Word Meanings - INCONCINNITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.

Related words: (words related to INCONCINNITY)

• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
  To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• TRENCHER
  1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• INCONCINNITY
  Want of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• CONCINNITY
  Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.
• THEREUNDER
  Under that or this.
• TRENCH
  To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak. 3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose
• ADMITTABLE
  Admissible. Sir T. Browne.
• TRENCHANT
  1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
• THESE
  The plural of this. See This.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• ADMITTED; ADMITTEDLY
  Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- Ad*mit"ted*ly adv.
• THERE-ANENT
  Concerning that.
• TRENCHAND
  Trenchant. Spenser.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• INTRENCHANT
  Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
• ETHEREAL
  Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. Ethereal oil. See Essential oil, under Essential. -- Ethereal oil of wine , a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It