Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ancient Greek music, same as concord or consonance.
- n. In medieval music, a name applied to several distinct instruments, such as the bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, or virginal.
- n. Same as symphony.
- n. A genus of polypetalous plants, of the order Guttiferæ and tribe Moronobeæ. It is characterized by globose flowers with short sepals, erect convolute petals, and a columnar stamen-tube of five elongated lobes bearing three or four anthers below the apex. The 5 species are all conflned to Madagascar. They are trees or shrubs with thin but coriaceous leaves having crowded parallel veins proceeding from the midrib. The large terminal flowers are commonly scarlet and grouped in somewhat umbellate panicles, followed by globose or ovoid berries. The hog-gum tree is referred by some to this genus as S. globulifera. See Moronobea, hog gum, and karamani-resin.
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“Russia embraced Christianity just over a millennium ago and belongs to the Eastern Orthodox tradition, which split from the Western church in the 11th century and posits the ideal of "symphonia," or cooperation between church and state.”
“[44] Not only Macedonian words, such as symphonia [45] and psanterion, but the texture of the”
“(Soundbite of symphony by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) HOFFMAN: By the way, Renee, this is a little portion of a symphonia or symphony by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, the famous Bach's youngest son.”
“In tempore opportuno - symphonia Anfractiarum - ideo ergo non fumeo herbam datum.... et cetera, et cetera.”
“Ante primum millenarium procedit copiosa symphonia dulcis chordarum, sicut de violis, cytharis, lyris, et psalterijs, non autem de tubis aut tympanis: et præcedunt Baronis per transuersum”
“Imperatoris Barones adornati nobilissimè pro cuiusque decentia balteis, et indumentis, quorum primus cum resonante symphonia præmittit ad oblationem quotquot valet de dextrarijs albis, et inclinans ante thronum pertransit, atque per eundem modum singuli”
“Dum quis hic infirmatur tendit proximus ad Idolum sciscitans an morietur, et si respondit non, addit et dicere medicinam qua curabitur: si autem responderit moriturum, statim conuocatis amicis occiditur, et cum symphonia, et solemnitate comedunt eius carnes, ossa tantummodò sepelientes.”
“Ante primum millenarium procedit copiosa symphonia dulcis chordarum, sicut de violis, cytharis, lyris, et psalterijs, non autem de tubis aut tympanis: et pr鎐edunt Baronis per transuersum”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Imperatoris Barones adornati nobilissim� pro cuiusque decentia balteis, et indumentis, quorum primus cum resonante symphonia pr鎚ittit ad oblationem quotquot valet de dextrarijs albis, et inclinans ante thronum pertransit, atque per eundem modum singuli”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Dum quis hic infirmatur tendit proximus ad Idolum sciscitans an morietur, et si respondit non, addit et dicere medicinam qua curabitur: si autem responderit moriturum, statim conuocatis amicis occiditur, et cum symphonia, et solemnitate comedunt eius carnes, ossa tantummod� sepelientes.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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phono-, phon-, -phony
relating to sound
phonograph, phonics, phonology, telephony, phoneme, phone, telephone, phonautograph, phonetic, phonebook, phonography, phonolite and 107 more...
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