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Definition of Meane
1. Noun. (archaic music) The middle voice of a three-voice polyphonic musical composition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meane
1. to lament [v MEANED, MEANING, MEANES] - See also: lament
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meane
Literary usage of Meane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: And by John Payne Collier (1831)
"Of all these partes no parte doth well ' Without the meane, which doth excell.
' To highe, to lowe, to londe, to softe, ' To fewe, to manic at a parte alone ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"By a Kat they meane destruction. By a Flye, they meane ... By the Ant running
into the Corne, they meane provision. By a man walking in water without a hed, ..."
3. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"... much paper without meane or measure." His thoughts are oftener far-fetched
than new or appropriate; and he was overweening in his self- estimate. ..."
4. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"I am not ignorant that many good clerkes be contrary to mine opinion, and say
that the loftie style may be decently vsed in a meane and base subiect & 30 ..."
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