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单词 cadent
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cadentn.

Etymology: < cadence n.
Obsolete.
One of the ‘graces’ in old English music.
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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.

/ˈkeɪdənt/
Etymology: < Latin cadent-em, present participle of cadĕre to fall.
1. Falling (literally). Obsolete or archaic.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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