gamutn.

Brit.

/ˈɡamət/, U.S.

/ˈɡæmət/

Forms: late Middle English 1600s gamma-ut, late Middle English–1600s gammoth, late Middle English– gamut, 1500s game vt, 1500s gamma vt, 1500s gammouthe, 1500s gam vt, 1500s–1600s gamma ut, 1500s–1600s gammuth, 1500s–1600s gam ut, 1500s–1600s gam-vt, 1500s–1700s gammut, 1600s gammaut, 1600s gammoothe, 1600s gammot, 1600s gamoth, 1600s gamouth, 1600s gam-ut, 1600s gamuth.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin gamut, gamma ut.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin gamut (also gamma ut; both 13th cent.) < gamma gamma n. + ut ut n. Compare earlier gamme n.On the origin and development of the musical uses see note at sense 2.

I. Musical uses.

1. The lowest note on the medieval sequence of hexachords (see sense 2a). In later use usually more fully gamut G. Now historical.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > great scale or gamut > notes in gamut

gammea1393

gamuta1450

quatreblea1450

superacute1504

ela1580

gamma1602

sur-sharp1786

a1450 L. Power Treat. on Counterpoint in Speculum (1935) 10 243 (MED) Gamut hathe 3 acordis: re, mi, sol be proprechaunt; re a 12, mi a 13, sol a 15.

1479 Earl Rivers tr. Cordyal (Caxton) iv. iii O how swetely..singe those in delasol that before haue wept in gammoth & in are.

?1527 J. Skelton Agaynste Comely Coystrowne Hys hart is to hy to haue any hap. But for in his gam vt [1568 game vt] carp that he can. Lo Iak wold be a Ientylman.

1560 T. Churchyard Contention betwyxte Churchyeard & Camell sig. E.iiii^v/2 Some from gammuth gront and grone aboue ela a note.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 4 The first note standeth in Gam-vt.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. i. 71 Gamouth I am, the ground of all accord: Are, to plead Hortensio's passion.

1630 J. Taylor Bawd in Wks. ii. 96/1 There is not any note aboue Ela, or below Gammoth, but she knows the Diapason.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 12 [An Echo]..which answers to no Note so clearly as to Gamut.

1749 G. F. Handel Let. 30 Sept. in Musical Times (1968) 109 1154/1 The Compass [of the organ] to be up to D and down to Gamut.

a1779 D. Garrick Medley in T. Wilkinson Wandering Patentee (1795) IV. 263 You tune up my throat, You swell every Note, From gamut below up to e-la.

1828 Mechanics' Mag. 15 Mar. 99/2 The compass..is from the first line G of the bass clef (or gamut G), up to G, the fifth space in the treble clef.

1838 Boston Musical Gaz. 11 July 43/1 The Bassoon [stop]..may be used down to Gamut or lower.

1906 E. Suddard tr. C. M. Widor Technique Mod. Orchestra v. 182 The register of good quality is limited to two octaves from Gamut G upwards.

1999 N. Thistlethwaite Making Victorian Organ i. i. 15 A single-fronted organ with two open diapasons on the Great, of which the second had no pipes available below gamut G.

a. The scale of notes, extending over two octaves and a sixth, formed by the seven overlapping hexachords in the system ascribed to Guido d'Arezzo, and containing all the notes generally recognized in medieval music; this set of hexachords, as a method of learning to sing or perform music. Formerly sometimes without article. Now historical.The notes of this scale were given names which combined letters of the alphabet with solmization syllables, the lowest being Γ ut (= sense 1, corresponding to G on the lowest line of the modern bass stave) and the highest being E la (= E in the highest space of the treble: see ela n.). As notes outside this compass came into general use they were given names on a similar basis. [The names of the solmization syllables are from certain initial syllables in the following sapphic stanza (Hymn for St John Baptist's day): Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Iohannes.]

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > great scale or gamut

gamutc1475

c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 2059 A gamma-ut then wonderly she [sc. Dame Musica] fonde, Whyche ys a rewle to teche theym for to syng.

1562 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalmes sig. ☩.ii An easie and moste playne way and rule, of the order of the Notes and Kayes of singing, whiche commonly is called the scale of Musicke, or the Gamma vt.

