Definition of Cadencies

1. cadency [n] - See also: cadency

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cadencies

caddyss
caddysses
caddywompus
cade
cade oil
cadeau
cadeaux
cadee
cadees
cadelle
cadelle beetle
cadelles
cadence
cadenced
cadences
cadencies (current term)
cadencing
cadency
cadene
cadent
cadential
cadenza
cadenzas
cades
cadet
cadet blue
cadets
cadetship
cadetships
cadette

Literary usage of Cadencies

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

1. Curialia Miscellanea: Or, Anecdotes of Old Times; Regal, Noble, Gentilitial by Samuel Pegge (1818)
"... their Country abounded with such Trees; the Hand grasping a Dagger, for * Nisbet, p. 147. See also Hume's History, ch. xiii. t Nisbet, cadencies, p. 33. ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"In the disposition and conduct of his cadencies, he often approaches to the legitimate structure of the improved blank-verse : but we cannot, suppose, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"cells are genetically mesoblastic, and have similar capacities an" cadencies to those of muscle. Hence, a sarcoma may infiltrate e entire perimysium and ..."

4. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1832)
"Substantives are noi varied by " Cases, cadencies and Endings," except animates, when governed by a verb transitive, when they end in oh, uh, or ah. ..."

5. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"A great many rough cadencies, that are to be found in ... the admirable Paradise Lost," continues the anonymous writer, "are so far from Faults that they ..."

6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1764)
"... that the tones and cadencies of the latter are, by no means, applicable to the farmer. * I am not to learn that the ancients, as well as fome learned ..."

7. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"In the disposition and conduct of his cadencies, he often approaches to the legitimate structure of the improved blank-verse : but we cannot suppose, ..."

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