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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 252^v Augustus..admonyshed his doughter Iulia, to marke what greate difference and oddes there was betwene twoo women of high estate.

1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. sig. a.iiij^v I am so certaine, thexcellencie of hys actes, and the basenes of my braine to be so far at oddes.

1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. ii. iii. f. 49^v Euen among the most blessed Apostles..in likenes of honour there was oddes of power.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. i. 139/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I There is an irreconciliable ods betweene them and those of the papists.

1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies To Rdr. sig. A4 Their proportion..being at too great oddes.

1631 T. May Contin. Lucan Contin. vii. 329 Twixt whom and Cæsar was as great an ods Almost, as twixt the Furies and the Gods.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xvi. 339 Though there be a manifest odds betwixt the bigness of the Diametre.

1756 M. Calderwood in Scotsman (1884) 13 Dec. 9/6 To see the odds of clergymen in one country from another..entirely puts out bigotry.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 367 Nature has made little odds among men of mature age as to strength or knowledge.

1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 80 The New England proverb says, ‘All deacons are good, but—there's odds in deacons’.

1863 J. Nicholson Kilwuddie 130 Experience mak's a' the odds betwixt the man an' bairn.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 85 Medea found a shift To feyne that Iason and hir selfe were falne at oddes in wroth.

1592 R. Greene Pandosto (new ed.) sig. Bij A compacted knauery..to bring the king and him at oddes.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 9 The father..findeth so great fault with them for their oddes and iarring.

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 393 These two great Dichotomisers, being at odds with all others, and with themselues.

1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. i. xiv. 26 In Germany, they..fell to oddes principally about the Sacrament of the last Supper.

1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. from Rabelais (1737) iv. xxix. 121 Enemies; against whom he is eternally at odds.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 130 I was in the greatest Confusion imaginable..; and began to be at odds with myself whether to be glad or sorry.

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. x. 30 About which your reverences have so often been at odds with one another.

1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 171 The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iii. 155 Old folk and young folk, still at odds, of course!

1926 H. O. Osgood So this is Jazz 98 Leading philologists of the jazz world are at odds over the correct spelling of the name.

1954 C. R. Attlee As it Happened xvi. 139 He had been at odds with the Conservative Party and was thus free from the taint of Munich.

1987 Smithsonian Aug. 136/2 Until they can make that one-percent risk appear vanishingly small rather than parlously large, science and society will continue to find themselves at odds.

2000 N.Y. Times 13 July f7/2 The [park's] design is inappropriate to the 19th-century buildings.., and at odds with the vastly more sensitive treatment of other recent minipark reclamations.