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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Gregorian music, a mixed mode—that is, one that includes the compass both of an authentic and of its plagal mode. Polyphonic music for unequal voices is necessarily thus written. See
mode , 7.
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Hospitallers 19,000, to the Templars 9,000 maneria, word of much higher import (as Ducange has rightly observed) in the English than in the
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Templars 9,000 maneria, word of much higher import (as Ducange has rightly observed) in the English than in the French idiom.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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