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twelveadj.n. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English twelf , (also tuelf , and in Lindisfarne Gloss. tuoelf ), = Old Frisian twelef , twilif , twelf (Old West Frisian tolef , West Frisian toalf ); Middle Dutch twalef , twaelf , twelef , twelf (Dutch twaalf ); Old Saxon twelif , twilif , twulif (Middle Low German twelf , twolf , twalf , Low German twölf ); Old High German zwelif , Middle High German zwelif , zwelf , German zwölf , Old Norse tólf , (Swedish tolf , Norwegian, Danish tolv ), Gothic twalif < Old Germanic *twaliƀi- , < twa two + liƀ- or lif- , of uncertain origin, but generally considered to belong to the same root as Old Germanic *liƀan to leave n.1, and thus to denote ‘two left or remaining over (ten)’; compare eleven adj. and n. Analogous formations to eleven and twelve are the Lithuania vênů′lika 11, dvýlika 12, in which the second element, Lithuania -lika, has also the meaning of ‘left over’. All other Indo-European languages have or had forms composed of ‘two’ + ‘ten’, like the numbers 13 to 19; compare Latin duōdecim, Greek δώδεκα, Sanskrit dwādaçan. As an adjective standing before a noun Old English twelf was as a rule indeclinable; in other positions it was usually inflected, nominative-accusative twelfe, genitive twelfa, dative & preposition twelfum, but exceptions on both sides are found in Old English, especially in Northumbrian, and in Middle English twelfe, and at length twelve, became the form in all positions. Reduction to tuoel occurs once in Lindisfarne Gloss., and in Middle English and modern dialects twell, twall are frequent. The cardinal numeral composed of ten and two, represented by the symbols 12 or xii. A. adj. Numeral adjective. 1. a. With modified noun expressed. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > twelve 971 [see α. forms]. OE 147 Twelf wintra tid. c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in (1885) 8 298 On þisum dagum beoð gesette twelf monðas. 1297 (Rolls) 431 Þis folc..departede hor ost in tuelf [v.rr. twolf, twelue] parties. c1330 R. Mannyng (Rolls) 13534 Þey were..set In twolue batailles. 1420–2 J. Lydgate 3540 I-braunched out vpon twelue trees. 1526 Acts vii. 8 And Isaac begat Iacob, and Iacob the twelve patriarkes. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel 53 He choose out of that companie..twelue men. 1640 R. Brome sig. Fv Twelve Hymnes, For the twelve Sessions. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus 80 There are twelve species of it. 1774 O. Goldsmith I. ii. 30 At twelve years old the boys were removed into another class. 1847 G. Grote III. ii. xix. 390 The division of the day into twelve parts. a1000 15 Mine suna twelfe. a1300 29063 Crist..Spekand to his aposteles tueluen. c1374 G. Chaucer ii. 59 (108) Herof ben þere maked bokes twelue. 1390 J. Gower I. 181 The Souldan hise hostages sende..of Princes Sones tuelve. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 174 Iesu crist him selue ches til him apostels tuelue. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 529 But Cristes loore, and hise Apostles twelue He taughte, but first he folwed it hym selue. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 12698 Twelf [c1300 Otho twealf] þusend cnihtes. c1290 l. 66/450 He deide tweolf hundred ȝer..Aftur ore louerdes burtyme. 1297 (Rolls) 10121 In tuelf hundred ȝer of grace & þe secunde ȝere. c1425 Wyntoun viii. 2011 Twelf hundir nynti ȝhere and sewyn Fra Crist was borne. 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 107 Tuelff hundreth ȝer tharto nynte and sewyn.] 1552 R. Huloet Twelue hundreth thousande sestertia. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto ix. 28 Eleven or twelve thousand staves hardened in the fire. 1726 J. Swift I. ii. vii. 131 A Gallery of twelve hundred Foot long. 2. absol.c950 [see β. forms]. OE [see β. forms]. c1000 [see α. forms]. c1000 (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 20 Þa sæde he him, An of eow twelfum me sylð. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 13079 For aȝan þine tweie heo habbeoð twælue [c1300 Otho twalue]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 12614 Þas twælfe heore wai ferden. 