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unˈconsonant, a.
[un-1 7.]
= inconsonant a. a. Const. to or with.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 33 Vnconsonand is to the veritie To do to ws so greit inormitie. a1600Hooker Serm. on Pride iv. §1 If..it be a thing most unequal and unconsonant unto justice. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. Pref., Which is not altogether unconsonant to reason. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iii. ii. (1677) 260 As his Supposition of these Semina, thus casually produc'd, seems unconsonant both to the Reason and Course of Nature. 1805Foster Ess. iv. v. 183 A certain order of opinions unconsonant, or at least not identical, with the principles of that religion. 1843in J. Hawthorne N. Hawthorne & Wife (1885) I. vi. 273 It was a magnificent comedy to watch him,..so unconsonant to what was about him.
b. Without const.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. li. §3 It seemeth a thing vnconsonant that the world should honor any other as the Sauiour but him whom it honoreth as the creator of the world. 1658Manton Exp. Jude 4 Wks. 1871 V. 167 To observe..whether we embrace it upon undue grounds, or match it with unconsonant practices. 1665J. Sergeant Sure Footing 241 If he does, he must hold it was Eternal; If not, how unconsonant is his parallel?
Hence unˈconsonantly adv.
1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. v. 128 He is gradually led on to act unconsonantly with his real nature. |