Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wide from the purpose; contrary; discordant: opposed to consonant: as, “absonant to nature,” Quarles, The Mourner.
Wiktionary
- adj. Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.
- adj. Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to
consonant .
Examples
“A small example is the word 'absonant' which appears in the first act of 'Double Falsehood'.”
“A small example is the word 'absonant' which appears in the first act of Double Falsehood.”
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“Can any thing be more absonant from faith and reason than this absurd expression? and yet it is the direct sense, if it be any, that these men put upon the words.”
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
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troopie Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.
Latin ab + sonans, past preterite of sonare to sound.
May 7, 2008