1382 Gen. xxxv. 22 The sones of Jacob weren twelue. 1382 2 Sam. ii. 15 Twelue of the children of Dauid. 1535 Josh. xxi. E All the cities of the children of Merari..were twolue. 1646 J. Benbrigge 5 A Banke of Recovery..herein Twelve were given for the use of an Hundred per annum. the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > specific times of day ?1482 J. Kay tr. G. Caoursin Alle the nyght from twelfe the clocke vnto .x. in the daye. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. i. 3 Fleance. The Moone is downe: I haue not heard the Clock. Banq. And she goes downe at Twelue . View more context for this quotation 1656 R. Sanderson 182 If a man should vow he would never eat, till all the Clocks in the City should strike Twelve together. 1665 in (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1912) 3rd Ser. 237 Betweene eleauen and twelue A clocke. 1709 M. Prior 33 She..was wak'd at Ten;..At Twelve She rose. 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxxi, in (new ed.) 65 Some wee short hour ayont the twal. 1817 W. Scott II. ix. 195 D'ye think I wad hae comed out at twal o'clock at night? 1842 Ld. Tennyson Death of Old Year (rev. ed.) in (rev. ed.) I. 212 The light burns low: 'Tis nearly twelve o'clock. 1847 R. W. Emerson xix. 310 Their best parts were slowly revealed;..they did not strike twelve the first time. 1862 M. E. Braddon II. iv. 80 The clock struck twelve. 1894 J. A. Noble in 10 Feb. 119/3 There are some writers who, to use a homely colloquialism, strike twelve all at once: their first achievement..tells us all about them. the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. v. 130 We would muster all From twelue, to seuentie. View more context for this quotation 1646 J. Hall 75 Unlesse an inclination be very discoverable [in a child], it cannot be perceived till after Twelve. 1819 Ld. Byron l. 28 At twelve he was a..quiet boy. society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > apostle > [noun] c950 John vi. 71 An of ðæm tuelfum. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xx. 24 Thomas, oon of the twelue,..was not with hem. 1526 Luke ix. f. lxxxix Then called he the .xij. to gether, and gave them power, and auctorite, over all devyls. c1605 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in (1896) 32 213 A great contention betwixt the xij as they tearmed theymselves and the commonaltie of Rippon about the election of the wakeman. 1635 in J. Barmby (1888) 97 It was agreed by the twell of the parish of Pettingtone there should be a ceasment of sex penns a pound. 1843 T. B. Macaulay xxxvii Manlius, eldest of the Twelve Who kept the Golden Shield. 1882 F. W. Farrar II. 484 St. John was the last survivor of the Twelve. 1898 J. Robertson iii. 52 The Twelve minor prophets..perhaps the very first notice we have of them in history is a reference to them as a collection, known as ‘the twelve’. 1909 Sir W. M. Ramsay in July 14 The duties..discharged by the Twelve in the original congregation. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > twelve > twelfth society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Twelfth Night (5 January) > [noun] 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas ix. xiv. (Bodl. 263) 419/2 The twelue in noumbre Callid Pope Iohn. 1586 W. Webbe sig. G.i Transpose anie of those feete..and make short either the two, foure, sixe, eight, tenne, twelue sillable, and it will..fall out very absurdly. 1660 tr. H. Blum (new ed.) B c Within that twelve part. a1691 H. Piers Chorogr. Descr. W.-Meath in C. Vallancey (1770) I. i. 124 On Twelve Eve in Christmas. B. n. (with plural twelves). the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twelve ?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele (1922) 9 Cast 6 to 6, & þere-of wil arise twelue. ?a1560 L. Digges (1571) i. xii. sig. Diijv Multiplie the distance..by 12. 1875 I. Todhunter (ed. 7) xxix. §440 The number ten has only two divisors.., the number twelve has four... On this account twelve would have been more convenient than ten as a radix. 