单词 | commatic |
释义 | commaticadj. rare. 1. Consisting of short clauses or lyric measures; of the nature of a commos. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adjective] > consisting of short clauses commatic1844 1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans 333 The anti~strophic commatic songs usually correspond with much art. 1879 L. Campbell Sophocles (ed. 2) I. 271 The metre [of Œd. Col.] is studiously varied, above all in the remarkable ‘commatic parodos’. 1879 L. Campbell Sophocles (ed. 2) I. 279 The long scene [ll. 720–1043]..broken by short commatic passages. 2. Music. Relating to the comma, as in commatic temperament, any system of tuning whose object is to dispense with the comma of Didymus, and to make all major tones express the same interval. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > [adjective] > specific system of tuning tempered1728 well-tempered1820 isotonic1828 mesotonic1864 commatic1875 schistic1875 tertian1875 temperate1876 1875 A. J. Ellis tr. H. L. F. von Helmholtz On Sensations of Tone 649 [terminology altered in ed. 2, 1885]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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