accentuatedadj.

a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) x. 316 What a trifle my digging up gold in some mine I might have fallen upon in Peru or elsewhere, would have been, in comparison of this, which I found in my accentuated Hebrew Bible!

1763 J. Foster Ess. Accent & Quantity (ed. 2) Index 447/2 Taylor..on the accentuated Herculanean inscription.

1811 Eclectic Rev. Oct. 905 Mr. Frey..has wisely engaged Jewish compositors, who, from their childhood, were trained up to a familiarity with the punctuated and accentuated Hebrew.

1841 T. G. Hall Elem. Descr. Geom. 26 The small letters abc, &c., belong to the projections in the horizontal plane; the accentuated letters a′b′c′, &c., indicate projections in the vertical plane.

1866 D. Livingstone 14 Sept. in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. iv. 101 Having nearly given up the search for Dr. Roscher's point of reaching the Lake..I discovered it in Lesséfa, the accentuated é being sounded as our e in set.

1901 A. H. Francke Sketch Ladakhi Gram. Introd. 1 To facilitate the printing no accentuated letters are used.

2008 A. Schenker in M. Sæbø Hebrew Bible/Old Test. II. a. xii. 283 The Torah was a new issue of the 1492 and 1493 editions. It offers the mere vocalized and accentuated Bible text without commentaries.

1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) at Y At the end of accentuated syllables, when a vowel follows.

1779 Scots Mag. Oct. 517/1 Upon the notes of greater length the ear dwells with more satisfaction, and upon this account they are struck by the performer with greater energy; hence they are termed emphatic or accentuated notes.

1798 A. F. M. Willich tr. J. C. Adelung Three Philol. Ess. ii. p. cxxxviii Thus in emérgency, emplóyment, the syllables mer and ploy are called accentuated syllables.

1819 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (new ed.) Arsis, thesis implies the emphatic or accentuated part of the bar; and arsis the weak, or unaccented part.

1863 E. F. Grauert New Method for Learning Portuguese Lang. (1882) i. xxvii. 89 Substantives ending in an accentuated vowel, in a diphthong or in a vowel preceded by another vowel, take zinho or sinho, not inho.

1916 A. J. Lindo Art of Accompanying i. xi. 66 A corresponding legato figure on a violin, viola or violoncello..has a curious effect of rocking backwards and forwards between the highest and lowest notes, where nothing but the accentuated notes seem to have any definite identity.

1954 S. G. L. Dannett & F. R. Rachel Down Memory Lane 131 The shag is a fast, nervous, hopping dance, performed in time to a strongly accentuated rhythm.

2004 P. Simpson Stylistics a. iv. 15 Metrical patterning should be organised, and in such a way that the alternation between accentuated syllables and weak syllables is repeated.

1817 Lady Morgan France I. vii. 91 He [sc. Napoleon] required that an opera should be a succession of andantes or motivos of marked and accentuated expressions, and demanded the sacrifice of harmony and effect to melody.

1849 Littell's Living Age 13 Jan. 72/2 Where the descent is accomplished by a series of accentuated plunges, any one of which is sufficient to break your neck.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xii. 403 The olive stem retains in youth and middle and old age the distinction of finely accentuated form.

1909 Harper's Mag. Jan. 287/2 The white table with its accentuated notes of pale-green and amber liquor in the glasses.

1937 Life 30 Aug. 13/1 But the angle shot still has its many valid uses: for distortion and symbolism: for heightening, foreshortening and accentuated action.

1971 G. Whiting Old-time Tools & Toys of Needlework 306 Cowichan or Maori uprights, four feet tall and stunningly carved, with accentuated shell eyes in the barbaric faces represented.

2009 J. M. Dionisio tr. C. Miranda Liberation through Yoga ii. xix. 170 Anyone slightly applied to the buddhic body, although with his consciousness focused on any of the other bodies, will have an accentuated feeling for art or devotion.