harmonyn.

Brit.

/ˈhɑːməni/, U.S.

/ˈhɑrməni/

Forms: Middle English–1500s armonie, armony(e, (Middle English armeny, ermony), 1500s harmonye, 1500s–1600s harmonie, 1500s– harmony.

Etymology: < French harmonie (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), = Provençal, Spanish, Italian armonia, < Latin harmonia, < Greek ἁρμονία joining, joint, agreement, concord of sounds, music, < stem ἁρμο- of ἁρμός joint, ἁρμόζειν to fit together, arrange.

a. Combination or adaptation of parts, elements, or related things, so as to form a consistent and orderly whole; agreement, accord, congruity. pre-established harmony, in the philosophy of Leibniz, a harmony between mind and matter, e.g. between the body and soul, established before their creation, whereby their actions correspond though no communication exists between them.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]

accordmentc1330

accorda1398

consonancya1398

unitya1398

accordancea1400

commoningc1400

convenience1413

correspondence1413

answeringc1425

conformityc1430

consonance1430

congruity1447

concordancec1450

consonantc1475

agreement1495

monochordc1500

conveniencya1513

agreeance1525

agreeableness1531

concinnity1531

congruence1533

harmony?1533

concent1563

tunableness1569

agreeing1575

answerableness1577

concert1578

consent1578

sympathy1578

concord1579

symphonia1579

correspondency1589

atone1595

coherence1597

respondence1598

symphony1598

sortance1600

coherency1603

respondency1603

symbolizing1605

coaptation1614

compositiona1616

sympathizing1632

comportance1648

compliance1649

syntax1649

concinneness1655

symmetry1655

homology1656

consistency1659

consentaneousness1660

consistence1670

comportment1675

harmoniousness1679

symbolism1722

congruousness1727

accordancy1790

sameness1790

consentaneity1798

consilience1840

chime1847

consensus1854

solidarity1874

synchromesh1966

concordancing1976

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of optimism > [noun] > Leibniz' philosophy of optimism and its adherents > elements of

(principle or law of) sufficient reason1656

possible worlda1674

pre-established harmony1725

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Cciii ^v Others haue sayd that it [the operation of God] is a maner of armonie.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxxviii. 75 The soule it selfe by nature is, or hath in it harmonie.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F1 The harmonie of a science supporting each part the other, is..the true and briefe confutation..of all the smaller sort of obiections.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. ii. 31 Here is a harmony of business, and every thing exact.

1814 R. Southey Roderick xxi. 382 To heavenliest harmony Reduce the seeming chaos.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxiv. 353 Where other forces mingle with that of crystallization, this harmony of action is destroyed.

1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 273 His [sc. Leibnitz's] favourite hypothesis of a Pre-established Harmony (borrowed from Spinoza).

b. in harmony: in agreement or accordance, consistent, congruous. So out of harmony.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > in agreement or harmony (with) [phrase]

in onea1400

according1523

in unison1604

of a piece1607

in concert1618

in consort1634

in tone1647

at unison1661

of a piece with1665

true1735

in suit with1797

in harmony1816

of a suit with1886

in tune1887

in key1919

tuned in1958

all-of-a-piece1960

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > out of harmony [phrase]

out of tune1535

at variance1709

out of character1782

out of harmony1853

1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 42 He may always be sure of finding nature in harmony with herself.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 149 This mode of attack..was in perfect harmony with every part of his infamous life.

1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. i. 11 The vox populi was the vox Dei even when the two voices seemed most utterly out of harmony.

a. Agreement of feeling or sentiment; peaceableness, concord. (Sometimes as figurative from 4.)

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [noun] > concord

sibsomenesseOE

somec1000

somrednessa1250

accordc1275

onehead1340

unityc1384

concordc1386

accordance1388

union?1435

onement1454

greement1483

agreeance1525

agreement1529

atonementa1535

onenessa1575

onehood?1578

harmony1588

agreea1592

unison1606

commodation1643

bon-accordc1650

unisoniety1663

regalia1745

at-oneness1877

1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. C4 Coueting no other companion but sorrowe, nor no other harmonie, but repentance.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 605 Harmonie to behold in wedded pair More grateful then harmonious sound to the eare.

1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 140 Love, joy, and peace make harmony more meet.

1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. viii. 408 The harmony which had thus been re-established with the Court of Baroda.

b. Harmony Society n. see harmonist n. 4.

ΚΠ

1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects Harmony Society, a community formed in 1805 by..George Rapp, on the principle of having all things common.

3. Combination of parts or details in accord with each other, so as to produce an aesthetically pleasing effect; agreeable aspect arising from apt arrangement of parts.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [noun] > pleasantness to the aesthetic sense

sweetnessa1568

harmony1650

sweetness and light1867

aesthetic1926

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 86 To make up the perfect harmony of a Face.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. iv. 111 How pleasing the harmony between hills and woods, between rivers and lawns?

