| 释义 |
▪ I. cadent, a.|ˈkeɪdənt|
[ad. L. cadent-em, pr. pple. of cad-ĕre to fall.]
1. Falling (literally). Obs. or arch.
1605Shakes. Lear i. iv. 307 With cadent Teares fret Channels in her cheekes. 1659J. Arrowsmith Chain Princ. 200 We ourselves have seen him Antichrist cadent. 1855Bailey Mystic 9 The moaning winds and cadent waters.
2. Astrol. Of a planet: Going down; in a sign opposite to that of its exaltation.
‘Cadent Houses are the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth House of a Scheme or figure of the Heavens, being those that are next from the Angles’ (Phillips 1696).
1586Lupton Thous. Notable Th. (1675) 201 If the part of Fortune be cadent from the Ascendent. 1671Blagrave Astrol. Phys. 164 Fixt Signs, and cadent Houses alwayes signifie the greatest distances.
3. Falling (rhythmically); having cadence.
1613E. Hoby Counter-snarle 13 Il current and worse cadent lines. 1857Emerson Poems 134 Far within those cadent pauses. 1859F. K. Harford Martyrs of Lyons 24 Unfailing lips those cadent strains prolong.
4. Geol. Applied by Prof. H. Rogers to the tenth of his 15 divisions of the palæozoic strata of the Alleghanies, corresponding to the lower middle Devonian of British geologists.
▪ II. † ˈcadent, n. Obs.
[f. prec.]
One of the ‘graces’ in old English music.
1879F. Taylor in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 43 ‘Shaked graces’ are the Shaked Beat, Backfall, Elevation, and Cadent. |