Distune
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To put (something) out of tune. transitive
"[…] the clapper of his distuned belle May cankre soone I mene his false tonge Be doumbe for euer & neuer efte to be runge"
- 2 To cause (something) not to be in harmony or to be poorly adjusted. figuratively, transitive
"1654, Thomas Jackson, A Treatise of the Primaeval Estate of the First Man, Section 2, Chapter 13, in An Exact Collection of the Works of Doctor Jackson, London: Timothy Garthwait, p. 3037, But by eating of the forbidden fruit, and losse of Paradise, his very substance was corrupted and deprived of Life Spiritual: and all his Powers or Faculties not only corrupted, but distuned."
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More examples"[…] the clapper of his distuned belle May cankre soone I mene his false tonge Be doumbe for euer & neuer efte to be runge"
Etymology
From dis- + tune.
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