chromaticadj.n.

/krəʊˈmatɪk/

Forms: Also 1600s cromatick, 1600s–1700s chromatique.

Etymology: < Latin chrōmaticus or Greek χρωματικός (chiefly in the musical sense), < χρῶμα colour. Compare French chromatique.

A. adj.

I. Pertaining to colour.

a. Of or belonging to colour or colours; consisting of or produced by colour. (Chiefly a scientific technical term.)

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the world > matter > colour > [adjective]

colorific1751

chromatic1841

colorative1879

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [adjective]

dispersive1802

chromatic1841

photochromatic1856

1841–44 R. W. Emerson Nominalist & Realist in Wks. (1906) I. 251 I read for the lustres, as if one should use a fine picture in a chromatic experiment, for its rich colours.

1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 xii. 97 The chromatic splendours of our atmosphere.

1869 G. H. Napheys Physical Life Woman iv. (1878) 322 Chromatic memory, or the memory of colors.

1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings vii. 149 Though green is the prevailing hue..yet the whole chromatic scale may be seen illustrated in the foliage of plants.

b. chromatic aberration: the non-convergence of the different coloured constituents of white light to one focus, when refracted through a lens (see aberration n. 3); also called chromatic dispersion. chromatic function: see quot. 1881¹. chromatic printing: printing from blocks or types inked with various colours.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [noun]

chromatic dispersion1831

chromatism1854

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics ix. §66. 80 The extreme red rays..will be found to have their focus in R..the extreme violet rays..will be refracted to a focus V much nearer the lens..The distance VR is called the chromatic aberration.

1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 177 The second defect, chromatic dispersion, arising from the unequal refrangibility of the light.

1881 K. Semper Animal Life 91 Pouchet applied the term chromatic function to that adaptation of colour to the surroundings of the creature which is indirectly the result of sight.

1881 W. B. Carpenter Microscope i. 13 The Chromatic error is scarcely perceptible.

2. Full of colour, brightly or highly coloured.

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the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > colourful

prankedc1550

colourable1607

coloury1721

colourful1848

chromatic1864

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 23 Dec. Magnificently varied tints, now dazzlingly chromatic, now mellow.

1876 J. Ellis Caesar in Egypt 30 Along the floor, Chromatic, tesselate with marbles rare.

1880 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxxi. 6 The cover still retains its rich chromatic character.

†3. Apparently transl. Greek χρωματικός, ‘in Rhetoric, florid, elaborate, artificial’ (Liddell & Scott).

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective]

overwrittenOE

flourished1303

orne?a1425

ornatea1450

purpuratec1475

gallant1484

flourishinga1552

gorgeous1561

coloured1571

flowerya1616

ornated1630

flosculent1646

luscious1651

chromatic1652

romantic1653

gaudy1655

florid1656

blooming1685

bloomy1685

dressy1713

colouring1807

colorific1812

emblazoned1813

embroidered1868

purple1941

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 279 Figurative expressions..whether..Paradiastolary, Antipophoretick, Cromatick, or any other way of figurating a speech by opposition.

4. See quot. [cf. Isidore x. 45 Chromaticus, quia non confunditur, nec colorem mutat.]

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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Chromatick (chromaticus) that never blusheth, whose colour never changeth.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.)

1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.

II. Music.

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a. The name given to one of the three kinds of tetrachords in Greek music, the others being the diatonic and the enharmonic.

b. In modern music: Pertaining to or including notes which do not belong to the diatonic scale; admitting notes which are marked with accidentals, and are not normal to the scale of the passage where they occur, but which do not cause modulation. chromatic scale: a scale which proceeds by semitones. chromatic semitone: the interval between a note and the same note flattened or sharpened; e.g. A—A♯, B♭—B.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [adjective] > other scales

chromatic1603

octachordala1661

octachord1761

hendecachordal1842

tritonous1847

pentatonic1864

pentaphonic1881

melodic1889

heptatonic1890

gapped1910

twelve-tone1926

twelve-note1928

hexatonic1930

octatonic1963

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶^v Practical [music]..is of three kindes: Diatonicum, chromaticum, and Enharmonicum.]

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 682 Agathon..first brought up the Chromaticke musicke.

1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Gloss. Chromaticke Musicke, was soft, delicate and effeminate, ful of descant, fained voices and quavering, as some are of opinion.

?1630 J. Milton At Solemn Musick MS. reading (T.) Those harsh chromatick jars Of sin that all our musick mars.

1655 Campion's Art of composing Musick in Parts in J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick ii. 37 The second Note..made flat by the cromaticke flat signe.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 180 His wild Irish and chromatic Tones.

a1692 T. Shadwell Volunteers (1693) iii. i. 27 Ah, that's fine, that's Chromatick, I love Chromatick Musick mightily.

