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harmonically, adv.|hɑːˈmɒnɪkəlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] †1. In the way of harmony or agreement; agreeingly, harmoniously. (Sometimes fig. from 2.) Obs.
1604T. Wright Passions v. § 3. 175 A flexible..voice, accommodated in manner correspondent to the matter..conueyeth the passion most aptly..and almost harmonically. 1613F. Robartes Rev. Gosp. 65 What point soeuer the fathers do harmonically and with consent of all, agreeingly maintain. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xiii. 265 One and the same spirit harmonically works in all believers through the world. †2. With harmony or concord of sounds; concordantly, tunefully, harmoniously. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. i. (Arb.) 79 Poesie is a skill to speake and write harmonically. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 109 A Lute..though never so Harmonically Set and Tuned, yields no Musick till its Strings be artfully touched. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 88 ⁋3 The sounds of the consonants are less harmonically conjoined. 3. Mus. In relation to harmony.
1775Steele in Phil. Trans. LXV. 74 These two specimens of melody..are harmonically the same, though rhythmically different. 1880C. H. H. Parry in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 676 Otherwise they [the chords] would have no notes in common and the connection between them harmonically would not be ostensible. 4. Math. In a harmonic relation or proportion.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. Annot. ({ergo}) ij, If you diuide the same [diapason] harmonically. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1255 Plato..intending to declare harmonically the harmony of the foure elements of the soule..in each interval hath put downe two medieties of the soule, and that acording to musical proportion. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 745 One only line cut in three parts, which Line he calls cut harmonically. 1706W. Jones Syn. Palmar. Matheseos 79 When 3 Terms are so disposed..they are said to be Harmonically Proportional. 1882C. Smith Conic Sect. (1885) 53 If PQRS be a harmonic range, then Q and S are said to be harmonically conjugate with respect to P and R. |