Middle English Dictionary Entry
cādence n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cādence n. Also cadens. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Rhythm of prose or poetry; rhetorical periods; the use of rhythm or rhetorical periods.
Associated quotations
- c1390 Talking LGod (Vrn)2/17 : Men schal fynden lihtliche þis tretys in Cadence..& Rymed in sum stude.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.2414 : And Heredot in his science Of metre, of rime, and of cadence The ferste was of which men note.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)prol.362 : He enlvmyneth by crafte & cadence This noble story with many fresche colour Of rethorik.
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)440/30 : Callyope lyst nat..The tenbelysshe with colours off cadence.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Hrl 1766)9.3390 : Though Omerus hold nat the torche lyght To forthre my penne with colours of cadence.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)623 : To make bookys, songes, dytees, In ryme, or elles in cadence.
- a1456 Shirley Ashm.IE (Ashm 59)332 : Here now foloweþe nexst a scripture in latyn, prosed in feyre cadence.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)3027 : Go, litil book..Thi writer eek, pray him to taken hede Of thi cadence and kepe Ortographie.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)178/8 : We bere þe prysse of gramer, cadens, and of prosodye.