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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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Templars 9,000 maneria, word of much higher import (as Ducange has rightly observed) in the English than in the French idiom.
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