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tself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not contradictory. Show me one that has it in his power To act consistent with himself an hour. Pope. With reference to such a lord, to serve and to be free are terms not consistent only…

ody every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton.

An assemblage; a collection; harmonious union. [Obs.] That person of his [George Herbert], which afforded so unusual a contesseration of elegancies. Oley.

give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coördinate muscular movements.

l authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coördination of functions. "Coördination of muscular movement by the cerebellum." Carpenter.

the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley.

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow.

Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious. Their dainty lays and dulcet melody. Spenser.

Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious.

Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature. This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift.

Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough. [Obs.] Carew.

Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.

In an harmonical manner; harmoniously.

reece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Gray.

Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant. Bacon.

s with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole. Fairholt.