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Without harmony.

The quality of being inharmonious; want of harmony; discord. The inharmoniousness of a verse. A. Tucker.

The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order. Silence is the first thing that is taught us at our initiation into sacred mysteries. Broome.

To convert into a stony substance; to petrity. [R.] Bacon.

ot official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering.

e case was settled by the individual observation and decision of the judge upon the testimony of his own senses, without the intervention of a jury. Abbott.

The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation. T. Warton.

To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

o change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.

The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing. He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh.

f Christian science which treats of the methods of securing unity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology. Schaff-Herzog.

Pertaining to irony; containing, expressing, or characterized by, irony; as, an ironical remark.

One who uses irony.

able or pertinent; not bearing upon or serving to support; foreign; extraneous; as, testimony or arguments irrelevant to a case. -- Ir*rel"a*vant*ly, adv.

Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidæ, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea.

a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue. Blackstone.

A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. A souple jade she was, and strang. Burns.

A glucoside found in the stems of the jalap plant and scammony. It is a strong purgative.

teel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.

or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears. When such strings jar, what hope of harmony Shak. A string may jar in the best master's hand. Roscommon.