Euouae

Quick meaning: Euouae is a noun meaning (by extension) A cadence used to sing those words of the Gloria Patri.

Meaning

(by extension) A cadence used to sing those words of the Gloria Patri.

More Meanings

1. In medieval music, a mnemonic for the Latin words saeculōrum and āmēn (from “ […] in saecula saeculōrum. Āmēn.” from the Gloria Patri doxology), used in liturgical works to indicate how the words should be sung with various cadences.

Example Sentences

Under mode four, the incipit to the antiphon "Ex Egypto" and its EVOVAE are given as follows […]

[T]he notes set to euouae presented in the example are the differentiae, or termination formulas, for that particular rendering of the psalm.

[H]er leaves, my darling dearest, sinsinsinning since the night of time and each and all of their branches meeting and shaking twisty hands all over again in their new world through the germination of its germination from Ond's outset till Odd's end. And encircle him circuly. Evovae!

In the publicke ſervice of the Romiſh Maſſe there are words truly ridiculous, and which never were other then worthleſſe, as Evovae, Miſerere nobis, & Stabat mater doloroſa, and many the like, which nevertheleſſe in the Church of Rome are not ridiculous, becauſe they are authoriſed by the divine ſervice.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include evovae, naenia, amenaunce, eame, farse, abwe.

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