Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A leader; a chief; specifically, the head or chief pupil of a class or division in some public schools.
- noun In music, the subject or theme of a fugue: distinguished from the comes or answer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the
comes , or companion.
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- noun UK The top academic student in a
school , or in ayear of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline. - noun historical A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.
- noun music The
subject of afugue , answered by thecomes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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By comparison, the mantle of the giant squid, Architeuthis dux, is not known to attain more than 2.25 metres.
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Tacitus [103] styles Vespasian dux, which is not a strictly official title, but exactly describes his actual duty.
Was Christ Born in Bethlehem? 1851-1939 1898
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Byzantium, Gaeta had then, like Naples and Amalfi, a republican form of government under a "dux" or lord.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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A Duke is a "dux" or "leader;" the flying wedge of cranes is under a "ducal monarch" -- a very different personage from a queen bee.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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"from someone considered a dictator" - hehe. yes, there's so much malignity in italy, poor mussolini. and people have always ignored that "dux" was referred to his horse ... well friends - do you need a joke teller to revive some events or enlighten some party? we have a prime minister available. in tour now, great success in paris.
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Tom Compson Trumble went to school at Brighton Grammar School, metriculated at the very early age of sixteen, and was dux of the school.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Scolese would be Griffin re-dux: the self-absorbed "I'm the smartest guy in the room" technical type, except more Machiavellian with less hard technical skill.
Who's the boss? For now Christopher Scolese, Sort of - NASA Watch 2009
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Grab the dux and dawg at noon and head for the houseboat and the Propane fireplace.
Why You Miss Ducks (And Other Insights From Our Waterfowl Guide Survey) 2009
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Grab the dux and dawg at noon and head for the houseboat and the Propane fireplace.
Why You Miss Ducks (And Other Insights From Our Waterfowl Guide Survey) 2009
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In the Apologus to his translation of Plato's De regno, dedicated to Montefeltro on 6 January 1482, Marsilio Ficino plays on the duke's name, describing in a witticism that Federico was known as "a fide regia fideregum" and "ab orbis imperio Orbinatem ducem" by superior intelligences and as "Federicus Urbinas dux" by men. 137
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
qms commented on the word dux
Your typical high muckamucks
Are experts at passing the bucks.
Avoiding all blame
Is part of their game -
A skill that is learned as a dux.
July 8, 2015
TankHughes commented on the word dux
My brother was part of the Dead Language Society in high school, and I memorized the phrase on the back of his shirt:
"Sibili si ergo, fortibuses inero. Nobili demis trux: sewatis enim? Cowsendux!"
It's nonsense in Latin, but if you say it out loud it's a dumb catchy poem that you've made a suite for in your permanent memory banks.
July 8, 2015