Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Cadence.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Regularity of movement; rhythmical accord.
- n. In heraldry, the relative status of younger sons. Also brisure.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of cadence.
- n. heraldry Any systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same family.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a recurrent rhythmical series
Examples
“Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)”
“What were the peculiar marks of cadency used by the heirs to the crown, apparent and presumptive, after the accession of the Stuarts?”
“This eliminates the need for an elaborate system of cadency, though to prevent confusion, the spouse's and heir's arms are differenced.”
“It begins with ease, rises gradually till the voice is inflected, then sinks again, and ends with a just cadency, And perhaps there is not a word in it, whole situation would be altered to an advantage.”
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
“In relation to the use of personal arms, although in England the ordinary rule and practice were usually observed, elsewhere an ecclesiastic seldom made use of any marks of cadency.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“But the omission of cadency marks does not appear to have been a matter of universally accepted rule.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“Of the natural sons of princes something could be made, as witness the dazzling career of Anne's own father; but for natural daughters -- and especially for one who, like herself, bore a double load of cadency -- there was little use or hope.”
“The lions and lilies shone over the high dorseret chair in the center, and the same august device marked with the cadency label indicated the seat of the Prince, while glowing to right and to left were the long lines of noble insignia, honored in peace and terrible in war.”
“Certainly no quarter of a town could use a mark of cadency below a bendlet, and Florence was more careful than most Italian towns to be precise in her heraldry.”
“The lions and lilies shone over the high dorseret chair in the center, and the same august device marked with the cadency label indicated the seat of the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cadency’.
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Heraldica
any and all things heraldry related.
tressure, trefoil, estoile, ermine, fesse, gules, azure, bend, bendlet, escutcheon, passant guardant, or and 58 more...
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List of Heraldry Terms
Words and phrases used in blazoning heraldic devices, along with names and other terms associated with the art and science.
Other similar lists can be found on Wordnik, especially that...seiant, duciper, bourdon, pouch, scrip, staff, ananas, besant d'argent, roundle, roundel, argent, allocamelus and 743 more...
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Medieval heraldry...
or what I can remember of it.
gules, argent, or, azure, vert, fess, bend, sinister, chief, chevron, ermine, fleur-de-lys and 68 more...
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with a sense of adoration
becomma, aesthetic, cadency, catharsis, chantepleure, meraki, mediaeval, pianoter, subvocalisation, tempestuous, tulle, serendipity and 32 more...
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maesepedro's Words
wit, dignity, river, funk, rhythm, embezzlement, schlock, phraseology, shucks, catch, exchequer, retrocessonaire and 70 more...
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chained_bear In heraldry, a mark of cadency indicates descent of a younger branch from the main line of a family; a cadet line. Feb 4, 2007