| 单词 | discrepant |
| 释义 | discrepant, a. and n.|ˈdɪskrɪpənt, dɪˈskrɛpənt|
Also 6 discripant, discrepante.
[ad. L. discrepānt-em, pr. pple. of discrepāre to differ, lit. to sound discordantly, f. dis- 1 + crepāre to make a noise, creak.]
A. adj.
1. Exhibiting difference, dissimilarity or want of harmony; different, discordant, inharmonious, inconsistent. Const. from, † to.
1524St. Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 100 It were ferre discrepant from the Kinges honour to have the treaty of peax with Scotland concluded..by Lieutenauntes. 1531Elyot Gov. i. xxv, Wherin he is moste discrepant from brute beastes. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 236 This marriage..was much more discrepant to the said laws. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 478 The Vulgar Theology of the Pagans..was oftentimes very discrepant from the Natural and True Theology. a1734North Exam. iii. vii. §49 (1740) 539 The King's Notions and his were very discrepant. 1846Grote Greece i. xviii. II. 11 A desire..to blend together..two discrepant legends. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xiii. 196 Since the price is so discrepant from that in the neighbourhood of Oxford.
†2. Apart or separate in space. Obs. rare.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 49 b The Tilastrelles were discrepant fowre paces one from another. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 13/1 Further discrepant than heaven and ground. 1818Keats Endym. iii. 343 Sea-mew's plaintive cry Plaining discrepant between sea and sky.
†B. n. One who disagrees; a dissentient. Obs.
1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. vii. 141 None could have triumph'd so openly over all discrepants as this. Ibid. xvi. 216 If you persecute heretickes or discrepants, they unite themselves as to a common defence.
Hence discrepantly adv., with discrepancy; in contrary ways.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. ix. (1632) 562, I am..precisely vowed..to speake confusedly, to speak discrepantly. |
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