1595 R. Parry Moderatus sig. G2 Must the Punie that learned Gammut scant, Muse vpon Crochets trebled oft and oft?

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. i. 65 I must begin with rudiments of Art, To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 94 Many of them could say their Gammoothe..but knew not how to proue a note.

1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 3 The Gam-ut is drawne upon foureteene Rules, and their Spaces, which comprehend all Notes or sounds usual in Musicke.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. A-la-mire, the lowest Note but one in the 3 Septenaries of the Gamut, or Scale of Musick.

1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 85 The whole scale was called Gammut.

1881 F. A. Hoffmann Music 82 The following diagram will illustrate exactly the gamut or scale adopted by Guido.

1918 Musical Times 59 465/2 A few words may be added with regard to the ‘systema maximum’, or gamut,—that is, the ‘great scale’..in its limited mediæval form, as recognised by Guy of Arezzo.

1977 Early Music 5 474/1 Regular mutation..is a device for moving around within the gamut.

2002 D. E. Cohen in T. Christensen Cambr. Hist. Western Music Theory xi. 356 Beginning in the late fourteenth century, the Guidonian gamut began to undergo expansion in two ways.

b. More generally: the full series of notes recognized by musicians, or by any particular group of people, as forming part of a scale, such as the major diatonic scale; the full range of pitches that may be sounded by anything.

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

systemc1580

scale1597

diagram1656

gamut1702

harmonics1702

1702 Elysium 116 The Lady..gradually and successively run over all the variety of Strains, and the whole Gamut of Musick.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 157. ⁋13 They make a greater Sound than those who are possessed of the whole Gammut.

1774 ‘J. Collier’ Musical Trav. 10 She..screamed..most harmoniously through the whole gamut, from a to g inclusively.

1827 T. Carlyle Goethe in German Romance IV. 5 IThe same word..was..chanted through all the notes of the gamut.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. i. 227 This spectrum is to the eye what the gamut is to the ear.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 227 And ever as their shrieks Ran highest up the gamut.

1914 Everybody's Mag. Mar. 323/2 A bass voice that ran slowly, fatefully down the gamut until it was lost in a hoarse whisper.

1954 F. Howes Music R. Vaughan Williams 279 Played low down in the gamut (on cello and bass) its [sc. the theme's] fat complacency enhances the dramatic point.

2000 J. Brooks Courtly Song late 16th-cent. France 240 The result..was a thickened texture within the section of the gamut occupied by the piece, rather than an extension of the overall ambitus.

3. The full range of notes which a voice or instrument can produce, or which are used in a particular piece; = compass n.¹ 10.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > range or compass

compass1597

gamut1639

diapason1687

ambitus?1775

range1796

register1806

scale1818

1639 J. Cruso tr. Sieur Du Praissac Art of Warre Ded. A souldiers Gammaut goes farre beyond E-la.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 16 The gammuth of every municipal fidler.

1795 Universal Mag. Dec. 392/1 The master displayed the powers of his voice by uttering a variety of the most opposite tones in the whole gamut of the human voice.

1825 J. F. Danneley Encycl. Music at Gamme At the present day the word gamut denotes the compass of sounds for each instrument, viz. from the highest to the lowest note.

1878 Sci. Amer. 28 Dec. 407/2 This is an improved musical instrument which combines the gamut of the violin with that of the violoncello or bass viol.

1932 Musical Q. 18 582 The first string of the 'cello can only go so far. Though substitutes can be found, the limits of the gamut are there.

1985 A. B. Pippard Response & Stability 84 Hum a sliding note through the whole gamut of your voice.

2007 P. ap Siôn Music of M. Nyman 20 The Canzona's theme creates contrast by encompassing an entire chromatic gamut from D above middle C to C two octaves above.

II. Extended uses.

†4. The rudiments or conceptual framework of something; a system or systematic key. Obsolete.

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society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > rudiments

elements1382

ABCa1393

ground1528

introduction1532

principles1532

rudiments1534

institution1537

accidence1562

institute1578

alphabet1593

ut, re1598

gamut1600

Christ-cross-row1608

grammates1633

initiament1727

notion1839

propaedeutics1842

rudimentaries1852

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. xciii. 73 He labored hard rocks with plaints to moue, She had not learn'd the Gamut then of loue.

