absonous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin absonus, from ab- (“away”) + sonus (“sound”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
absonous (comparative more absonous, superlative most absonous)
- (obsolete) Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 18th century.][1]
- 1665, Joseph Glanville, Scepsis Scientifica:
- absonous to our reason
References edit
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absonous”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.