cordant

Fawn's thoughts were stumbling down the same dis-cordant path.

The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

In the early stages of the new Government, when all felt the imposing influence as they recognized the unequaled services of the first President, it was a common sentiment that the great weight of his character could alone bind the dis cordant materials of our Government together and save us from the violence of contending factions.

Martin Van Buren: Inaugural Address 1989

On the authority of Pythagoras, and of Plato, who had, in his Timaeus, envisaged a mathematically and musically ordered universe more intricately contrived than that suggested by early Pythagorean experiments, men concluded that the basis of all harmony in macro - cosm and microcosm alike is mathematical; that what - ever exists is based on proportion or number, the con - cordant relationships of which are revealed in music.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968

And out - side, the howls of that weird pack arose in a dis - cordant chorus.

Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965

For so long as their hearts consist in dis - cordant exercises, which alternately follow one anoth - er, they can have no solid ground of security against their instability and deception.

Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice 1812

They may be ftaggered too by having heard many diC - cordant opinions on this very fubjeO;.

Observations on the state of society Grant, Charles 1792

What order and har - mony can fubfift, when fifty thoufand fovercign cleftors, afting on all parts of the Body Politic, by the* virtually permanent impreflion of eighty - three aflemblies, of fix hundred perfons each, will make the whole machine give way under their united eflTorts, or break it in pieces by their dif - cordant motions?

Considerations on the Present and Future State of France Charles Alexandre de Calonne 1791