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▪ I. te1, ti Mus.|tiː|
Also tee.
Now the more usual name, in English-speaking countries, of si. Cf. tonic sol-fa s.v. tonic a. 3 b.
1839S. A. Glover Scheme for rendering Psalmody Congregational (ed. 2) 41 Te is the subsemitone or leading half tone below the tonic. 1889Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 144/1 Tonic Sol-fa... The ancient sound-names do, re, mi, etc...are put before a class..in the form of a printed picture of the scale, called a ‘Modulator’. For simplicity's sake they are spelt English-wise, and si is called te to avoid having two names with the same initial letter. 1944W. Apfel Harvard Dict. Mus. 690/1 The syllables mostly used today are: do.., re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (ti). 1969Listener 31 July 162/2 Everything becomes dubious if you suddenly decide to make tee a new doh. 1980C. Headington Illustr. Dict. Mus. Terms 134/1 Solmisation, a system of designating the notes of a diatonic scale by syllables..do, re, mi, fa, sol.., la, ti.
▪ II. ‖ te2|də|
Also Te, teh, tih.
[Chinese dé virtue.]
a. In Taoism, the essence of Tao inherent in all beings.
b. In Confucianism and in extended use, moral virtue.
1895G. G. Alexander Lâo-Tsze: Great Thinker 123 It is very puzzling to know when ‘tĭh’ is to be treated as a Divine attribute, and when it is to be taken as a moral virtue. 1904W. G. Old tr. Laotze's Bk. of Simple Way li. 114 Tao brings forth, and Teh nourishes. 1912[see li3]. 1934A. D. Waley Way & its Power 32 Hence tê means a latent power, a ‘virtue’ inherent in something. 1955E. Herbert Taoist Notebk. 18 If allowed free play..these gifts of Tê were ample to insure the orderly progression of ‘heaven and earth’, the disciplined march of ‘the ten thousand creatures’, all in their ranks and all in step with Tao. 1963D. C. Lau Lao Tzu 42 Te means ‘virtue’, and seems to be related to its homophone meaning ‘to get’. In its Taoist usage, te refers to the virtue of a thing (which is what it ‘gets’ from the tao). In other words, te is the nature of a thing, because it is in virtue of its te that a thing is what it is. 1975C.-Y. Chang Tao xxxviii. 107 The real meaning of Tê is thus the attainment of the self-cultivation of non-discrimination, non-differentiation, and above all, non-willing.
▪ III. te
var. tee v.1 Obs.; obs. f. to prep.
▪ IV. te
ME. assimilated form of the, thee, after dentals, etc.: see T 8. |