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator iii. 192 Harmony results from an agreeable contrast.

a. The combination of musical notes, either simultaneous or successive, so as to produce a pleasing effect; melody; music, tuneful sound. (The earliest sense in English; in modern use more or less associated with sense 5) harmony of the spheres: see sphere n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > beauty of sound or melody

melodyc1300

harmonyc1384

sweetness1398

melodiousness1530

tunableness1561

well-sounding1594

air1597

chime1608

suavity1614

melos1740

songfulness1850

tunefulness1882

tuniness1905

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 306 Songes ful of Armonye.

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) v. viii. 99 The trees folowed him [Orpheus] and the stremes stoden to heren his armony.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xx. sig. Kiii^v Dauid..playinge swetelye on a harpe, with his pleasant & perfect harmonie, reduced his [Saul's] minde in to his pristinate estate.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 18 What harmony is this? my good friends, harke.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 560 Ten thousand Harpes that tun'd Angelic harmonies .

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 110 Inraptured with the harmony of a choir of angels.

1835 W. Wordsworth Stanzas Power of Sound xiv, in Yarrow Revisited 322 Harmony, blest Queen of smiles and tears.

b. gen. Pleasing combination or arrangement of sounds, as in poetry or in speaking; sweet or melodious sound.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [noun] > musical or harmonious quality

concorda1340

harmony1528

consonance1594

balance1929

1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Bii^v For all his armony In metricall muses.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 14 Somewhat solaced in hearing the sweete harmony of her name.

1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 701 Harmony, strength, words exquisitely sought.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Milton O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies.

1876 tr. P. Blaserna Theory Sound iii. 46 The poets speak often, and not without reason, of the harmony of the waves.

5. Music. The combination of (simultaneous) notes so as to form chords; that part of musical art or science which deals with the formation and relations of chords; the structure of a piece of music in relation to the chords of which it consists.Distinguished from melody, which is the succession of notes forming an air or tune; and, in strict modern use, from counterpoint, which is the combination of melodies; but also used of any music in parts, and sometimes in early use synonymous with counterpoint.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun]

harmony1526

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. gvi They excede or passe all ioyes, as moche as armony passeth melody.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Harmonie, delightfull musicke of many notes.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Harmonical, The Art of Harmony has long been known under the Name of Counterpoint.

1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 451 Figurative Harmony, consisting of three or four different melodies moving together in consonance.

1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony i. 19 Singing in harmony of three parts.

1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Musical Form i. 2 A knowledge of Harmony and Counterpoint.

1879 G. A. Macfarren Counterpoint (1881) i. 2 Harmony is the simultaneous sounding of several notes, and includes concords and discords.

6. A collation of passages on the same subject from different writings, arranged so as to exhibit their agreement and account for their discrepancies; now chiefly used of a work showing the correspondences between the four Gospels and the chronological succession of the events recorded in them.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > collation of parallel passages

harmony1588

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 6 The Harmonie of the Confessions of all those Churches..Which Harmonie was translated and printed by..Thomas Thomas.

1607 A. Willet (title) An Harmonie vpon the First Booke of Samvel..diuers readings compared, [etc.].

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Evangelical Harmony is used as the Title of divers Books, composed to shew the Uniformity and Agreement of the four Evangelists.

1732 Harley (title) An Essay for composing a Harmony between the Psalms and other parts of Scripture.

1756 J. Macknight (title) Harmony of the four Gospels.

1896 W. F. Adeney How to read the Bible 108 A ‘harmony’ of the Gospels is an attempt to arrange the several contributions of the four evangelists, so that they shall all fall into their right places in a common story.

7. Anatomy. = harmonia n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > types of joint > [noun]

seamc1050

commissure?a1425

arthrodia1565

commissary1577

gomphosis1578

inarticulation1578

suture1578

symphysis1578

synarthrosis1578

adarticulation1615

harmony1615

synchondrosis1615

enarthrosis1634

harmonia1657

mortise-articulation1658

ball and socket1664

synneurosis1676

syssarcosis1676

ginglymus1678

syndesmosis1726

ginglymus1733

hinge-joint1802

screw-joint1810

schindylesis1830

amphiarthrosis1835

pivot joint1848

synosteosis1848

synostosis1848

indigitation1849

screwed-surfaced joint1875

thorough-joint1889

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 443 It..is distinguished from the wedge bone by the bastard seame called a Harmony, which is accounted for the ninth Suture.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) Man. iv. v. 340 There are..in the Skul, also many harmonies, where the bones are joyned together.

