Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disagreeing; contrary; inconsistent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to
consentaneous .
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- adjective
disagreeing ;contrary ;differing
Etymologies
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Examples
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He that shall peruse that work, and shall take notice of sundry particulars and personal expressions therein, will easily discern the intention was not publick: and, being a private exercise directed to myself, what is delivered therein was rather a memorial unto me, than an example or rule unto any other: and therefore, if there be any singularity therein correspondent unto the private conceptions of any man, it doth not advantage them; or if dissentaneous thereunto, it no way overthrows them.
Religio Medici 2007
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He that shall peruse that work, and shall take notice of sundry particulars and personal expressions therein, will easily discern the intention was not public: and being a private exercise directed to myself, what is delivered therein, was rather a memorial unto me, than an example or rule unto any other: and therefore if there be any singularity therein correspondent unto the private conceptions of any man, it doth not advantage them: or if dissentaneous thereunto, it no way overthrows them.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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He that shall peruse that work, and shall take notice of sundry particulars and personal expressions therein, will easily discern the intention was not publick: and, being a private exercise directed to myself, what is delivered therein was rather a memorial unto me, than an example or rule unto any other: and therefore, if there be any singularity therein correspondent unto the private conceptions of any man, it doth not advantage them; or if dissentaneous thereunto, it no way overthrows them.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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