a. Obs. [f. L. abson-us out of tune + -OUS.] lit. Out of tune, inharmonious; fig. incongruous, absurd, unreasonable. Const. to.
1622. Fotherby, Atheom., II. xi. § 4. 318. That noise, as Macrobius truly inferreth, must be of necessity either sweet and melodious, or harsh and absonous.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq. How absonous and ridiculous it is not to interpret Prophetick Figures according to the approved meaning and observable use of the Prophetick style.
1681. Glanville, Sad. Trium. (1726), I. 67. Which Distribution, not withstanding, is as absonous and absurd as if he had distributed Animal into Sensitive and Rational.
