Meaning of distune | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To put (something) out of tune.
   transitive
2. To cause (something) not to be in harmony or to be poorly adjusted.
   figuratively, transitive

Examples

“[…] the clapper of his distuned belle May cankre soone I mene his false tonge Be doumbe for euer & neuer efte to be runge”

“And as the Musician neyther streyneth the string of his instrument to hye, for feare of breaking, nor lette[t]h it to low for feare of distuning. So god […] will keepe a meane neyther suffering vs to be carelesselye secure, nor driuing vs for want⟳ of comforte to despayre.”

“[…] thy voice distuned and marred of modulation;”

“A judicious distuning, applied to piano tone, has the effect of introducing a wavering quality which the ear interprets as a pleasing liveliness of tone.”

“1654, Thomas Jackson, A Treatise of the Primaeval Estate of the First Man, Section 2, Chapter 13, in An Exact Collection of the Works of Doctor Jackson, London: Timothy Garthwait, p. 3037, But by eating of the forbidden fruit, and losse of Paradise, his very substance was corrupted and deprived of Life Spiritual: and all his Powers or Faculties not only corrupted, but distuned.”

“1802, Charles Lamb, John Woodvil, Act IV, in The Works of Charles Lamb, London: C. and J. Ollier, 1818, Volume 1, p. 146, O most distuned, and distempered world, where sons talk⟳ their aged fathers into their graves!”

“They seemed united As groom and bride, Who’d not communed For many years— Lives from twain spheres With hearts distuned.”

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