1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 14 Chaunge the Gamuth, and say, He is noble, he hath therfore the more obligation to be perfect.

1731 Daily Jrnl. 5 Nov. Scheme for a Gamut of all Knowledge.

1797 D. Mackintosh et al. (title) A plain, rational essay on English grammar:..to which is given, a gamut or key..pointing out the quantity and quality of every syllable and word.

1803 J. Ibbetson (title) An accidence, or gamut, of painting in oil and water colours.

†5. The lowest point. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > least quantity or amount > lowest point or degree

gamut1675

nadir1793

zero1821

rock-bottom1885

1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal i. vii. 50 That [was] an Age elevated above the Ela of common Humanity, this sunk down below the Gamut of the most brutish Bestiality.

6. The full range or scope of something. Now frequently as the whole gamut. See also to run the gamut at Phrases.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > scope or range of

ampleness1509

reach1546

compass1555

zodiac1560

extent1593

range1599

verge1599

extension1604

latitude1605

extendure1610

point-blanka1616

comprisement1640

comprisurea1641

virge1640

tour1699

purview1751

gamut1753

sweep1781

diapason1851

carry1859

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xii. 97 This shade [i.e. shading]..is the painter's gamut.

1756 World 6 May 1052 [The words]vastly, horridly, abominably, immensely or excessively, which, with three or four more.., make up the whole scale or gamut of modern female conversation.

1799 Anti-Jacobin Rev. 2 App. 568 But this is only ascending a half-note higher in the gamut of nonsense.

1806 Strictures Establishm. Colleges 44 [They] have learned the first note in the gamut of blind servile superstition, and there can be nothing too monstrous for them not to stretch their enslaved minds to afterwards.

1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 34 The sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime.

1883 Harper's Mag. May 822/2 The..stocks were running..up and down the gamut from $1 to $700 a share.

1926 Rotarian Sept. 27/1 One likes a book so compact in statement and so comprehensive of the whole gamut of management.

1956 D. E. Griffiths Human Relations School Admin. iii. 419 He covered the gamut: social promotion, discipline, competitive marking, progressive education, and college preparation.

2006 Saltscapes (Canada) Sept. 10/1 Shatford's by the Sea..now offers the gamut from casual lobster-sandwich takeout to fine dining.

Phrases

to run the gamut and variants: (a) to sing or perform all the notes of the scale, or all the notes within the compass of a particular singer or instrument, in succession (now rare); (b) (frequently with of) to experience, display, or perform the complete range of something.

ΚΠ

1724 R. Samber tr. B. Castiglione Courtier ii. 18 When they talk with any one, after a Pause, [they] renew their Discourse in such a Tone as if they were running over the Gamut.

1805 I. D'Israeli Flim-flams! I. p. xii He runs through the whole gamut of the heart, from bass to treble.

1825 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Jan. 3 Catalani cannot run the gamut more fleetly than what we more advanced Phrenologists can..quickly decypher..every shifting and varied attribute of human character.

1832 Tait's Edinb. Mag. June 263 A lawyer who had run the gamut of every political opinion.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 122 He ran over the gamut of Latin metre.

1892 Sat. Rev. 29 Oct. 507/2 [His] perfect elocutionary style held flexibility enough to enable him to run the whole gamut with ease.

1903 H. Macfall Masterfolk l. 232 There was..the singing of a snatch of song—a piano would run up the gamut of a scale.

1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xix. 389 The activities of most groups run the whole gamut of offenses, including practically every crime in the catalogue.

1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time iv. 124 He ran the gamut from rage to pain and then elegiac calm.

