LekhoriLekhoriNot in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
For it is poſſible long ſtudy may encreaſe, and confirm erroneous Sentences: and vvhere men build on falſe grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine: and of thoſe that ſtudy, and obſerve vvith equall time, and diligence, the reaſons and reſolutions are, and muſt remain diſcordant: […]
Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.
Dikes may be discordant to country rock if they intrude at a high angle to the bedding.
Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic.
A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things.
In the process of dismemberment it must often happen that the true individuality of a soil is lost, so that schemes of laboratory classification sometimes arbitrarily separate agricultural similars and unite agricultural discordants.
From Late Middle English discordaunt (“(adjective) not in accord or harmony; dissonant; (noun) element not in accord or harmony”), from Anglo-Norman descorda(u)nt, discorda(u)nt, Middle French descord...
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