this quotation
1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes II. §49 Nothing makes so strong and mortall hostility, as discord in religions.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xvii. 58 Our understandings were intangled with the disorder and discord of our desires.
1705 D. Defoe Dyet Poland 15 The Discord of his Faculties is plain.
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 283 All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee..All Discord, Harmony not understood.
1789 S. Horsley Princ. Vitality in Man 7 The discordance of these errors is mistaken for a discord of the truths, on which they are severally grafted.
1838 Brit. Critic Jan. 22 Is there..any discord between the wailings of a contrite heart, and the accents of joyfulness and hope, [etc.].
1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1041/1 The relations of the Church to the government of Baden..were entirely at discord with his own views.
1913 Polit. Sci. Q. 28 323 The discord of ideas which make up our present pluralistic outlook.
2001 D. Groothuis Christian Apologetics v. 100 Galileo..was a confessing Christian who discerned no discord between the Bible and natural science.
3.
a. Music.† (d) The interval between two notes forming a discord; any interval except the unison, octave, perfect fifth and fourth, major and minor thirds, and major and minor sixths (and the octaves of these). Obsolete. rare.
(a) Lack of harmony between two or more musical notes sounded together; dissonance; an instance of this.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > lack of harmony
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mistone1813
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xxi. 500 Soune of þe neþir bodies makiþ no discord in þe melodye of þe ouer bodies [L. nec grauitas inferiorum dissonam reddit melodiam superiorum].
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 122 Dyscorde yn songe, dissonancia.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xiiii. f. 24v He was..a louer of musike, specially in good voyce and instrumentes, and soore displeased if he harde any discorde therin.
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. §1 Oftentimes a dischorde in Musick maketh a comely concordaunce.
1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 79 A Discord..is the mixture of diuers sounds, naturally offending the eares.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 6 If he compact of iarres, grow Musicall, We shall haue shortly discord in the Spheares. View more context for this quotation
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 229 As in Musick, what is Discord in particular and separately considered, will be Harmony upon the whole.
1762 T. Sheridan Course Lect. Elocution 192 Some..may learn a few tunes by ear, but the generality will produce nothing but discord, like those who touch the keys of an harpsicord at random.
1839 Penny Mag. 16 Feb. 64/1 If one note remained sounding when the next following note is being produced, the two would be heard together, and would be very likely to produce discord.
1864 Proc. Royal Soc. 13 393 Beats from 10 to 70 may be considered as discordant, and as the source of all discord in music.
1901 Science 20 Sept. 456/1 If the number of beats is fewer than 10 per second, they are not agreeable, but do not produce discord.
1978 Q. Jrnl. Libr. Congr. July 150/2 Raskin's musical discord is a gesture of considerable musical-dramatic significance.
1998 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 8 Apr. 28 This short piece was quite interesting, creating contradictory reactions from a structured use of discord through repetition and partial resolution into more pleasing harmonics.
(b) A combination of two or more notes not in harmony with each other; a chord which by itself is unpleasing or unsatisfactory to the ear, and which generally requires to be resolved or followed by some other chord. Opposed to concord n.1 5.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > discord
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1582 T. Lupton Christian against Iesuite f. 64 Euen so two notes distant in the seuenth place one from another, is a merueilous discorde in musicke called a seuenth.
1642 R. Baker tr. V. Malvezzi Disc. upon Tacitus l. 478 Musicians will not make a passage from a Discord (as a seventh) to a perfect Concord, as a fifth, without passing first to a sixth.
c1700 in Music Theory Spectrum (1994) 16 48/1 The 7th bar may begin with a discord wch is here a 7th wch is followed by a 5th in a very short note.
1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 61 They make a mixture or compound sound, which the ear receives with displeasure,..called a Discord.
1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music i. 55 An adept..might give his scientific hearers supreme pleasure by his skilful manner of resolving his discords.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Resolution of Discords, the resolution of a discord is the conversion of the note which forms the discord into a concordant note in the next chord.
1881 G. A. Macfarren Counterpoint (ed. 3) i. 2 A discord is a chord that is unsatisfactory in itself, or it is a note foreign to the prevailing harmony.
1926 J. A. Fuller-Maitland Spell of Music x. 83 From the reasonable resolution of a discord up to the convolutions of a fugue.
2002 P. D. Roberts in L. Sitsky Music Twentieth-cent. Avant-garde 342 Obukhov..would sometimes have each line filled out by a discord.
(c) A single note which is dissonant with another, or with the other notes of a chord.