2007 Wine & Spirit May 43/1 Château Les Marnières produces wines that run the gamut of Bergerac's possibilities.

Compounds

† gamut string n. Obsolete rare the second lowest string on a bass viol.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > viol > bass-viol > specific strings of

great mean1574

counter-tenor1654

gamut string1654

1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 92 The Basse Violl..hath six strings..the fifth the Tenor or Gam-ut string.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gamut
释义	gamutn. Brit. /ˈɡamət/, U.S. /ˈɡæmət/ Forms: late Middle English 1600s gamma-ut, late Middle English–1600s gammoth, late Middle English– gamut, 1500s game vt, 1500s gamma vt, 1500s gammouthe, 1500s gam vt, 1500s–1600s gamma ut, 1500s–1600s gammuth, 1500s–1600s gam ut, 1500s–1600s gam-vt, 1500s–1700s gammut, 1600s gammaut, 1600s gammoothe, 1600s gammot, 1600s gamoth, 1600s gamouth, 1600s gam-ut, 1600s gamuth. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin gamut, gamma ut. Etymology: < post-classical Latin gamut (also gamma ut; both 13th cent.) < gamma gamma n. + ut ut n. Compare earlier gamme n.On the origin and development of the musical uses see note at sense 2. I. Musical uses. 1. The lowest note on the medieval sequence of hexachords (see sense 2a). In later use usually more fully gamut G. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > great scale or gamut > notes in gamut gammea1393 gamuta1450 quatreblea1450 superacute1504 ela1580 gamma1602 sur-sharp1786 a1450 L. Power Treat. on Counterpoint in Speculum (1935) 10 243 (MED) Gamut hathe 3 acordis: re, mi, sol be proprechaunt; re a 12, mi a 13, sol a 15. 1479 Earl Rivers tr. Cordyal (Caxton) iv. iii O how swetely..singe those in delasol that before haue wept in gammoth & in are. ?1527 J. Skelton Agaynste Comely Coystrowne Hys hart is to hy to haue any hap. But for in his gam vt [1568 game vt] carp that he can. Lo Iak wold be a Ientylman. 1560 T. Churchyard Contention betwyxte Churchyeard & Camell sig. E.iiii^v/2 Some from gammuth gront and grone aboue ela a note. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 4 The first note standeth in Gam-vt. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. i. 71 Gamouth I am, the ground of all accord: Are, to plead Hortensio's passion. 1630 J. Taylor Bawd in Wks. ii. 96/1 There is not any note aboue Ela, or below Gammoth, but she knows the Diapason. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 12 [An Echo]..which answers to no Note so clearly as to Gamut. 1749 G. F. Handel Let. 30 Sept. in Musical Times (1968) 109 1154/1 The Compass [of the organ] to be up to D and down to Gamut. a1779 D. Garrick Medley in T. Wilkinson Wandering Patentee (1795) IV. 263 You tune up my throat, You swell every Note, From gamut below up to e-la. 1828 Mechanics' Mag. 15 Mar. 99/2 The compass..is from the first line G of the bass clef (or gamut G), up to G, the fifth space in the treble clef. 1838 Boston Musical Gaz. 11 July 43/1 The Bassoon [stop]..may be used down to Gamut or lower. 1906 E. Suddard tr. C. M. Widor Technique Mod. Orchestra v. 182 The register of good quality is limited to two octaves from Gamut G upwards. 1999 N. Thistlethwaite Making Victorian Organ i. i. 15 A single-fronted organ with two open diapasons on the Great, of which the second had no pipes available below gamut G. 2. a. The scale of notes, extending over two octaves and a sixth, formed by the seven overlapping hexachords in the system ascribed to Guido d'Arezzo, and containing all the notes generally recognized in medieval music; this set of hexachords, as a method of learning to sing or perform music. Formerly sometimes without article. Now historical.The notes of this scale were given names which combined letters of the alphabet with solmization syllables, the lowest being Γ ut (= sense 1, corresponding to G on the lowest line of the modern bass stave) and the highest being E la (= E in the highest space of the treble: see ela n.). As notes outside this compass came into general use they were given names on a similar basis. [The names of the solmization syllables are from certain initial syllables in the following sapphic stanza (Hymn for St John Baptist's day): Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Iohannes.