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orchestrate, v.|ˈɔːkɪstreɪt|
[f. orchestra + -ate 3, perh. after mod.F. orchestrer (1878 in Dict. Acad.).]
a. trans. To compose or arrange for an orchestra; to score for orchestral performance. Also absol. Hence ˈorchestrated ppl. a.
1880Daily Tel. 19 Feb., This brief and cleverly orchestrated symphony is instinct with profound melancholy. 1882Standard 27 Nov. 3/6 The..song..is capitally written, and orchestrated with notable skill. 1889Pall Mall G. 4 June 2, I got into the way of orchestrating and writing for every instrument. 1896Times 28 Aug. 4/3 A composer who can write sparkling tunes and knows how to orchestrate.
b. fig. To combine harmoniously, like instruments in an orchestra.
1883Blackw. Mag. Oct. 437 A symphony of accordant and orchestrated spirits. 1956H. Whitehall in Kenyon Rev. XVIII. 418 The traditional ‘ideal’ metrical patterns..have been ‘orchestrated’ since Marlowe. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Dec. 789/2 Nostromo, greatest and most splendidly orchestrated of all his fictions. 1967C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol 11 Swinburne's poem Dolores. Here there is a kind of orchestrated language which conveys a mood of meaning but no clearly describable sense. 1969Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 30 Russia and America yesterday ratified the treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons. They chose the same day by a diplomatic agreement typical of the way the two super-Powers are ‘orchestrating’ their moves in this front. 1974Guardian 23 Jan. 2/8 The White House deployed its heavy artillery today... The counter-attack was well orchestrated. 1975N.Y. Times 31 Oct. 11/6 Planning and organization were particularly striking today, when three busloads of foreign journalists were brought to the staging camps on an officially sponsored visit. The enthusiasm that greeted them was as carefully orchestrated as is the march itself. 1977Time 7 Mar. 8/2 Owen helped to orchestrate the European Community's fishing agreement with the Soviet Union. |