单词 | disconformity |
释义 | disconformityn.ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish tachec1330 vicec1386 flakec1400 plotc1400 offencec1425 defectc1450 disconformity1505 defection1526 blemish1535 fitch1550 blot1578 flaw1604 tainta1616 mulct1632 smitch1638 scarring1816 out1886 1505 F. Marsin et al. Rep. Queen of Naples (modernized text) in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 235 Of so noble a nature and complexion, having in her person no disconformity nor cause of sickness. 2. Lack of conformity or correspondence; disagreement, difference; inconsistency, discrepancy; (also) failure or refusal to conform. Also: an instance of this. Frequently with to, with, between, etc. Cf. nonconformity n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [noun] difformity1530 disconformity1572 inconformity1594 unconformitya1600 incompliance1656 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > inconsistency or contradiction repugnancec1443 contrariety1483 repugnancya1500 inconstance1529 contrariosity1540 inconstancy1565 contradictiona1571 disconformity1572 inconsistence1643 inconsistentness1647 inconsistibility1650 inconsistency1651 1572 G. Fenton tr. E. Pasquier Monophylo ii. f. 12v If [love]..shoulde want on eyther side, (a thing likely to happen, eyther by a preuention of some other, or by a disconformitie in the persons [Fr. ou bien que les personnes ne nous plaisent]) [etc.]. 1586 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) I. 237 Complaintis maid..anentt the disconformitie and difference of the wechtis and mesouris. 1602 W. Segar Honor Mil. & Civill iii. xliv. 178 The Cardinals..were seuenteene, whose disconformitie continued the seat voyd almost three yeeres. a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) i. 13 He thus excuses his disconformity with Rome in the keeping of Easter. a1680 J. Corbet Humble Endeavour (1683) ii. xvi. 24 [It] hath necessarily, in the manner of it, a disconformity to Gods Law. 1737 T. Morgan Moral Philosopher 68 No Acts of Disobedience or Disconformity to the Law of his Country could be clearly prov'd or made out against him. 1793 Trial Fyshe Palmer 16 As to the disconformity in the copy of the Indictment. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. v. 186 Practices..forced into a disconformity with their ancient institutions. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. vi. §1 Conformity or disconformity to usage or convention. 1924 J. Ryan Introd. Philos. vii. 235 Error is..a positive disconformity between the content of thought and the nature of the object which it pretends to express. 2011 Res. Consumer Behavior 13 179 Although he mentions that he values disconformity as well, it appears that he still conforms to the culture. 3. Geology. An unconformity between two parallel, approximately horizontal sets of strata, the lower set having undergone erosion but not deformation before the upper set was deposited. Cf. disconformable adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] discordance1823 unconformity1863 disconformity1906 1906 A. W. Grabau in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 17 569 Generally this kind of overlap implies some erosion of the underlying concordant formations, thus producing a disconformity. 1925 W. J. Miller Introd. Physical Geol. vi. 137 If..two sets of beds separated by an erosion surface have their stratification surfaces practically parallel, there is a more or less deceptive unconformity called a disconformity. 1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. i. 3/1 The limestones were followed in many areas by disconformities on which greensand accumulated. 2009 J. S. Monroe & R. Wicander Changing Earth (ed. 5) xvii. 441/2 Many disconformities are difficult to recognize and must be identified on the basis of fossil assemblages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1505 |
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