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1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke ii. 79 The second part of the note is a Discord, and therefore it cannot be two eights seeing they are not both togither.
1636 C. Butler Princ. Musik i. iii. 65 Ðe Not's đat ar bound in Syncope, ar eiđer Discords, or secundari Concords.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The same Note which becomes the Discord is first a Concord to the Bass-Note immediately preceding that to which it is a Discord.
1817 J. S. Hawkins Inq. Nature & Princ. Thorough Bass xx. 80 After the chord of the second, fourth, and sixth, the bass note, being a discord, always descends one degree.
1854 M. C. Clarke tr. C.-S. Catel Treat. Harmony vii. 16/1 The prolonged note is a discord which must descend by one degree, either in the chord itself..or in the following chord.
1915 Chicago Sunday Tribune 11 July viii. 8/1 A blue note is a sour note... It's a discord—a harmonic discord.
2006 L. Golan Bach 79 The major justification for the upper note/on-the-beat trill in Baroque music is that the upper note is a discord and the main note is the resolution of that discord.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun]
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1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 16 All other distances reckoned from the Basse are Discords.
b. figurative. A jarring or unharmonious effect recalling or likened to that of a discord in music; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > instance of
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1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man i. f. 9 But while they studye to folowe bothe oure doctrines: they of all other do make the greattest discorde and vnperfect musike.
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 46 My harmonious Pulse beats nothing but melodious Discords, to the tune of the Crosse and the Harpe.
1774 C. Anstey Priest Dissected (ed. 2) 17 This self-made monarch of a day,..to sweet freedom's ever-soothing note, Joins the harsh discord of his patriot throat.
1845 L. M. Child Lett. from N.Y. 2nd Ser. II. xii. 120 They might all be as harmonious as the instruments of a good orchestra; but terrible discord arises from the supposition of each one that it engrosses truth to itself.
1878 J. P. Hopps Life Jesus viii. 30 He had silenced the discords of passion in his own breast.
1921 F. Dell Briary-bush xxvii. 197 He..was doubtless expected by his infatuated bride to bring music out of this discord!
1991 A. Enright Portable Virgin (1992) 161 O' Donnel..was born with a magic thumb, the sucking of which enabled him to discern the music of a good pint from the discord of a bad.
4. Lack of harmony between sounds; harsh or unpleasant noise; a jarring or grating sound. Frequently with allusion to sense 3.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun] > sound
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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xiiii. 105 To haue giuen him the sharpe accent & plucked it fro the sillable..it had bene to any mans eare a great discord.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 117 I neuer heard So musicall a discord, such sweete thunder. View more context for this quotation
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. I4v There remaines no discord that can sound Harsh accents to the eare of our accord.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 210 Arms on Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding Wheeles Of brazen Chariots rag'd. View more context for this quotation
1714 Ladies Libr. I. 189 This terrible Discord [sc. an oath from a woman's mouth] has some exalted Names introduc'd in the Musick of the British Language.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. v. 148 The bravura of La Motte, whose notes sounded discord to his ears.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iv. 45 The balmiest sigh..Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. iv. 69 The very sight, the very voice of a Colonna, was a blight to his eye and a discord to his ear.
1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness ii, in Youth 115 A complaining clamour, modulated in savage discords, filled our ears.
1936 L. R. Hubbard Sky-crasher in Five-novels Monthly Jan. 76/2 The motors bellowed in jarring discord.
2011 A. Berry Water Children xxiii. 289 The spoons had scraped the china like chalk squeaking discord on a blackboard.
Compounds
Objective and instrumental, forming nouns and adjectives, as discord-maker, discord-wasted, etc.
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1772 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (rev. ed.) iii. 111 Thou discord making fiend!
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iv. 49 The discord-wasted land.
1846 Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Mag. 5 254 He drove away the incorrigible discord-makers and mended those who stayed.
1868 Musical Standard 24 Oct. 161/1 The harmony..is sufficiently disconnected and unpleasant to satisfy the most liberal minded of discord-mongers.
1916 Boston Sunday Globe 23 Jan. 5/3 Then the crowd of discord lovers rose.
2011 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 July c10 It's tempting to conclude that..the ditzy, discord-sowing Smurfette..reeks of misogyny.
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discordadj.
/ˈdɪskɔːd/, U.S. /ˈdɪˌskɔrd/ Now somewhat rare.
= discordant adj. (esp. in sense 2a).
