Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony.
Wiktionary
- adj. melodic and song-like.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a melody (as distinguished from recitative)
Etymologies
- from Italian arioso (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us were added to form an ariose hymn of praise that was sung the first time during Christmas mass and then in all feast days.”
General Audience: God’s glory, peace and man’s salvation in Christmas
“Without being at all ariose, the symphony is full of melody.”
“Dreaming," which is now sombre, now fierce with outbursts of agony, but always a melody, always ariose.”
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Logolepsy
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Miscellany, pt. a
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