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > great scale or gamut gamutc1475 c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 2059 A gamma-ut then wonderly she [sc. Dame Musica] fonde, Whyche ys a rewle to teche theym for to syng. 1562 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalmes sig. ☩.ii An easie and moste playne way and rule, of the order of the Notes and Kayes of singing, whiche commonly is called the scale of Musicke, or the Gamma vt. 1595 R. Parry Moderatus sig. G2 Must the Punie that learned Gammut scant, Muse vpon Crochets trebled oft and oft? a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. i. 65 I must begin with rudiments of Art, To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort. View more context for this quotation 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 94 Many of them could say their Gammoothe..but knew not how to proue a note. 1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 3 The Gam-ut is drawne upon foureteene Rules, and their Spaces, which comprehend all Notes or sounds usual in Musicke. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. A-la-mire, the lowest Note but one in the 3 Septenaries of the Gamut, or Scale of Musick. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 85 The whole scale was called Gammut. 1881 F. A. Hoffmann Music 82 The following diagram will illustrate exactly the gamut or scale adopted by Guido. 1918 Musical Times 59 465/2 A few words may be added with regard to the ‘systema maximum’, or gamut,—that is, the ‘great scale’..in its limited mediæval form, as recognised by Guy of Arezzo. 1977 Early Music 5 474/1 Regular mutation..is a device for moving around within the gamut. 2002 D. E. Cohen in T. Christensen Cambr. Hist. Western Music Theory xi. 356 Beginning in the late fourteenth century, the Guidonian gamut began to undergo expansion in two ways. b. More generally: the full series of notes recognized by musicians, or by any particular group of people, as forming part of a scale, such as the major diatonic scale; the full range of pitches that may be sounded by anything. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] systemc1580 scale1597 diagram1656 gamut1702 harmonics1702 1702 Elysium 116 The Lady..gradually and successively run over all the variety of Strains, and the whole Gamut of Musick. 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 157. ⁋13 They make a greater Sound than those who are possessed of the whole Gammut. 1774 ‘J. Collier’ Musical Trav. 10 She..screamed..most harmoniously through the whole gamut, from a to g inclusively. 1827 T. Carlyle Goethe in German Romance IV. 5 IThe same word..was..chanted through all the notes of the gamut. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. i. 227 This spectrum is to the eye what the gamut is to the ear. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 227 And ever as their shrieks Ran highest up the gamut. 1914 Everybody's Mag. Mar. 323/2 A bass voice that ran slowly, fatefully down the gamut until it was lost in a hoarse whisper. 1954 F. Howes Music R. Vaughan Williams 279 Played low down in the gamut (on cello and bass) its [sc. the theme's] fat complacency enhances the dramatic point. 2000 J. Brooks Courtly Song late 16th-cent. France 240 The result..was a thickened texture within the section of the gamut occupied by the piece, rather than an extension of the overall ambitus. 3. The full range of notes which a voice or instrument can produce, or which are used in a particular piece; = compass n.¹ 10. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > range or compass compass1597 gamut1639 diapason1687 ambitus?1775 range1796 register1806 scale1818 1639 J. Cruso tr. Sieur Du Praissac Art of Warre Ded. A souldiers Gammaut goes farre beyond E-la. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 16 The gammuth of every municipal fidler. 1795 Universal Mag. Dec. 392/1 The master displayed the powers of his voice by uttering a variety of the most opposite tones in the whole gamut of the human voice. 1825 J. F. Danneley Encycl. Music at Gamme At the present day the word gamut denotes the compass of sounds for each instrument, viz. from the highest to the lowest note. 1878 Sci. Amer. 28 Dec. 407/2 This is an improved musical instrument which combines the gamut of the violin with that of the violoncello or bass viol. 1932 Musical Q. 18 582 The first string of the 'cello can only go so far. Though substitutes can be found, the limits of the gamut are there. 1985 A. B. Pippard Response & Stability 84 Hum a sliding note through the whole gamut of your voice. 2007 P. ap Siôn Music of M. Nyman 20 The Canzona's theme creates contrast by encompassing an entire chromatic gamut from D above middle C to C two octaves above. II. Extended uses. †4. The rudiments or conceptual framework of something; a system or systematic key. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > rudiments elements1382 ABCa1393 ground1528 introduction1532 principles1532 rudiments1534 institution1537 accidence1562 institute1578 alphabet1593 ut, re1598 gamut1600 Christ-cross-row1608 grammates1633 initiament1727 notion1839 propaedeutics1842 rudimentaries1852 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. xciii. 