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective]
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inaccordant1822
uncorresponding1826
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non-concurring1866
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disharmonic1887
non-concurrent1907
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > inharmonious or unmelodious
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callithumpian1886
tinny1904
crunchy1959
c1415 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Lansd.) (1877) §818 Vnmesurable & discorde [c1405 Ellesmere desordeynee, c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 disordeyned] couetise.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xvi. xiii For musike doth sette in all unyte The discorde thynges whiche are variable.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. Ep. Ded. In Musicke, manie discord notes and manie tunes make one consent.
1686 H. Grenfield God in Creature 102 Mercy and Judgment sing, how they in thee, By discord Notes, most lovingly agree.
1740 E. King Let. 20 Nov. in J. Martyn tr. Virgil Georgicks (1741) (end matter) 1/2 The chirping, whistling, discord notes of various other birds divert the undistinguishing ear from attending to the single part of the musical nightingale.
1857 Masonic Rev. Apr. 21 Let no discord note of sadness..be heard.
1881 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 8 Apr. 453/1 The high and low notes..will produce a discord sound.
a1910 J. Goddard Rise & Devel. Opera (1911) xviii. 189 Every note of the scale may bear a common chord and a discord chord of the seventh.
2011 M. Flynn In Lion's Mouth 58 Play, harper, and..with your chords catch out the discord note.
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discordv.1
/dɪˈskɔːd/, U.S. /ˌdɪˈskɔrd/ 1. intransitive. Of two or more people: to disagree, differ; to be at variance, to quarrel. Of one person: to dissent from (or †fro), or disagree or quarrel with, another. Now rare.
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society > society and the community > dissent > be in dissension or at variance [verb (intransitive)]
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Eccles. Prol. 53 The Seuenti Remenoures..not myche fro Ebrues..discordeden.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23640 (MED) Wit alkin scaf þai sal discord.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 72 (MED) Þer ben manye men þat discorden of dietynge of men þat ben woundid.
1459 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1909) V. 82 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 4600) XXV. 1 Qwar that thai discord amang thaim self of the departesyng of the..landis.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxix. 6 With thaim that discordis fra the charite of halikyrke i held anhede.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xxv. f. x Here dyscordyth myn Auctour with some other wryters.
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 275 (heading) How the Lordis of Scotland discordit at the Huntis.
c1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 26 Be quhat occatioun thay discordit can no man tell.
1614 Bp. W. Cowper Dikaiologie 94 Vpon condition they had a Christian King..with them, they would be loath to discord with him for this matter of externall gouernement.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 404 The human wil cannot discord from the Divine.
a1714 Earl of Cromarty Hist. Family Mackenzie in W. Fraser Earls of Cromartie (1876) II. 476 On McLean..haid discordit with Kenneth some few dayes befor at gameing.
1761 J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council & Session 1678–1712 II. 446 The Jewish Sanhedrim, though highly enraged against our Saviour, yet would not proceed on witnesses discording amongst themselves.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlv. 407 They discorded with her.
a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 124 We discorded commonly on two points.
1900 A. McAulay Rhymer v. 28 Ay, they [sc. a married couple] discorded, to be sure.
2010 Financial Daily (Pakistan) (Nexis) 7 Mar. (headline) PM, President discording on finance advisor.
2.
a. intransitive. Of a thing or (occasionally) a person: to be different †from or †fro, or discordant or inconsistent with something or someone else.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > be unharmonious or incongruous [verb (intransitive)]
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to agree (etc.) like harp and harrow1563
antipathizec1630
to jump awry1762
disharmonize1863
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (N.Y. Publ. Lib.) (1850) Rom. Prol. 299 He [sc. Paul] wolde shewen the newe to not discorden fro the olde testament.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) iii. 14 His will discordis with his witt.
1559 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus Complaint of Peace sig. Biij The Logicians maketh warre with the Rhetoricien, & the Diuine doth dyscorde with the Lawer.
1608 S. Hieron 2nd Pt. Def. Ministers Reasons 166 Not because it accordeth or discordeth with the original.
1680 in J. F. Houpreght Aurifontina Chymica 180 Our Medicine is..one thing in kind, and not divers things, of whom all Metals be made; and so it is no Salts, nor Waters,..nor none such things that discord from Metals.
1793 Hapless Orphan II. xcvii. 162 The gravity of this epistle, though it would discord with a vague, and a fashionable mind, I am convinced will beat in unison to that of my friend.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 484 The party, the views of which were apt to discord with those of the leading members of the government.
