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Webster 1913 Edition
Discord
Dis′cordˊ
,Noun.
1.
Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; – applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth
discord
among brethren. Prov. vi. 19.
Peace to arise out of universal
discord
fomented in all parts of the empire. Burke.
2.
(Mus.)
Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
For a
discord
itself is but a harshness of divers sounds m[GREEK][GREEK][GREEK]ing. Bacon.
Syn. – Variance; difference; opposition; contrariety; clashing; dissension; contention; strife; disagreement; dissonance.
Dis-cord′
,Verb.
I.
To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
[Obs.]
The one
discording
with the other. Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Discord
DISCORD
,Noun.
1.
Disagreement among persons or things. Between persons, difference of opinions; variance; opposition; contention; strife; any disagreement which produces angry passions, contest, disputes, litigation or war. Discord may exist between families, parties and nations.2.
Disagreement; want of order; a clashing.All discord, harmony not understood.
3.
In music, disagreement of sounds; dissonance; a union of sounds which is inharmonious, grating and disagreeable to the ear; or an interval whose extremes do not coalesce. Thus the second and the seventh, when sounded together, make a discord. The term discord is applied to each of the two sounds which form the dissonance, and to the interval; but more properly to the mixed sound of dissonant tones. It is opposed to concord and harmony.DISCORD
,Verb.
I.