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Definition of Distuning
1. distune [v] - See also: distune
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distuning
Literary usage of Distuning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds and Man by William Henry Hudson (1920)
"It needed a long walk on the downs to get myself once more in tune with the
outdoor world after that distuning experience ; but just before quitting the ..."
2. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1868)
"The passage of food and drink causes pain, excites spasms of the glottis, thus
occasioning distuning ..."
3. Catalogue of the Described Diptera of North America by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken (1862)
"The form of the cos» is of the greatest importance in distuning the families, At
Ute outer extremity of the anterior cox» is seen in some families an ..."
4. The General Laws of the State of California: From 1850 to 1864, Inclusive by California, United States (1872)
"Every person who shall wilfully disquiet or disturb any congrega-distuning tion
or assembly of people, met for religions worship, by making a noise, ..."
5. Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears: The Triumphs Over Death; and An Epistle of by Robert Southwell (1822)
"... nor letteth it too low, for fear of distuning; so God, saith St. Chrysostom,
will keep a mean, neither suffering us to be carelessly secure, ..."
6. Here and Beyond: Or, The New Man, the True Man by Hugh Smith Carpenter (1859)
"In mutilation of any true doctrine, there is a fracture of all truth, as surely
as there is a distuning of a musical instrument in breaking one of its ..."
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