KJV Dictionary Definition: discord

discord

DISCORD, n. L.

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, v.i. To disagree; to jar; to clash; not to suit; not to be coincident. Not in use.

discordance

DISCORDANCE, DISCORDANCY, n. L. Disagreement; opposition; inconsistency; as a discordance of opinions, or of sounds.

discordancy

DISCORDANCE, DISCORDANCY, n. L. Disagreement; opposition; inconsistency; as a discordance of opinions, or of sounds.

discordant

DISCORDANT, a. L.

1. Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; being at variance; as discordant opinions; discordant rules or principles.

2. Opposite; contrarious; not coincident; as the discordant attractions of comets, or of different planets.

3. Dissonant; not in unison; not harmonious; not accordant harsh; jarring; as discordant notes or sounds.

discordantly

DISCORDANTLY, adv. Dissonantly; in a discordant manner; inconsistently; in a manner to jar or clash; in disagreement with another, or with itself.

discordful

DISCORDFUL, a. Quarrelsome; contentious.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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