quinible

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  1. In music, an interval of a fifth; a descant sung at the fifth. Therto he song som tyme a loud quynyble. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, l. 146. To sing a quinible means to descant by singing fifths on a plain-song. Chappell, Popular Music of the Olden Time, p. 34.
  2. In music, to sing a descant at the interval of a fifth. See diaphony, 2.

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  1. Middle English quynible, ult. from Latin quinque = English five. Cf. quatrible.
  2. from quinible, n.
 

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