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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb & adjective In a majestic and stately manner. Used chiefly as a direction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In music, with dignity or majesty; majestically.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Mus.) Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb music majestically

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian, from maestà, majesty, greatness, from Latin māiestās; see meg- in Indo-European roots.]

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Borrowed from Italian maestoso.

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