Discord
Discord
#713. Discord. -- N. disagreement &c. 24; discord, disaccord[obs],
dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling &c. v.; screw
loose.
- variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes,
odds, brouillerie[Fr]; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in
the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism &c.
(dissent) 489; feud, faction.
- quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie[obs], squabble, altercation,
barney *[obs], demele, snarl, spat, towrow[obs], words, high words;
wrangling &c. v.; jangle, brabble[obs], cross questions and crooked
answers, snip-snap; family jars.
- polemics; litigation; strife &c. (contention) 720; warfare &c. 722;
outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war.
- broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation|; embroilment,
embranglement[obs], imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of
work[Fr], scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance &c
(disorder) 59; commotion &c. (agitation) 315; bear garden, Donnybrook,
Donnybrook Fair.
- subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point;
bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli[Lat];
question at issue &c. (subject of inquiry) 461; vexed question, vexata
quaestio[Lat], brand of discord.
- troublous times[obs]; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness &c. adj.;
enmity &c. 889; hate &c. 898; Kilkenny cats; disputant &c. 710; strange
bedfellows.
- V. be discordant &c. adj.; disagree, come amiss &c. 24; clash, jar,
jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand
one another; live like cat and dog; differ; dissent &c. 489; have a bone to
pick, have a crow to pluck with.
- fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert &c. (deny) 536;
squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle[obs], bicker, nag; spar &c. (contend)
720; have words &c. n. with; fall foul of.
- split; break with, break squares with, part company with; declare war,
try conclusions; join issue, put in issue; pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel
on; sow dissension, stir up dissension &c. n.; embroil, entangle, disunite,
widen the breach; set at odds, set together by the ears; set against, pit
against.
- get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl; kick up a row,
kick up a dust; turn the house out of window.
- Adj. discordant; disagreeing &c. v.; out of tune, ajar, on bad terms,
dissentient &c. 489; unreconciled, unpacified; contentious &c. 720.
- quarrelsome, unpacific[obs]; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic,
disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.
- at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at
cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms,
together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.
- torn, disunited.
- Phr. quot homines tot sententiae [Lat][Terence]; no love lost between
them, non nostrum tantas componere lites [Lat][Vergil]; Mars gravior sub
pace latet [Lat][Claudius].