1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xv. 239 A species of ‘harmony’, as it is technically termed by anatomists; two plates of the skeleton being accurately and immoveably fitted to each other, but without being decidedly fastened together by serrated edges.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	harmony
释义	harmonyn. Brit. /ˈhɑːməni/, U.S. /ˈhɑrməni/ Forms: Middle English–1500s armonie, armony(e, (Middle English armeny, ermony), 1500s harmonye, 1500s–1600s harmonie, 1500s– harmony. Etymology: < French harmonie (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), = Provençal, Spanish, Italian armonia, < Latin harmonia, < Greek ἁρμονία joining, joint, agreement, concord of sounds, music, < stem ἁρμο- of ἁρμός joint, ἁρμόζειν to fit together, arrange. 1. a. Combination or adaptation of parts, elements, or related things, so as to form a consistent and orderly whole; agreement, accord, congruity. pre-established harmony, in the philosophy of Leibniz, a harmony between mind and matter, e.g. between the body and soul, established before their creation, whereby their actions correspond though no communication exists between them. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] accordmentc1330 accorda1398 consonancya1398 unitya1398 accordancea1400 commoningc1400 convenience1413 correspondence1413 answeringc1425 conformityc1430 consonance1430 congruity1447 concordancec1450 consonantc1475 agreement1495 monochordc1500 conveniencya1513 agreeance1525 agreeableness1531 concinnity1531 congruence1533 harmony?1533 concent1563 tunableness1569 agreeing1575 answerableness1577 concert1578 consent1578 sympathy1578 concord1579 symphonia1579 correspondency1589 atone1595 coherence1597 respondence1598 symphony1598 sortance1600 coherency1603 respondency1603 symbolizing1605 coaptation1614 compositiona1616 sympathizing1632 comportance1648 compliance1649 syntax1649 concinneness1655 symmetry1655 homology1656 consistency1659 consentaneousness1660 consistence1670 comportment1675 harmoniousness1679 symbolism1722 congruousness1727 accordancy1790 sameness1790 consentaneity1798 consilience1840 chime1847 consensus1854 solidarity1874 synchromesh1966 concordancing1976 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of optimism > [noun] > Leibniz' philosophy of optimism and its adherents > elements of (principle or law of) sufficient reason1656 possible worlda1674 pre-established harmony1725 ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Cciii ^v Others haue sayd that it [the operation of God] is a maner of armonie. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxxviii. 75 The soule it selfe by nature is, or hath in it harmonie. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F1 The harmonie of a science supporting each part the other, is..the true and briefe confutation..of all the smaller sort of obiections. View more context for this quotation 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. ii. 31 Here is a harmony of business, and every thing exact. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xxi. 382 To heavenliest harmony Reduce the seeming chaos. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxiv. 353 Where other forces mingle with that of crystallization, this harmony of action is destroyed. 1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 273 His [sc. Leibnitz's] favourite hypothesis of a Pre-established Harmony (borrowed from Spinoza). b. in harmony: in agreement or accordance, consistent, congruous. So out of harmony. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > in agreement or harmony (with) [phrase] in onea1400 according1523 in unison1604 of a piece1607 in concert1618 in consort1634 in tone1647 at unison1661 of a piece with1665 true1735 in suit with1797 in harmony1816 of a suit with1886 in tune1887 in key1919 tuned in1958 all-of-a-piece1960 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > out of harmony [phrase] out of tune1535 at variance1709 out of character1782 out of harmony1853 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 42 He may always be sure of finding nature in harmony with herself. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 149 This mode of attack..was in perfect harmony with every part of his infamous life. 1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. i. 11 The vox populi was the vox Dei even when the two voices seemed most utterly out of harmony. 2. a. Agreement of feeling or sentiment; peaceableness, concord. (Sometimes as figurative from 4.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [noun] > concord sibsomenesseOE somec1000 somrednessa1250 accordc1275 onehead1340 unityc1384 concordc1386 accordance1388 union?1435 onement1454 greement1483 agreeance1525 agreement1529 atonementa1535 onenessa1575 onehood?1578 harmony1588 agreea1592 unison1606 commodation1643 bon-accordc1650 unisoniety1663 regalia1745 at-oneness1877 1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. C4 Coueting no other companion but sorrowe, nor no other harmonie, but repentance. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 605 Harmonie to behold in wedded pair More grateful then harmonious sound to the eare. View more context for this quotation 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 140 Love, joy, and peace make harmony more meet. 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. viii. 408 The harmony which had thus been re-established with the Court of Baroda. b. Harmony Society n. see harmonist n. 4. ΚΠ 1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects Harmony Society, a community formed in 1805 by..George Rapp, on the principle of having all things common. 3. Combination of parts or details in accord with each other, so as to produce an aesthetically pleasing effect; agreeable aspect arising from apt arrangement of parts. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [noun] > pleasantness to the aesthetic sense sweetnessa1568 harmony1650 sweetness and light1867 aesthetic1926 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 86 To make up the perfect harmony of a Face. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. iv. 111 How pleasing the harmony between hills and woods, between rivers and lawns? 