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▪ I. disconˈvenience, n. Obs. exc. dial.
[ad. L. disconvenientia (Tertullian c 200), f. disconvenientem: see disconvenient and -ence. Cf. F. disconvenance, Pr. and Sp. dis-, desconveniencia.]
†1. Want of agreement or correspondence; incongruity, inconsistency. (The opposite of convenience n. 1.) Obs.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (1844) 82 Where mesure faileth is disconuenience. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. iii. §2 (1622) 213 A necessary disconuenience, where any thing is allowed to bee cause of it selfe. 1656Hobbes Liberty, etc. (1841) 87 Fear ariseth many times out of natural antipathies, but in these disconveniences of nature deliberation hath no place at all. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 39 The dictate of right reason, shewing to any action, from its convenience or disconvenience with Rational nature, that there is in it a Moral turpitude or a Moral necessity.
†2. Unfitness, unsuitableness, impropriety. (The opposite of convenience n. 4.) Obs.
14..Lydg. Secrees 953 Ther is a maneer disconvenience In Re publica is hoolde vicious, A kyng to pleyne vpon Indigence, Outhir in desirs to been Avaricious. 1598Florio Sconuenenolezza, disconuenience, vnseemelines.
3. Inconvenience, incommodity, disadvantage; (with pl.) something inconvenient, an inconvenience. (The opposite of convenience n. 5–7.) Obs. exc. dial.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices Pref. to Rdr., To such sortes of annoyaunce and disconuenience light and moderation is brought by morall doctrine. 1566Painter Pal. Pleas. i. 183 What tormentes be in love, what travailes in pursute..what disconveniences. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 202 Hee..lookes to the disconveniences, not the commodity, hee getts by possession. 1645Quarles Sol. Recant. ii. 65 What harm, what disconvenience lies In being foole? what vantage to be wise? 1825–80Jamieson, Disconvenience, inconvenience. Aberd.
▪ II. disconˈvenience, v. dial.
[f. prec.: cf. convenience v.]
trans. To put to inconvenience; to inconvenience.
1825–80Jamieson, Disconvenience, to put to inconvenience. [Aberd.] 1894Crockett Raiders xviii. 159 Sand had no cloak..yet he did not appear in the least disconvenienced. |
单词 discontinuously 释义 discontinuously, adv.[f. prec. + -ly2.]In a discontinuous manner......