disconvenience
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dis- + convenience.
Noun[edit]
disconvenience (plural disconveniences)
- (obsolete) Incongruity; unsuitableness.
- 1608 July, Francis Bacon, “Filum Labyrinthi; sive Inquisitio Legitima de Motu”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume III, London: Longman and Co.; […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 627:
- Carta Articulorum. [...] The convenience or disconvenience which motion hath with heat and tenuity, and how these three meet, sever, and vary.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edward Reynolds to this entry?)
References[edit]
- “disconvenience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.