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator iii. 192 Harmony results from an agreeable contrast. 4. a. The combination of musical notes, either simultaneous or successive, so as to produce a pleasing effect; melody; music, tuneful sound. (The earliest sense in English; in modern use more or less associated with sense 5) harmony of the spheres: see sphere n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > beauty of sound or melody melodyc1300 harmonyc1384 sweetness1398 melodiousness1530 tunableness1561 well-sounding1594 air1597 chime1608 suavity1614 melos1740 songfulness1850 tunefulness1882 tuniness1905 c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 306 Songes ful of Armonye. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) v. viii. 99 The trees folowed him [Orpheus] and the stremes stoden to heren his armony. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xx. sig. Kiii^v Dauid..playinge swetelye on a harpe, with his pleasant & perfect harmonie, reduced his [Saul's] minde in to his pristinate estate. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 18 What harmony is this? my good friends, harke. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 560 Ten thousand Harpes that tun'd Angelic harmonies . View more context for this quotation 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 110 Inraptured with the harmony of a choir of angels. 1835 W. Wordsworth Stanzas Power of Sound xiv, in Yarrow Revisited 322 Harmony, blest Queen of smiles and tears. b. gen. Pleasing combination or arrangement of sounds, as in poetry or in speaking; sweet or melodious sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [noun] > musical or harmonious quality concorda1340 harmony1528 consonance1594 balance1929 1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Bii^v For all his armony In metricall muses. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 14 Somewhat solaced in hearing the sweete harmony of her name. 1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 701 Harmony, strength, words exquisitely sought. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Milton O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies. 1876 tr. P. Blaserna Theory Sound iii. 46 The poets speak often, and not without reason, of the harmony of the waves. 5. Music. The combination of (simultaneous) notes so as to form chords; that part of musical art or science which deals with the formation and relations of chords; the structure of a piece of music in relation to the chords of which it consists.Distinguished from melody, which is the succession of notes forming an air or tune; and, in strict modern use, from counterpoint, which is the combination of melodies; but also used of any music in parts, and sometimes in early use synonymous with counterpoint. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] harmony1526 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. gvi They excede or passe all ioyes, as moche as armony passeth melody. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Harmonie, delightfull musicke of many notes. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Harmonical, The Art of Harmony has long been known under the Name of Counterpoint. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 451 Figurative Harmony, consisting of three or four different melodies moving together in consonance. 1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony i. 19 Singing in harmony of three parts. 1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Musical Form i. 2 A knowledge of Harmony and Counterpoint. 1879 G. A. Macfarren Counterpoint (1881) i. 2 Harmony is the simultaneous sounding of several notes, and includes concords and discords. 6. A collation of passages on the same subject from different writings, arranged so as to exhibit their agreement and account for their discrepancies; now chiefly used of a work showing the correspondences between the four Gospels and the chronological succession of the events recorded in them. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > collation of parallel passages harmony1588 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 6 The Harmonie of the Confessions of all those Churches..Which Harmonie was translated and printed by..Thomas Thomas. 1607 A. Willet (title) An Harmonie vpon the First Booke of Samvel..diuers readings compared, [etc.]. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Evangelical Harmony is used as the Title of divers Books, composed to shew the Uniformity and Agreement of the four Evangelists. 1732 Harley (title) An Essay for composing a Harmony between the Psalms and other parts of Scripture. 1756 J. Macknight (title) Harmony of the four Gospels. 1896 W. F. Adeney How to read the Bible 108 A ‘harmony’ of the Gospels is an attempt to arrange the several contributions of the four evangelists, so that they shall all fall into their right places in a common story. 7. Anatomy. = harmonia n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > types of joint > [noun] seamc1050 commissure?a1425 arthrodia1565 commissary1577 gomphosis1578 inarticulation1578 suture1578 symphysis1578 synarthrosis1578 adarticulation1615 harmony1615 synchondrosis1615 enarthrosis1634 harmonia1657 mortise-articulation1658 ball and socket1664 synneurosis1676 syssarcosis1676 ginglymus1678 syndesmosis1726 ginglymus1733 hinge-joint1802 screw-joint1810 schindylesis1830 amphiarthrosis1835 pivot joint1848 synosteosis1848 synostosis1848 indigitation1849 screwed-surfaced joint1875 thorough-joint1889 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 443 It..is distinguished from the wedge bone by the bastard seame called a Harmony, which is accounted for the ninth Suture. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) Man. iv. v. 340 There are..in the Skul, also many harmonies, where the bones are joyned together. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xv. 239 A species of ‘harmony’, as it is technically termed by anatomists; two plates of the skeleton being accurately and immoveably fitted to each other, but without being decidedly fastened together by serrated edges. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1384
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