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adjective

Harmonious adj.

Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical. "God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us."

Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family.

Vocally or musically concordant; agreeably consonant; symphonious.

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Etymology of 'Harmonious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of processes by which mechanical unity is given to the labour once performed by a number of separate individuals, or groups of individuals with different sorts of tools. But the economy of the earlier machines was generally of a different character. For the most part it consisted not in the harmonious relation of a number of different processes, but rather in a multiplication of the same process raised sometimes to a higher size and speed by mechanical contrivances. So the chief economic value of the earlier machinery applied to spinning ...

— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson

... the sense of beauty that we feel in works of art would go straight to the revelation of the essence of beauty. All that aesthetic teachers tell us is, that certain lines and colours and arrangements are harmonious, and the philosopher fails in telling us why they are harmonious. Does Hegel? Even if we are told there is an Idea in us which is also an Idea in Nature, and, therefore, we can understand the Idea, because We are It, does that throw light on what the Idea ...

— Cobwebs of Thought • Arachne

... music, what harmonious Glad triumphs of the world's desire Where passion yearns to God and burns Earth's dross out with its own pure fire, Or tolls like some deep ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... might make him take it for a volcano directly!—And Herschel's not a bit better. Those sort of philosophers are the easiest taken in in the world." Our next topic was still more ludicrous. Colonel Manners asked me if I had not heard something, very harmonious at church in the morning? I answered I was too far off, if he meant ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2 • Madame D'Arblay

... bear down unduly upon poor imperfect humanity? and what was his purpose in satire? If he is unfair in the representation his place among the great should suffer; since the truly great observer of life does general justice to humankind in his harmonious portrayal. ...

— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton

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