单词 | distune |
释义 | distunev. transitive. To put out of tune. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > tune [verb (transitive)] > put out of tune mistunea1523 untune1598 distune1605 disattune1853 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 327 Their Harmonie dis-tuned by His iarre. 1664 J. Wilson Andronicus Comnenius ii. iii Distune a viol, And you may set it to what tone you please. 1668 J. Flavell Saint Indeed 135 It [sc. anger] dis-tunes the Spirit for duty. 1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine iv. i. 209 A broken chord Whose jar distunes the music. 1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine i. i. 292 What thought distempers and distunes thy woe? Derivatives diˈstuned adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > [adjective] > out of tune distonedc1400 distunedc1484 mistonedc1500 untuned1592 false1597 absurd1617 mistuneda1684 off-keya1918 sour1937 off-pitch1945 c1484 W. Caxton Lyfe Our Ladye D iv/2 (R. Supp.) The clapper of his distuned belle. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. M5v Where the spirites are so destuned. 1755 Pearsall Contempl. Harvest (ed. 2) I. 177 His harp..distuned in every string. 1801 C. Lamb John Woodvil iv O most distuned and distempered world. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < v.c1484 |
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