Dictionary: DIS-CON-TIN-U'I-TY – DIS'COUNT-ING

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DIS-CON-TIN-U'I-TY, n.

Disunion of parts; want of cohesion. – Newton.

DIS-CON-TIN'U-OUS, a.

  1. Broken off; interrupted.
  2. Separated; wide; gaping. – Milton.

DIS-CON-VEN'IENCE, n. [dis and convenience.]

Incongruity; disagreement. [Little used.] – Bramhall.

DIS-CON-VEN'IENT, a.

Incongruous. – Reynolds.

DIS'CORD, n. [L. discordia; Fr. discorde; from L. discors; dis and cor.]

  1. Disagreement among persons or things. Between persons, difference of opinions; variance; opposition; contention; strife; any disagreement which produces angry passions, contest, disputes, litigation or war. Discord may exist between families, parties and nations.
  2. Disagreement; want of order; a clashing. All discord, harmony not understood. – Pope.
  3. In music, disagreement of sounds; dissonance; a union of sounds which is inharmonious, grating and disagreeable to the ear; or an interval whose extremes do not coalesce. Thus the second and the seventh, when sounded together, make a discord. The term discord is applied to each of the two sounds which form the dissonance, and to the interval; but more properly to the mixed sound of dissonant tones. It is opposed to concord and harmony.

DIS-CORD', v.i.

To disagree; to jar; to clash; not to suit; not to be coincident. [Not in use.] – Bacon.

DIS-CORD'ANCE, or DIS-CORD'AN-CY, n. [L. discordans.]

Disagreement; opposition; inconsistency; as, a discordance of opinions, or of sounds.

DIS-CORD'ANT, a. [L. discordans.]

  1. Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; being at variance; as, discordant opinions; discordant rules or principles.
  2. Opposite; contrarious; not coincident; as, the discordant attractions of comets, or of different planets. – Cheyne.
  3. Dissonant; not in unison; not harmonious; not accordant; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.

DIS-CORD'ANT-LY, adv.

Dissonantly; in a discordant manner; inconsistently; in a manner to jar or clash; in disagreement with another, or with itself.

DIS-CORD'FUL, a.

Quarrelsome; contentious. – Spenser.

DIS-COUN'SEL, v.t.

To dissuade. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

DIS'COUNT, n. [Fr. deconte or decompte; de or dis and compte; It. sconto; Sp. descuento; Arm. discount or digont. See Count. Literally, a counting back or from.]

  1. A sum deducted for prompt or advanced payment; an allowance or deduction from a sum due, or from a credit; a certain rate per cent. deducted from the credit price of goods sold, on account of prompt payment; or any deduction from the customary price, or from a sum due or to be due at a future time. Thus the merchant who gives a credit of three months, will deduct a certain rate per cent. for payment in hand, and the holder of a note or bill of exchange will deduct a certain rate per cent. of the amount of the note or bill for advanced payment, which deduction is called a discount.
  2. Among bankers, the deduction of a sum for advanced payment; particularly, the deduction of the interest on a sum lent, at the time of lending. The discounts at banking institutions are usually the amount of legal interest paid by the borrower, and deducted from the sum borrowed, at the commencement of the credit. – Hamilton's Report.
  3. The sum deducted or refunded; as, the discount was five per cent.
  4. The act of discounting. A note is lodged in the bank for discount. The banks have suspended discounts.

DIS'COUNT, v.i.

To lend or make a practice of lending money, deducting the interest at the time of the loan. The banks discount for sixty or ninety days, sometimes for longer terms.

DIS'COUNT, v.t. [Sp. descontar; Port. id.; Fr. decompter; Arm. discounta, digontein; It. scontare. In British books, the accent is laid on the last syllable. But in America, the accent is usually or always on the first.]

  1. To deduct a certain sum or rate per cent. from the principal sum. Merchants discount five or six per cent for prompt or for advanced payment.
  2. To lend or advance the amount of, deducting the interest or other rate per cent. from the principal, at the time of the loan or advance. The banks discount notes and bills of exchange, on good security. The first rule … to discount only unexceptionable paper. – Walsh.

DIS-COUNT'A-BLE, a.

That may be discounted. Certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank. A bill may be discountable for more than sixty days.

DIS'COUNT-DAY, n.

The day of the week on which a bank discounts notes and bills.

DIS'COUNT-ED, pp.

  1. Deducted from a principal sum; paid back; refunded or allowed; as, the sum of five per cent. was discounted.
  2. Having the amount lent on discount or deduction of a sum in advance; as, the bill was discounted for sixty days.

DIS-COUN'TE-NANCE, n.

Cold treatment; unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage. He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit. – Clarendon.

DIS-COUN'TE-NANCE, v.t. [dis and countenance.]

  1. To abash; to ruffle or discompose the countenance; to put to shame; to put out of countenance. [Not used.] How would one look from his majestic brow / Discountenance her despised. – Milton.
  2. To discourage; to check; to restrain by frowns, censure, arguments, opposition, or cold treatment. The good citizen will discountenance vice by every lawful means.

DIS-COUN'TE-NANC-ED, pp.

Abashed; discouraged; checked; frowned on.

DIS-COUN'TE-NANC-ER, n.

One who discourages by cold treatment, frowns, censure, or expression of disapprobation; one who checks or depresses by unfriendly regards.

DIS-COUN'TE-NANC-ING, ppr.

Abashing; discouraging; checking by disapprobation or unfriendly regards.

DIS-COUNT'ER, n.

One who advances money on discounts. – Burke.

DIS'COUNT-ING, n.

The act or practice of lending money on discounts. The profitable business of a bank consists in discounting. – Hamilton.

DIS'COUNT-ING, ppr.

  1. Deducting a sum for prompt or advanced payment.
  2. Lending on discount.