1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 72 A Ring of Bells tuned to Chromatick Intervals.

1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iv. 55 Chromatic tortures soon shall drive them hence.

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 31 The regular diatonic scale consisted..of tones and semitones; the chromatic, of semitones and minor thirds.

1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 116 The ‘Crucifixus’..often displays chromatic harmony, wrought up to the highest pitch of the awful and sublime.

1881 G. A. Macfarren Counterpoint (ed. 3) iii. 5 A scale is chromatic when the seven diatonic notes are interspersed with the five inflected notes.

c. transferred of persons, etc.

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1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 29. ¶13 Musick is not design'd to please only Chromatick Ears, but all that are capable of distinguishing harsh from disagreeable Notes.

1774 Foote in Westm. Mag. 2 376 From squeaking Monarchs and Chromatic Queens..I come.

B. n.

†1. Painting. The art of colouring. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun]

chromatic1695

blazonry1814

polychromy1845

1695 J. Dryden tr. C. A. Dufresnoy De Arte Graphica in Wks. (1989) XX. xxx. 96 [The third part] of painting, which is called the chromatick or colouring.

1761 Brit. Mag. 2 541 Zeuxis..excelled all his contemporaries in the chromatique, or art of colouring.

2. chromatics n. The science of colour.

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the world > matter > colour > science of colour > [noun]

chromatics?1790

chromatology1846

colourology1903

?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 199 Optics..consist of three parts, viz. Catoptrics, Dioptrics, and Chromatics.

1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings i. 17 Sidereal chromatics have become a distinct branch of study.

1881 Knowledge No. 5. 98 A statement..with respect to..the solar spectrum..set forth in other similar works upon chromatics.

3. plural. Chromatic notes, harmonies, etc.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > accidental altering > a note accidentally altered

fict voice1609

chromatics1708

chromaticism1879

1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Chromaticks, a pleasant and delightful sort of Musick.

1794 J. Wolcot in Wks. (1812) III. 236 The ear with harsh chromatics must be teas'd, Grown much too fashionable to be pleas'd.

