| 单词 |
dissonancy |
| 释义 |
† ˈdissonancy Obs.
[ad. L. dissonāntia: see prec. and -ancy.]
Dissonant quality.
1. = dissonance 1.
1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life of Peiresc ii. 147 Certain Treatises of Consonancies and Dissonancies..and of musical composition or setting. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. iv. §2 (1737) I. 140 The rules of harmony will not permit it: the dissonancys are too strong. Ibid. (1737) II. 402 In musick [there is] the chromatick kind, and skilful mixture of dissonancys.
b. The combination of different sounds (in harmony). nonce-use.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. x. (1626) 199 The Poet..hauing tun'd his strings, In dissonancie musicall, thus sings.
2. = dissonance 2. (The more usual sense.)
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. x. iii. 144 A dissonancie in opinions about dreames. 1613Jackson Creed i. xxxii. §2. 229 Their stile, character, or dissonancie to Canonicall Scriptures. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. iv, Those things..haue no dissonancy from reason. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. v. ii. (1852) 242 The objectors will find as much dissonancy from the scriptural example in their own practice. 1748J. Geddes Compos. Antients 351 He who loves not what he thinks good and honest..dwells with discord and dissonancy. |
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