a. [UN-1 7.] = INCONSONANT a. a. Const. to or with.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 33. Vnconsonand is to the veritie To do to ws so greit inormitie.
a. 1600. Hooker, Serm. on Pride, IV. § 1. If … it be a thing most unequal and unconsonant unto justice.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., Pref. Which is not altogether unconsonant to reason.
a. 1676. Hales, Prim. Orig. Man., III. ii. (1677), 260. As his Supposition of these Semina, thus casually produc’d, seems unconsonant both to the Reason and Course of Nature.
1805. Foster, Ess., IV. v. 183. A certain order of opinions unconsonant, or at least not identical, with the principles of that religion.
1843. in J. Hawthorne, N. Hawthorne & Wife (1885), I. vi. 273. It was a magnificent comedy to watch him,… so unconsonant to what was about him.
b. Without const.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. li. § 3. It seemeth a thing vnconsonant that the world should honor any other as the Sauiour but him whom it honoreth as the creator of the world.
1658. Manton, Exp. Jude 4, Wks. 1871, V. 167. To observe … whether we embrace it upon undue grounds, or match it with unconsonant practices.
1665. J. Sergeant, Sure Footing, 241. If he does, he must hold it was Eternal; If not, how unconsonant is his parallel?
Hence Unconsonantly adv.
1863. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., v. 128. He is gradually led on to act unconsonantly with his real nature.
