unharmonise

English

Verb

unharmonise (third-person singular simple present unharmonises, present participle unharmonising, simple past and past participle unharmonised)

Alternative form of unharmonize
- 1763, Battista Angeloni (pseud. John Shebbeare), Select Letters on the English Nation, etc, page 96:
  a rainy day day untunes both: tho' the harmony of the instrument is most exquisite, and the delights of the mind ineffable, yet considering how many disagreeable accidents may probably arrive, which may discompose one and unharmonise the other, is it not better to be formed of less delicate materials, and, tho' wanting the highest excellence in sound or sensation, to possess a common fiddle, or a common soul?
- 1802, THE MISSIONARY MAGAZINE FOR 1802, page 203:
  Let those, whose distorted tempers and growling discontent unharmonise Christian society, and are always seeking and finding some new occasion of offence, remember, while they are gratifying their malignant passions, they decide their characters as strangers to the Spirit of Christ.
- 1954, Image - Volumes 3-4, page 61:
  The resuscitation of the 'long dead, buried, and forgotten' I was afraid would unharmonise the tune.