Diapente
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Diapente is a noun meaning (music, obsolete) The interval of the fifth or the harmonic ratio 3:2.
Meaning
(music, obsolete) The interval of the fifth or the harmonic ratio 3:2.
More Meanings
- (medicine, obsolete) A composition of five ingredients.
Example Sentences
1816, Race-horses, method of preparing for running, entry in Encyclopædia Perthensis, 2nd Edition, Volume 18, page 571, If the horse be in good fleſh and ſpirits when taken up for its month′s preparation, the diapente muſt be omitted; and the chief buſineſs will be to give him good food, and ſo much exerciſe as will keep him in wind, without overſweating him or exhauſting his ſpirits.
Word Forms
- diapentes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include semidiapente, diatessaron, disdiapason, decameride, tridiapason, semidiapason.
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