a. [ L. ab + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound. ] Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. “Absonant to nature.” Quarles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. altus high + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound. ] High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. armisonus; arma arms + sonare (p. pr. sonans) to sound. ] Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- not + sonant. ] Not sounding or sounded. [ R. ] C. C. Felton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant. ] 1. Resemblance of sound. “The disagreeable assonance of ‘sheath' and ‘sheathed.'” Steevens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Incomplete correspondence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. assonans, p. pr. of assonare to sound to, to correspond to in sound; ad + sonare to sound, sonus sound: cf. F. assonant. See Sound. ] 1. Having a resemblance of sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pros.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Assonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. assonare, assonatum, to respond to. ] To correspond in sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. casson, for caisson a large chest. This sugar comes from Brazil in large chests. ] Raw sugar; sugar not refined. Mc Elrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ L. consonantia: cf. F. consonnance. ] 1. (Mus.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Friendship; concord. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By the consonancy of our youth. Shak.

Syn. -- Agreement; accord; consistency; unison; harmony; congruity; suitableness; agreeableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consonans, -antis; p. pr. of consonare to sound at the same time, agree; con- + sonare to sound: cf. F. consonnant. See Sound to make a noise. ] 1. Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each one pretends that his opinion . . . is consonant to the words there used. Bp. Beveridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

That where much is given there shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having like sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consonant words and syllables. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants. [ 1913 Webster ]

No Russian whose dissonant consonant name
Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consonans, -antis. ] An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consonants are divided into various classes, as mutes, spirants, sibilants, nasals, semivowels, etc. All of them are sounds uttered through a closer position of the organs than that of a vowel proper, although the most open of them, as the semivowels and nasals, are capable of being used as if vowels, and forming syllables with other closer consonants, as in the English feeble taken All the consonants excepting the mutes may be indefinitely, prolonged in utterance without the help of a vowel, and even the mutes may be produced with an aspirate instead of a vocal explosion. Vowels and consonants may be regarded as the two poles in the scale of sounds produced by gradual approximation of the organ, of speech from the most open to the closest positions, the vowel being more open, the consonant closer; but there is a territory between them where the sounds produced partake of the qualities of both. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “A consonant is the result of audible friction, squeezing, or stopping of the breath in some part of the mouth (or occasionally of the throath.) The main distinction between vowels and consonants is, that while in the former the mouth configuration merely modifies the vocalized breath, which is therefore an essential element of the vowels, in consonants the narrowing or stopping of the oral passage is the foundation of the sound, and the state of the glottis is something secondary.” H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To change into, or use as, a consonant. “The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position.” Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a consonant, consistent, or congruous manner; agreeably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dissonantia: cf. F. dissonance. ] 1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord. [ 1913 Webster ]

Filled the air with barbarous dissonance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Want of agreement; incongruity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Discord; dissonance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dissonans, -antis, p. pr. of dissonare to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. dissonant. See Sonant. ] 1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. [ 1913 Webster ]

With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to. “Anything dissonant to truth.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman? Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] The actors in a drama or play. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Equi- + L. sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound: cf. F. équisonnance. See Sonant. ] (Mus.) An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. Of the same or like sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Horrisonous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. impersonalis; pref. im- not + personalis personal: cf. F. impersonnel. See Personal. ] Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality. [ 1913 Webster ]

An almighty but impersonal power, called Fate. Sir J. Stephen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Impersonal verb (Gram.), a verb used with an indeterminate subject, commonly, in English, with the impersonal pronoun it; as, it rains; it snows; methinks (it seems to me). Many verbs which are not strictly impersonal are often used impersonally; as, it goes well with him. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which wants personality; specifically (Gram.), an impersonal verb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being impersonal; want or absence of personality. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an impersonal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Impersonated p. pr. & vb. n. Impersonating. ] 1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Benedict impersonated his age. Milman.

n. One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Lack of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inconsonans. See In- not, and Consonant. ] Not consonant or agreeing; inconsistent; discordant. -- In*con"so*nant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

prop. n. [ Iso- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a man, male. ] (Bot.) A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) A phenomenon resulting from quantization in the magnetic field of electrons or atoms or molecules or nuclei exposed to an external magnetic field, by which a narrow frequency band of radio waves may be absorbed and re-emitted by the object. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Medicine) a medical diagnostic procedure utilizing the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance to generate images of internal parts of the body. It depends on the differential absorption of electromagnetic radiation by different types of living tissue in a magnetic field. It is complementary to X-ray imaging in that the softer tissue show more prominently in magnetic resonance images, rather than bone, as with X-rays. It is a non-invasive procedure, allowing such images to be obtained without penetration of the tissue by objects. It is abbreviated MRI. As with computerized tomography, the results are usually presented as images of sequential planar sections of that part of the body of concern to the physician. [ PJC ]

a. [ Meso- + nasal. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mono- + personal. ] Having but one person, or form of existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not sonant. -- n. A nonsonant or nonvocal consonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) The specific absorption and re-emission of electromagnetic radiation at characteristic wavelengths by atomic nuclei in a magnetic field. It is abbreviated NMR. The wavelength of the radiation absorbed depends on the type of nucleus, the intensity of the magnetic field, and the local chemical environment in which the nucleus resides. It is the latter effect (called the chemical shift), by which atoms of specific elements in different chemical compounds show a different resonance frequency, which gives rise to the greatest utility of this phenomenon in analyzing the chemical structure of substances. Similar effects of the chemical environment permit the discrimination of different types of living tissue by virtue of their different chemical composition, thus permitting utilization of the phenomenon in medical diagnostic instruments, especially for magnetic resonance imaging. [ PJC ]

n. (Physics) The resonance absorption of a gamma ray by a nucleus identical to the nucleus that emitted the gamma ray. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. opsonatio. ] A catering; a buying of provisions. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Eng. Eccl. Law) A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Money paid for the support of a parson. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What have I been paying stipend and teind, parsonage and vicarage, for? Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Personæ [ L. ] (Biol.) Same as Person, n., 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) Enabled to maintain pleas in court. Cowell. (b) Having capacity to take anything granted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. personnage. ] 1. Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. “In personage stately.” Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The damsel well did view his personage. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Character assumed or represented. “The actors and personages of this fable.” Broome. “Disguised in a false personage.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A notable or distinguished person; a conspicuous or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. personalis: cf. F. personnel. ] 1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every man so termed by way of personal difference. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire. [ 1913 Webster ]

The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Done in person; without the intervention of another. “Personal communication.” Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

The immediate and personal speaking of God. White. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

Personal action (Law), a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action. --
Personal equation. (Astron.) See under Equation. --
Personal estate or
Personal property (Law), movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or real property. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature. --
Personal identity (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness. --
Personal pronoun (Gram.), one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals. --
Personal representatives (Law), the executors or administrators of a person deceased. --
Personal rights, rights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property. --
Personal tithes. See under Tithe. --
Personal verb (Gram.), a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) A movable; a chattel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Computers) A computer{ 2 } designed for use by one person at a time; -- contrasted with shared-time computers such as a mainframe, server or minicomputer, which may be accessed by multiple users each operating from a different input device (in the 1990's, usually a terminal or personal computer). A personal computer typically uses a microprocessor for its CPU.
Syn. -- PC, microcomputer. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The quality or state of being personal; personality. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]