Definition of Clausula

1. Noun. (music) The conclusion of a passage; cadence. ¹

2. Noun. The close or end of a historical period; clause. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clausula

1. a short clause [n CLAUSULAE]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clausula

claustral layer
claustration
claustrophile
claustrophiles
claustrophilia
claustrophobe
claustrophobes
claustrophobia
claustrophobias
claustrophobic
claustrophobically
claustrophobics
claustrum
claustrum oris
claustrum virginale
clausula (current term)
clausulae
clausular
clausura
claut
clauted
clauting
clauts
clava
clavacin
claval
clavam
clavaminate synthase
clavams
clavata

Literary usage of Clausula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"clausula. The mediaeval name for what is now called a Cadence, or Close.1 The most important Close employed in Polyphonic Music, is the clausula fera, ..."

2. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"This clausula derogatoria is by the common practical term called clausula ... The clausula de non obstante de futuro, the law judgeth to be idle and of no ..."

3. The Orbis Pictus of John Amos Comeniusby Johann Amos Comenius, Charles William Bardeen by Johann Amos Comenius, Charles William Bardeen (1887)
"Remember these things; fear God, and call upon him, that he may bestow upon thee the Spirit of Wisdom. clausula. Ita vidisti summatim res omnes quae ..."

4. Collectanea Anglo-premonstratensia: Documents Drawn from the Original by Francis Aidan Gasquet, Premonstratensians (1904)
"... collecta sub una clausula ? Utram in Dominicis diebus post Natale Domini ante Purifica- tionem infra ..."

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