distuned
distuned is the simple past and past participle of distune.
Meaning of distune
Verb
distune (third-person singular simple present distunes, present participle distuning, simple past and past participle distuned)
- To put (something) out of tune.
- […] the clapper of his distuned belle
May cankre soone I mene his false tonge
Be doumbe for euer & neuer efte to be rungea. 1451, John Lydgate, chapter 20, in The Lyf of Our Lady, Westminster: William Caxton, published 1484
- […] the clapper of his distuned belle
- To cause (something) not to be in harmony or to be poorly adjusted.
- 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.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
- Synonyms:
- untune
Questions about distuned
- What is distuned the simple past and past participle of?
- Distuned is the simple past and past participle of distune.
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