1898 M. M. Dowie Crook of Bough xix. 221 The pleasant cheerful tone discorded with the dark.
1912 I. A. R. Wylie Daughter of Brahma iv. iv. 336 In dress, in bearing.., he discorded with his surroundings.
2003 F. Schick Ambiguity & Logic 68 They could have chosen without hesitation, for their choice would not have discorded with anything they wanted to do.
b. intransitive. Of two or more things: to differ; to be incongruent or inconsistent with each other. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > be different [verb (intransitive)]
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ablude1610
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to stand offa1616
particularize1637
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deviate1692
to stand apart1709
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to be a long way from1917
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 443 Hit semeþ þat stories discordeþ [L. dissonare] þat telleþ of þis Brute his fader.
c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 1241 (MED) Thire two last preceptes semes to discorde in nothing.
c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 133 Full dyuersly Descordeth lo þe sentence of thei[re] [my]nde [MS thei ende], [Yit] alle thise consenten at one ende.
1502 Charter Edinb. Reg. House No. 642 Thus the ratour and precept of sasyn discordis in thaimself.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxv. f. xxviiv Thyse .ii. Nacions discorde in maners, but nat in clothyng and in fayth.
1659 tr. R. Fludd Mosaicall Philos. ii. iii. 254 This flight from one another, or hatred between them, ariseth from the evill position or application of natures, discording in their genuine order, [etc.].
1858 Mother's Mag. Aug. 190 Take we good heed..that our inner life and outward actions do not discord.
1883 Garden 13 Jan. 22/1 If they [sc. colours] discord, that discord is reduced in intensity if the colours are not allowed to touch.
2001 D. Wittenberg Philos., Revision, Critique i. 25 Art and truth will belong together in Nietzsche's text all the more because they discord.
3. intransitive. Of sound: to be discordant or dissonant; to jar, clash. Frequently with with. Now rare.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (intransitive)]
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxxi. 1387 Simphonia is temperate modulacioun, acording in sownes hiȝ and lowȝ. And by þis armony hiȝe vois acordeþ so þat if oon discordeþ [L. dissonuerit] it grieueþ þe hieryng.
a1416 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Bodl. 953) cl. 4 Acorde, as of diuerse voyces nouȝt discordyng, is a swete songe.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 122 Dyscordyn yn sownde, or syngynge, dissono, deliro.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie D 697 To discorde or disagree in tune.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §227 But Sounds do disturb and alter one the other..Sometimes the one jarring or discording with the other and making a confusion.
1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 341/1 The proper discords then being concords in themselves, the figure, or figures, discording with the bass note, will distinguish each of these.
1896 A. Daniell Physics for Students of Med. v. 217 Two notes may thus produce a painful impression when sounded together, and are then said to discord with one another.
1935 ‘C. Steele’ Hosts of Flaming Death (2008) i. 13 An irregular throbbing as of airplane exhausts discording together.
4. transitive. To make discordant; to put out of harmony. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > produce musical sound [verb (transitive)] > make unmelodious
discord?c1400
dissonate1961
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. pr. xii. l. 2898 Þe same diuersite of hire natures þat so discordeden þat oon fro þat oþer most[e] departen and vnioignen þe þinges þat ben conioigned.
c1450 (?c1425) E. Hull tr. Seven Psalms (1995) 58 Sche made of hym a true avokat for-to a-cord here to þe grete mercy of God, by whom sche was by-fore dyscordyd from þe pesse of Godde and made nyhe to hys wretthe.
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 42 They adventure not to play upon that string..for fear of discording all the rest of their harmonie.
1641 J. Thornborough Disc. Great Happiness 222 As a little jarre in musicke, a little intention or remission of any one string discordeth all the harmony.
1752 W. Goodall Adventures Capt. Greenland II. viii. 66 It is very possible she might have manifested her Disapprobation in such manner, as might have discorded all their present Harmony.
1871 A. Forbes My Experiences War France & Germany II. 362 A concerted shrill whistle that drowned or discorded the music of the bands.
1925 R. Halliburton Royal Road to Romance xxii. 237 Assuming our most jovial air for fear of discording his musical humor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† discordv.2
Farriery. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To return (a herniated section of intestine) to the abdominal cavity. Cf. incorded adj., incord v.In quot. the transitivity of the verb is ambiguous.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > practise veterinary medicine and surgery [verb (transitive)] > give specific treatment > to horse
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mallein1915
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1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. cv. f. 77v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Worke downe the gut into the body of the horse, by stryking it downewarde continuallye wyth your two thombs,..vntyll you perceyue that syde of the stone to be so small as the other, and hauing so discorded, that is to say returned the gutte into his right place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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