单词 | out of accord |
释义 | > as lemmasout of accord b. out of accord: not in agreement, out of harmony; not in accordance with. ΚΠ 1842 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Dec. 561/2 His heightened voice is out of accord with the more subdued and sober tone of language and of mind appropriate to the occasion. 1866 M. Oliphant Madonna Mary I. xiii. 216 It was a strange sort of position and strangely out of accord with her character and habits. 1918 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 26 38 The interests of the several members of any group are always more or less out of accord. 1962 Negro Digest July 93 I suddenly felt somewhat out of accord with him. 2000 T. M. Charles-Edwards Early Christian Ireland (2004) ix. 395 It was..the effort to reconcile the lunar and the solar elements of the calendar for several years in advance, and not just by inserting a month ad hoc whenever things seemed out of accord, that produced the various ‘cycles’. < as lemmas |
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