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Volume 21 · 67 words · 1842 Edition

in Grammar, a disturbing or dislocating the words of a discourse, or a changing their natural order of construction, to please the ear, by rendering its contexture more smooth, easy, and harmonious.

in Music, the removal of a piece of music, either in writing or in performing it, into a key higher or lower than the original one. For the principle of this, see Music, p. 610.