mixed mode
noun
1
music : a church mode whose ambitus covers the combined range of an authentic mode and its related plagal mode
2
Lockeanism : a mode (as beauty) resulting from the combination of simple ideas of different kinds —contrasted with simple mode
Word History
First Known Use
circa 1924, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- the past
- the past perfect
- the patience of a saint
- the Peace Corps
- the Pearly Gates
- the peasantry
- the peerage
- the pen
- the penny drops
- the Pentagon
- the people
- the perfect
- the perimeter
- the personal column
- the personals
- the petite bourgeoisie
- the pick of the bunch
- the pick of the litter
- the picture of
- the picture of health
- the pictures
- the pill
- the pipeline
- the pit of one's stomach
- the pit of one's/the stomach