▪ I. disagreeing, vbl. n.
(dɪsəˈgriːɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb to disagree; disagreement.
| 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke 94 a, There ought to bee no discorde ne disagreyng emong theim in their preachyng. 1567 R. Mulcaster Fortescue's De Laud. Leg. (1572) 103 b, To be troubled with so many disagreeings. 1647 Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. xvii. 219 Such complying with the disagreeings of a sort of men, is the total overthrow of all Discipline. Mod. Their disagreeing was happily prevented. |
▪ II. disagreeing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That disagrees.
† 1. Out of harmony or agreement; discordant, incongruous; diverse. Obs.
| 1551 T. Wilson Logike (1580) 39 The places..declare..what be incidente, what be disagreeyng from the matter. 1561 T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer (1577) E vij b, Oratours.. vnlike and disagreeing..to their predecessours & folowers. 1593 Queen Elizabeth tr. Boethius (E.E.T.S.) 105 Me thinkes it a crosse mater and in it self disagreing, that God all knowes, and yet ther should be a free will. 1656 W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §559 Many Islands, replenished with disagreeing nations and tongues. 1690 Locke Govt. i. ii. §7 A Figure..very disagreeing with what..Children imagine of their Parents. |
2. Differing in opinion; dissentient.
| 1552 Huloet, Disagreeynge, dissentaneus. 1625 K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. xx. 63 The nobles about them, in agreeing silence covered their disagreeing thoughts. 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. xii. 244 Finding the Philosophers and Wise Men so uncertain and disagreeing. 1856 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 271 A half-perplexed, half-amused, and wholly disagreeing expression. |
3. At variance, quarrelling.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. i. ii. ii. (1651) 421 Hard-hearted parents, disobedient children, disagreeing brothers. 1732 Berkeley Alciphr. v. §19 The most contentious, quarrelsome, disagreeing crew, that ever appeared. |
4. Of incompatible or prejudicial operation; unsuitable.
| 1563 T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 90 The Greek writers think the Basil so disagreing and contrary to women, that if [etc.]. 1683 Tryon Way to Health 483 The eating of this..Food becomes offensive to them, and disagreeing. 1794 Wolcott (p. Pindar) Rowl. for Oliver Wks. II. 41 This was a puzzling, disagreeing question, Grating like arsenic on his host's digestion. |
Hence † disaˈgreeingly adv. Obs.
| 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Desacordamente, disagreeingly. |