1916 at Twelve Mod. Five twelves make sixty. society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group > types of the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twelve > twelve things, persons, etc. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twelve > group or set of twelve 1573 in J. Cranstoun (1891) I. xlii. 289 Amang Christis awin twelf..Ane tratour was. 1887 Mar. 258 A ‘twelve’ of Irish players [at Lacrosse]. 1898 G. Meredith 70 The rosed and starred Revolving Twelves [i.e. hours of the days and nights]. 1910 28 June 12/2 Both the University twelves were playing last week. 3. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > of specific size 1607 T. Middleton v. sig. Iv Courtiers haue feete ath nines, and tongues ath twellues. 1652 Proposals for regul. Law in VI. 294 That there may be a distinction made between clerks of the children's threes, and stagers of the long twelves. 1855 R. Browning vii Your masterpiece, hard number twelve. the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > flower-pot or tub > specialized types 1802 W. Forsyth viii. 114 The 1st size of 8 in the Cast is called Eights. 2[nd size of] 12 [in the Cast is called] Twelves... Sixteens... Twenty-fours. 1852 G. W. Johnson 392/2 Eleven-inch..[Old name] 12s. the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > type of society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > shotgun 1804 Capt. Maitland in 11 409 A Ship Privateer, carrying sixteen twelves and sixes. 1895 27 64/1 The opinion of sportsmen has changed during recent years, and twelves have steadily grown in favor. 5. (Only in plural) society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > duodecimo > sheet of 1670 in S. Lennard tr. P. Charron (new ed.) Advert. Bks. Ovid Metamorphosis, in Verse, by George Sandys, in twelves. 1675 19 Divinity in large Twelves. 1675 30 Physick in small Twelves. 1683 J. Moxon II. 220 If the Form be..Twelves, he sets also under the Fifth Page Signature 3, and under the Seventh Page Signature 4. 1766 20 May Saturday will be published..in two volumes in twelves,..the second edition of The Vicar of Wakefield. 1792 To be comprised in 750 Pages, in large Pocket Twelves. 1882 J. Southward xiii. 121 Twelves, or duodecimo, is a sheet folded into twelve leaves, making twenty-four pages. It is written 12 mo. 1882 J. Southward xiii. 124 Long Twelves is a twelvemo the pages of which read across the broad way. society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > duodecimo 1683 J. Moxon II. 232 There are four Volumns in use that are differently Imposed, viz. Folio, Quarto, Octavo and Twelves. 1683 J. Moxon II. 233 The other Volumns, viz. Sixteens, Twenty-fours, Thirty-two's, are but the Octavo's and Twelves doubled, or twice doubled. 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 9 in III In a very small twelves of 36 sides in Print, call'd, The Marrow of Prayer. 1786 W. Cowper 27 This moveable structure of shelves,..charged with octavos and twelves. 1809 Ld. Byron 2 And Little's Lyrics shine in hot-press'd twelves. c1888 A. Lang ii ‘Dear, dumpy twelves’, to fill the nooks. 1755 No. 71. ⁋6 Though contracted into the small space of a twelves volume. 1755 No. 93. ⁋10 The Twelves edition of the Connoisseur will be published on Tuesday the 25th of this instant November. 1770 P. Luckombe 110 He printed a small twelves volume with the following title. Compounds C1. c1000 Ags. Man. Astron. in (1841) 7 Under ælc þæra twelf tacna. 1390 J. Gower III. 108 Ther ben signes tuelve, Whiche have her cercles be hemselve Compassed in the zodiaque. 1509 S. Hawes (1845) xxii. 105 In the xii. signes them selfe to domify. 1535 2 Kings xxiii. 5 Them that brent incense..to the Sonne, and the Mone, and the twolue tokens. a1585 A. Montgomerie 421 Be the poles, and the planets, and the signes all twell. 1607 (MS.) 22 Oct. Henleye. Agreementes & paines bie the Tweluemenne as followeth made at the Couurte holden ther the 22 daye of october. 1744 in J. Hammond (1897) vi. 80 [It was resolved] that every Principall Inhabitant..under the denomination of a twelve-man shall be an acting Manager and Trustee [of the Workhouse]. 