Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Greek music, dilated or extended: applied both to particular intervals and to a general heroic quality in a melody.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
diastalsis
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Examples
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That is, when above the diastaltic arc where the mechanical formation of the language is still unconscious, the recognition of the word takes place, that is, the word is perceived and associated with the object which it represents, language is considered to have begun.
The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912
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Thus for example in the scheme which Kussmaul gives on the mechanism of articulate language we must first of all distinguish a sort of cerebral diastaltic arc (representing the pure mechanism of the word), which is established in the first formation of the spoken language.
The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912
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His important discovery of the diastaltic nervous system, by which his name will long be known amongst scientific men, originated in an exceedingly simple circumstance.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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