Word Meanings - CADENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See CADENCY (more info) 1. The act or state of declining or sinking. Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton. 2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. 3.

Additional info about word: CADENCE

See CADENCY (more info) 1. The act or state of declining or sinking. Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton. 2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. 3. A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet. Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull Seafaring men o'erwatched. Milton. The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. Sir W. Scott. 4. Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. Golden cadence of poesy. Shak. If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said to be "prosed in faire cadence." Dr. Guest.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CADENCE)

• Desinence
• Termination
• conclusion
• cessation
• discontinuance
• cadence
• period
• finality

Related words: (words related to CADENCE)

• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• PERIOD
  One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end;
• TERMINATION
  The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection. (more info) 1. The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. 2. That
• PERIODICALLY
  In a periodical manner.
• PERIODIDE
  An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
• CESSATION
  A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward.
• PERIODICALNESS
  Periodicity.
• CADENCE
  See CADENCY (more info) 1. The act or state of declining or sinking. Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton. 2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. 3.
• PERIODOSCOPE
  A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women. Dunglison.
• DISCONTINUANCE
  1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel. A
• PERIODATE
  A salt of periodic acid.
• PERIODICITY
  The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. Henfrey.
• DESINENCE
  Termination; ending. Bp. Hall.
• CONCLUSION
  The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism. He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion. Addison. 5. Drawing
• PERIODICAL
  A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.
• PERIODICALIST
  One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.
• PERIODIC
  Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO
• FINALITY
  1. The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. Baxter. 2. The relation of end or purpose to its means. Janet.
• MISCONCLUSION
  An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• ALABAMA PERIOD
  A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
• NIAGARA PERIOD
  A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of
• UNDETERMINATION
  Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.
• DECADENCE; DECADENCY
  A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.' Sir W. Scott.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• DEMICADENCE
  An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.
• TRENTON PERIOD
  A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.