bobization

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  1. In music, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a general term for the various methods of naming the tones of the scale (for convenience of reference and accuracy of singing) by syllables. See solmization, bebization, bocedization, damenization, labecedization.

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  1. from bo + bi, syllables used in singing, + -z-ation.
 

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