Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone or of semitones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
semitone .
Etymologies
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semitone + -ic
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Examples
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At times diction may assume what may be called a _pathetic drift_, and for the suitable interpretation of this drift semitonic intervals may be used, and the mode of progression cease for a space to be diatonic and become semitonic, or _chromatic_, as it is called.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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