disconsonantadj.

1614 J. Norden Labyrinth Mans Life sig. K2 The Lawes extreames are too exorbitant That to right Reason are disconsonant.

1630 J. Taylor Elegy Bp. Andrewes in Wks. ii. 332/1 He shew'd them..How far from truth they were disconsonant.

1634 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent 7 Men, being compounded and composed all of one mould and mettle, are different and disconsonant in estates, conditions, and qualities.

1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 378 Either disconsonant from Scripture, or injurious to God.

1715 J. Chappelow Right Way to be Rich 104 How Disconsonant to the Rule of their Heavenly Father, how unlike the Pattern of the meek spirited Jesus.

1755 W. Dodd in tr. Callimachus Hymns 66/1 (note) The author is no ways disconsonant with the rest who mention these labours.

1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 407 A train of operations, disconsonant to general experience.

1880 C. J. Stone Cradle-land Arts & Creeds p. xvii Christ's doctrine not really disconsonant with the Hindu tenet and practice that all religions teach men to be good.

1937 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 58 381 A tendency to schematize the material and disregard disconsonant facts is noticeable here and there.

1995 M. C. Lemon Discipline Hist. & Hist. Thought v. 232 Those ideas which are now so disconsonant from their origins as to warrant the claim that the thinker actually ‘changed his mind’.

2006 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Feb. a25 Students who..felt that the request that they treat religious texts with reverence was disconsonant with their own deeply held beliefs.

1731 T. Sheridan Serm. St. Cæcilia's Day 20 There is as much difference between the one, and the other, as there is between the most disconsonant noises, and the most celebrated regular musick.

1767 S. Pennington Lett. III. 163 A certain arrangement of really disconsonant sounds.

1863 East London Advertiser 11 Apr. Up to the close of the sixteenth century we find that consonant chords, and certain disconsonant prolongations,..were all that were known and used in music.

1887 A. M. Fleming Winklebach's Hotel ix. 87 From the bar-room came the disconsonant notes of Professor Crawford's violin.

1907 Racine (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 9 Jan. 4/2 He gives a force, and vigor to his well phrased sentences that struck no disconsonant key note.

1968 Daily Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) 12 Oct. 15/2 One..big, disconsonant wave of unrelated noises.

2007 A. Brereton Autism 32 At around four months, he..can show a preference between consonant and disconsonant music.