1833 Athenæum 16 Nov. 762 I play the flute—she heeds not my chromatics.

Compounds

chromatic audition n. = coloured audition n. at coloured adj. and n. Compounds.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	chromatic
释义	chromaticadj.n. /krəʊˈmatɪk/ Forms: Also 1600s cromatick, 1600s–1700s chromatique. Etymology: < Latin chrōmaticus or Greek χρωματικός (chiefly in the musical sense), < χρῶμα colour. Compare French chromatique. A. adj. I. Pertaining to colour. 1. a. Of or belonging to colour or colours; consisting of or produced by colour. (Chiefly a scientific technical term.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > [adjective] colorific1751 chromatic1841 colorative1879 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [adjective] dispersive1802 chromatic1841 photochromatic1856 1841–44 R. W. Emerson Nominalist & Realist in Wks. (1906) I. 251 I read for the lustres, as if one should use a fine picture in a chromatic experiment, for its rich colours. 1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 xii. 97 The chromatic splendours of our atmosphere. 1869 G. H. Napheys Physical Life Woman iv. (1878) 322 Chromatic memory, or the memory of colors. 1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings vii. 149 Though green is the prevailing hue..yet the whole chromatic scale may be seen illustrated in the foliage of plants. b. chromatic aberration: the non-convergence of the different coloured constituents of white light to one focus, when refracted through a lens (see aberration n. 3); also called chromatic dispersion. chromatic function: see quot. 1881¹. chromatic printing: printing from blocks or types inked with various colours. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [noun] chromatic dispersion1831 chromatism1854 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics ix. §66. 80 The extreme red rays..will be found to have their focus in R..the extreme violet rays..will be refracted to a focus V much nearer the lens..The distance VR is called the chromatic aberration. 1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 177 The second defect, chromatic dispersion, arising from the unequal refrangibility of the light. 1881 K. Semper Animal Life 91 Pouchet applied the term chromatic function to that adaptation of colour to the surroundings of the creature which is indirectly the result of sight. 1881 W. B. Carpenter Microscope i. 13 The Chromatic error is scarcely perceptible. 2. Full of colour, brightly or highly coloured. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > colourful prankedc1550 colourable1607 coloury1721 colourful1848 chromatic1864 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 23 Dec. Magnificently varied tints, now dazzlingly chromatic, now mellow. 1876 J. Ellis Caesar in Egypt 30 Along the floor, Chromatic, tesselate with marbles rare. 1880 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxxi. 6 The cover still retains its rich chromatic character. †3. Apparently transl. Greek χρωματικός, ‘in Rhetoric, florid, elaborate, artificial’ (Liddell & Scott). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] overwrittenOE flourished1303 orne?a1425 ornatea1450 purpuratec1475 gallant1484 flourishinga1552 gorgeous1561 coloured1571 flowerya1616 ornated1630 flosculent1646 luscious1651 chromatic1652 romantic1653 gaudy1655 florid1656 blooming1685 bloomy1685 dressy1713 colouring1807 colorific1812 emblazoned1813 embroidered1868 purple1941 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 279 Figurative expressions..whether..Paradiastolary, Antipophoretick, Cromatick, or any other way of figurating a speech by opposition. 4. See quot. [cf. Isidore x. 45 Chromaticus, quia non confunditur, nec colorem mutat.] ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Chromatick (chromaticus) that never blusheth, whose colour never changeth. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) 1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. Music. 5. Thesaurus » Categories » a. The name given to one of the three kinds of tetrachords in Greek music, the others being the diatonic and the enharmonic. b. In modern music: Pertaining to or including notes which do not belong to the diatonic scale; admitting notes which are marked with accidentals, and are not normal to the scale of the passage where they occur, but which do not cause modulation. chromatic scale: a scale which proceeds by semitones. chromatic semitone: the interval between a note and the same note flattened or sharpened; e.g. A—A♯, B♭—B. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [adjective] > other scales chromatic1603 octachordala1661 octachord1761 hendecachordal1842 tritonous1847 pentatonic1864 pentaphonic1881 melodic1889 heptatonic1890 gapped1910 twelve-tone1926 twelve-note1928 hexatonic1930 octatonic1963 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶^v Practical [music]..is of three kindes: Diatonicum, chromaticum, and Enharmonicum.] 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 682 Agathon..first brought up the Chromaticke musicke. 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Gloss. Chromaticke Musicke, was soft, delicate and effeminate, ful of descant, fained voices and quavering, as some are of opinion. ?1630 J. Milton At Solemn Musick MS. reading (T.) Those harsh chromatick jars Of sin that all our musick mars. 1655 Campion's Art of composing Musick in Parts in J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick ii. 37 The second Note..made flat by the cromaticke flat signe. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 180 His wild Irish and chromatic Tones. a1692 T. Shadwell Volunteers (1693) iii. i. 27 Ah, that's fine, that's Chromatick, I love Chromatick Musick mightily. 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 72 A Ring of Bells tuned to Chromatick Intervals. 1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iv. 55 Chromatic tortures soon shall drive them hence. 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 31 The regular diatonic scale consisted..of tones and semitones; the chromatic, of semitones and minor thirds. 1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 116 The ‘Crucifixus’..often displays chromatic harmony, wrought up to the highest pitch of the awful and sublime. 1881 G. A. Macfarren Counterpoint (ed. 3) iii. 5 A scale is chromatic when the seven diatonic notes are interspersed with the five inflected notes. c. transferred of persons, etc. ΚΠ 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 29. ¶13 Musick is not design'd to please only Chromatick Ears, but all that are capable of distinguishing harsh from disagreeable Notes. 1774 Foote in Westm. Mag. 2 376 From squeaking Monarchs and Chromatic Queens..I come. B. n. †1. Painting. The art of colouring. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] chromatic1695 blazonry1814 polychromy1845 1695 J. Dryden tr. C. A. Dufresnoy De Arte Graphica in Wks. (1989) XX. xxx. 96 [The third part] of painting, which is called the chromatick or colouring. 1761 Brit. Mag. 2 541 Zeuxis..excelled all his contemporaries in the chromatique, or art of colouring. 2. chromatics n. The science of colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > science of colour > [noun] chromatics?1790 chromatology1846 colourology1903 ?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 199 Optics..consist of three parts, viz. Catoptrics, Dioptrics, and Chromatics. 1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings i. 17 Sidereal chromatics have become a distinct branch of study. 1881 Knowledge No. 5. 98 A statement..with respect to..the solar spectrum..set forth in other similar works upon chromatics. 3. plural. Chromatic notes, harmonies, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > accidental altering > a note accidentally altered fict voice1609 chromatics1708 chromaticism1879 1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Chromaticks, a pleasant and delightful sort of Musick. 1794 J. Wolcot in Wks. (1812) III. 236 The ear with harsh chromatics must be teas'd, Grown much too fashionable to be pleas'd. 1833 Athenæum 16 Nov. 762 I play the flute—she heeds not my chromatics. Compounds chromatic audition n. = coloured audition n. at coloured adj. and n. Compounds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1603
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