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6 words match “DORIAN”

DORIAN a. 3 definitions
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.
ISIDORIAN a.
Pertaining, or ascribed, to Isidore; as, the Isidorian decretals, a spurious collection of decretals published in the ninth century.
DORIC a.
Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
GREGORIAN a.
l scales ordained by Pope Gregory the Great, and named after the ancient Greek scales, as Dorian, Lydian, etc. -- Gregorian telescope (Opt.), a form of reflecting telescope, named from Prof. James Gregory, of Edinburgh, who perfected it in 1663. A small concave mirror in the axis of this telescope, having its focus co…
MODE n.
The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
TO prep.
his guitar; they danced to the music of a piano. Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders. Milton.