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In respect to harmony, as distinguished from melody; as, a passage harmonically correct.

One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.

, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.

To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.

Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.

Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody.

Plain harmony, as opposed to polyphony. See Homophonous.

Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry or of harmony. [Obs.]

or. "Made up of incongruous parts." Macaulay. Incongruous denotes that kind of absence of harmony or suitableness of which the taste and experience of men takes cognizance. C. J. Smith. Incongruous numbers (Arith.), two numbers, which, with respect to a third, are such that their difference can not be divided by it wit…

Want of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement.

Conflicting; jarring; not in harmony.

Without harmony.

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

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

ch of 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.

hly 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.

Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.

n intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support. Bacon.

A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony. [R.]

ous degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.