dissentaneous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin dissentaneus. See dissent.
Adjective[edit]
dissentaneous (comparative more dissentaneous, superlative most dissentaneous)
- disagreeing; contrary; differing
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of the Imperfection of the Jewish Religion”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
- their own prophets do on many occasions affirm and complain ; being dissentaneous and repugnant to the common humour and genius of mankind.
- 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, "To The Reader":
- He that shall peruse that worke, and shall take notice of sundry particularities and personall expressions therein, will easily discerne the intention was not publik […] and therefore if there bee any singularitie therein correspondent unto the private conceptions of any man, it doth not advantage them; or if dissentaneous thereunto, it no way overthrowes them.