Mese
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mese is a noun meaning To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.
Meaning
To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.
More Meanings
- (musical pitch) In Ancient Greek musical theory, the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth above the hypate, with two movable notes between them, the parhypate (lower in pitch) and the lichanos (higher in pitch). The mese was lower than the paramese (the lower-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 8:9.
- (obsolete) A dinner; meal.
Word Forms
- meses
- mesing
- mesed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ra, mease, mess, meat, meal, mesele.
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