73 He labored hard rocks with plaints to moue, She had not learn'd the Gamut then of loue. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 14 Chaunge the Gamuth, and say, He is noble, he hath therfore the more obligation to be perfect. 1731 Daily Jrnl. 5 Nov. Scheme for a Gamut of all Knowledge. 1797 D. Mackintosh et al. (title) A plain, rational essay on English grammar:..to which is given, a gamut or key..pointing out the quantity and quality of every syllable and word. 1803 J. Ibbetson (title) An accidence, or gamut, of painting in oil and water colours. †5. The lowest point. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > least quantity or amount > lowest point or degree gamut1675 nadir1793 zero1821 rock-bottom1885 1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal i. vii. 50 That [was] an Age elevated above the Ela of common Humanity, this sunk down below the Gamut of the most brutish Bestiality. 6. The full range or scope of something. Now frequently as the whole gamut. See also to run the gamut at Phrases. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > scope or range of ampleness1509 reach1546 compass1555 zodiac1560 extent1593 range1599 verge1599 extension1604 latitude1605 extendure1610 point-blanka1616 comprisement1640 comprisurea1641 virge1640 tour1699 purview1751 gamut1753 sweep1781 diapason1851 carry1859 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xii. 97 This shade [i.e. shading]..is the painter's gamut. 1756 World 6 May 1052 [The words]vastly, horridly, abominably, immensely or excessively, which, with three or four more.., make up the whole scale or gamut of modern female conversation. 1799 Anti-Jacobin Rev. 2 App. 568 But this is only ascending a half-note higher in the gamut of nonsense. 1806 Strictures Establishm. Colleges 44 [They] have learned the first note in the gamut of blind servile superstition, and there can be nothing too monstrous for them not to stretch their enslaved minds to afterwards. 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 34 The sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime. 1883 Harper's Mag. May 822/2 The..stocks were running..up and down the gamut from $1 to $700 a share. 1926 Rotarian Sept. 27/1 One likes a book so compact in statement and so comprehensive of the whole gamut of management. 1956 D. E. Griffiths Human Relations School Admin. iii. 419 He covered the gamut: social promotion, discipline, competitive marking, progressive education, and college preparation. 2006 Saltscapes (Canada) Sept. 10/1 Shatford's by the Sea..now offers the gamut from casual lobster-sandwich takeout to fine dining. Phrases to run the gamut and variants: (a) to sing or perform all the notes of the scale, or all the notes within the compass of a particular singer or instrument, in succession (now rare); (b) (frequently with of) to experience, display, or perform the complete range of something. ΚΠ 1724 R. Samber tr. B. Castiglione Courtier ii. 18 When they talk with any one, after a Pause, [they] renew their Discourse in such a Tone as if they were running over the Gamut. 1805 I. D'Israeli Flim-flams! I. p. xii He runs through the whole gamut of the heart, from bass to treble. 1825 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Jan. 3 Catalani cannot run the gamut more fleetly than what we more advanced Phrenologists can..quickly decypher..every shifting and varied attribute of human character. 1832 Tait's Edinb. Mag. June 263 A lawyer who had run the gamut of every political opinion. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 122 He ran over the gamut of Latin metre. 1892 Sat. Rev. 29 Oct. 507/2 [His] perfect elocutionary style held flexibility enough to enable him to run the whole gamut with ease. 1903 H. Macfall Masterfolk l. 232 There was..the singing of a snatch of song—a piano would run up the gamut of a scale. 1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xix. 389 The activities of most groups run the whole gamut of offenses, including practically every crime in the catalogue. 1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time iv. 124 He ran the gamut from rage to pain and then elegiac calm. 2007 Wine & Spirit May 43/1 Château Les Marnières produces wines that run the gamut of Bergerac's possibilities. Compounds † gamut string n. Obsolete rare the second lowest string on a bass viol. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > viol > bass-viol > specific strings of great mean1574 counter-tenor1654 gamut string1654 1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 92 The Basse Violl..hath six strings..the fifth the Tenor or Gam-ut string. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1450
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