单词 | cadent |
释义 | † cadentn. Obsolete. One of the ‘graces’ in old English music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > grace > specific spinger1659 backfall1676 acciaccatura1749 twiddle1774 beat1804 mordent1806 cadent1879 1879 F. Taylor in Grove Dict. Music I. 43 ‘Shaked graces’ are the Shaked Beat, Backfall, Elevation, and Cadent. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). cadentadj. 1. Falling (literally). Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [adjective] fallingeOE tumblingc1374 falling-downc1384 cadukec1420 rueing1557 downfalling1573 cadenta1616 deciduous1656 decident1674 a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) i. iv. 264 With cadent Teares fret Channels in her cheekes. 1659 J. Arrowsmith Armilla Catechetica 200 We ourselves have seen him Antichrist Cadent. 1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 9 The moaning winds and cadent waters. 2. Astrology. 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). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [adjective] > planet > cadent cadent1579 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ix. 234 If the part of Fortune be Cadent from the Ascendent. 1671 J. Blagrave Astrol. Pract. Physick 164 Fixt Signs, and cadent Houses alwayes signifie the greatest distances. 3. Falling (rhythmically); having cadence. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > rhythmical or measured measurable1569 rhythmetic1603 measured1604 cadent1613 rhythmicala1620 rhythmic1773 cadenceda1790 rhythmetical1801 rhythmed1832 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation > falling rhythmically cadent1613 cadenceda1790 cadential1880 1613 E. Hoby Counter-snarle 13 Il current and worse cadent lines. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 64 Far within those cadent pauses. 1859 F. K. Harford Martyrs of Lyons 24 Unfailing lips those cadent strains prolong. Categories » 4. Geology. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1879adj.1579 |
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