† diˈssentany, a. and n. Obs.
[ad. L. dissentāne-us: see prec.]
A. adj. = dissentaneous.
| 1586 Bright Melanch. xii. 55 The consideration of the whol sort of dissentanie, and disagreeing things. 1645 Milton Tetrach. (1851) 254 The parts are not discrete, or dissentanie. 1654 Z. Coke Logick (1657) 147 Dissentany consecution, is, when from the truth of the one of the opposites is understood the falshood of the other; and contrary. |
B. n. (See quots.)
| 1656 S. H. Gold. Law 81 The distinct Bodies of Parliament and People make one Body of Dissentanies or things diverse. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 8 He opposes one contrary to another and one dissentany to another. |