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Meanings of descant in English
Musical term with several meanings.
Related terms
Portuguese
cantar à tirolesa Spanish
hacer gorgoritos Usage of descant in English
1
He risked glancing up and saw that the descant spell was working.
2
It was very pleasant to hear Mr. Thorne descant on this matter.
3
Presently was mingled with the bird's descant low singing of another kind.
4
He then proceeded to descant upon the general wrongs of horses.
5
Presently he led out an animal and began to descant upon its merits.
6
Aliena having read over his sonnet, began thus pleasantly to descant upon it:
7
But you descant; Is baptism one of the laws of Christ?
8
His amorous descant never fails him: his lute is always by his side.
9
Gladly, did time permit, would I descant upon their great and varied merits.
10
Presently was mingled with the bird's descant another kind of singing.
11
She will not descant upon bodily ailments in the drawing-room or at the table.
12
When he heard its descant, he burst into tears and repeated the following verses:
13
But space forbids us thus to descant on the details of all active exercises.
14
Theologians descant pleasantly upon free moral agency; but they should begin by admitting individual rights.
15
Even now a wood thrush closed his last descant in flute-like notes across the river.
16
Admiration for Priestley increases on hearing him descant on the people about him-onthe natives-
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