单词 | caoine |
释义 | caoinen. = keen n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lamentation or expression of grief for death > [noun] > instance or act of lamenting caoine1707 ullagone1819 tangi1836 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lament, elegy, or dirge threne?a1475 elegy?1521 deploration1537 coronach1559 dirge1568 requiem1578 monodia1594 threnos1601 threnody1634 monody1645 lament1698 caoine1707 whillaloo1790 keen1830 tangi1836 threnode1858 commos1879 1707 E. Lhuyd Archæologia Britannica 309 Caoine is a sort of Verse used in Elegies or Funeral Poems; and sometimes also in Panegyricks and Satyrs. Each versicle of a Caoine consists of only four Feet, and each Foot most commonly of two Syllables. 1844 T. C. Croker in Percy Soc. Early Eng. Poetry XIII. p. ix, Keen which is here written according to its sound to the English ear, is, in its correct modern orthography, Caòine. 1916 C. V. Stanford & C. Forsyth Hist. Mus. x. 212 The principal styles [of Irish folk-music] are the songs, reels, jigs, caoines. 1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) II. 50/1 The caoine is identical with the qínah of the Old Testament, where it is a lamentation for the death by professional wailing-women. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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