dissentious, a. Now rare.
(dɪˈsɛnʃəs)
Also 6 -cious, 6–7 -sious.
[f. dissension, and therefore more etymologically spelt dissensious: see -ious. But perh. orig. after OF. dissencieux, -tieux, from dissencion, -tion, obs. spellings of dissension. There are no other Eng. words in -ensious, while -entious is frequent, and naturally associates this word with dissent, dissentient, etc.]
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, dissension or disagreement in opinion; esp. given to dissension, discordant, quarrelsome.
| 1560 P. Whitehorne tr. Macchiavelli's Arte of Warre (1573) 19 a, The disunited and discencious do agree. 1592 Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 657 This carry-tale, dissentious Jealousy..Knocks at my heart. 1597 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scotl. x. 442 Tha began to be dissensious. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. iii. 206 The two brethren grew..dissentious about the deuision of their purchases. 1877 Blackie Wise Men 334 In violent plunges of dissentious rage. 1882–3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 354/2 As well fitted for harmonious as for dissentious action. |
† b. Inclined to differ or dissent in religious or ecclesiastical matters. Obs.
| a 1568 R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 93 He..will..presume..in Religion, to haue a dissentious head, or in the common wealth, to haue a factious hart. 1579 Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 1032/1 We may not marueile if there be discentious persons in y⊇ Church, which go about to marre all order. 1676 Life Muggleton in Harl. Misc. I. 610 This Muggleton, an obstinate, dissentious, and opposive spirit. |
† c. Of things: Differing, at variance, discordant; of the nature of dissension. Obs. rare.
| 1605 Tryall Chev. iv. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 322 Since he..first inkindled this dissensious brawle. 164. Chas. I. Answ. to Earls Bristol & Dorset 3 Severall and farre different conceptions, yet none dissentious from Truth. |