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cadency|ˈkeɪdənsɪ|
[ad. L. *cadentia: see -ency. In earlier use not distinguished from cadence; the sense of quality more proper to -ency comes out only in sense 3.]
†1. A falling out, happening, hap; = cadence 8.
1647J. Sprigge Angl. Rediv. i. xi. (1854) 10 How delightfully remarkable is it (as most apt cadency of Providence).
2. = cadence 1; cadent quality.
1627Feltham Resolves i. lxx. Wks. (1677) 106 Poetry..is but a Play, which makes Words dance, in the evenness of a Cadency. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 48 The old Italian tunes and rithmes both in conceipt and cadency, have much affinity with the Welsh. 1719Swift To Yng. Clergyman Wks. 1755 II. ii. 6 Rounded into periods and cadencies.
3. Descent of a younger branch from the main line of a family; the state of a cadet.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Cadency, in heraldry, the state, or quality of a cadet. 1858R. Chambers Dom. Ann. Scotl. I. 211 Not..a male descendant..in existence, of cadency later than the fifteenth century. 1866― Ess. Fam. & Hum. Ser. i. 18 He is recognised by a title of cadency from his wife, as Mrs. Thompson's husband. 1885S. Salter in N. & Q. vi. XII. 514/2 It might be thought that the label was for cadency of birth; but it was not so.
b. mark of cadency (Her.): a variation in the same coat of arms intended to show the descent of a younger branch from the main stock.
1702A. Nisbet (title) An Essay on additional Figures and Marks of Cadency. 1830T. Robson Hist. Heraldry Lj/2 These marks of cadency..have crept into the general blazon of many coats of arms. 1882W. A. Wells in N. & Q. 25 Mar. 231 James..would in vita patris have borne as his mark of cadency the original crescent charged with a label. |