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commatic, a. rare.|kəˈmætɪk| [ad. late L. commatic-us, a. Gr. κοµµατικός consisting of short clauses: see comma.] Consisting of short clauses or lyric measures; of the nature of a commos.
1844Beck & Felton tr. Munk's Metres 333 The anti⁓strophic commatic songs usually correspond with much art. 1879L. Campbell Sophocles (ed. 2) I. 271 The metre [of Œd. Col.] is studiously varied, above all in the remarkable ‘commatic parodos’. Ibid. 279 The long scene [ll. 720–1043]..broken by short commatic passages. 2. Mus. Relating to the comma, as in commatic temperament, any system of tuning whose object is to dispense with the comma of Didymus, and to make all major tones express the same interval.
1875A. J. Ellis tr. Helmholtz' Sens. of Tone 649 [terminology altered in ed. 2, 1885]. |