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DIAPASON n. 5 definitions
f notes an octave apart; harmony. The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason. Milton.
DISDIAPASON n.
An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason.
SEMIDIAPASON n.
An imperfect octave.
TRIDIAPASON n.
A triple octave, or twenty-second. Busby.
DIAPASE n.
Same as Diapason. [Obs.] A tuneful diapase of pleasures. Spenser.
FULL adv.
hly; completely; exactly; entirely. The pawn I proffer shall be full as good. Dryden. The diapason closing full in man. Dryden. Full in the center of the sacred wood. Addison.
OPEN a.
ersons who have been baptized by immersion. Cf. Close communion, under Close, a. -- Open diapason (Mus.), a certain stop in an organ, in which the pipes or tubes are formed like the mouthpiece of a flageolet at the end where the wind enters, and are open at the other end. -- Open flank (Fort.), the part of the flank…