1890 26 10/2 Among the most curious birds of Queensland are those known familiarly as the ‘Twelve Apostles’, from the circumstance that they are always seen in flocks of exactly twelve. b. society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > season of Epiphany > [noun] 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will in (Grosart) VI. 156 To feede the poore twelue dayes, & let them starue all the yeare after.] c975 Matt. x. 2 Þara twelf apostola noma [Ags. Gosp. naman] sindun þas. c1175 75 Þet rihte ileue setten þe twelue apostles on write. 1377 W. Langland A. xi. 25 He þat..con tellen of Tobie and þe Twelue Apostles. 1693 T. P. Blount 132 Tobacco. In the Twelve-Days they begin to Sow their Seed. 1725 H. Bourne xvii. (heading) The Wickedness of observing the Twelve Days after the common Way. society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury 1589 (rev. ed.) ii. ix. 62 They which..either condemne or acquite the man..are not called Iudges, but the twelue men. 1607 J. Cowell sig. Xxx2/2 Twelve Men..is a number of twelve persons or vpwards to the number of 24. by whose discretion all tryals passe both in ciuill and criminall causes. 1608 in 8th Ser. 11 201/1 Paines laid at the great courte at Sheffelde..by the twelue men of the sooke of Ecclesfelde. 1886 4th Ser. i. 55 The patentees are said to have been called the ‘Twelve Men’ or Duzine, and to have had both legislative and judicial powers in town affairs. C2. a. With nouns forming adjectives with the sense ‘of, pertaining to, having, containing, measuring, weighing, costing, or in some way connected with, twelve of the things named’. 1886 R. Kipling (1888) 42 Twelve-button gloves. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde I. 124/2 26,000 cubic feet of twelve-candle gas. 1904 15 Dec. 12/1 The Japanese material consists of a sharp strong warp of twelve-cut yarn, with soft weft. 1792 in J. A. Picton (1886) II. 267 A twelve feet figure executed in..green Bronze. 1898 Feb. 178/2 A twelve-foot basswood Canadian Canoe. 1798 6 Oct. 2/1 Damaged St. Petersburg Twelve-Head Flax. 1834 J. R. McCulloch 581 The Petersburgh and Narva flax..come to us in bundles of 12, 9, and 6 heads.] 1834 J. R. McCulloch 581 Charges at Petersburgh on 12 Head Flax, per ton. 1903 16 Jan. 2/1 The wall that used to be the confine of the old twelve-hole green. 1903 16 May 7/2 The car..was a twelve-horse-power Gladiator. 1611 R. Cotgrave at Royal Pied Royal..the ordinarie twelue-ynch foot. 1882 (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 275 A 12-inch vein of high-grade ore was met in a cross-cut. 1892 W. W. Greener 132 The best all-round gun for sporting purposes is the 12-bore with 30-inch barrels. 1839 T. Mitchell in Aristophanes 42 (note) A laugh, such as the twelve-labour demigod alone could give. 1896 R. S. S. Baden-Powell xv. 116 A twelve-mile ride next morning. 1786 R. Burns 58 An' dawtet, twal-pint Hawkie's gane As yell's the Bill. 1670 J. Eachard 107 The Service..is read by some Ten or Twelve-pound-Man [who] has but just skill enough to read the Lessons with twice conning over. 1862 II. No. 2612 The average ranges obtained..with a 12-lb. shot. 1811 153 Good marketable Wheat, and well dressed through a Twelve-Shilling seamed Cloth. 1882 F. M. Crawford ii Able to carry a twelve-stone man. 1797 XVII. 433/2 Reef and head holes of large sails have grommets of twelve thread line. b. with nouns + -ed suffix2, forming parasynthetic adjectives with the sense ‘having or characterized by twelve of the things named’. 1781 T. Pennant II. 501 Twelve-banded A[rmadillo]. the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [adjective] > two, etc., feet long or wide 1611 R. Cotgrave Charrée,.. a little twelue-footed water-worme, much hunted after by Trowtes. 1872 O. W. Holmes i. 38 Yon twelve-fruited tree. 1911 Ramsay in Mar. 224 The twelve-gated celestial city with its twelve-towered gates. 1891 F. W. Farrar II. li. 172 Ishmael ben Phabi, High Priest of the Jews, on whose ephod has hung the twelve-gemmed oracle. 1765 4 xxiii. 107 Cloth..made..of Narva twelve-headed flax. 1656 H. Seaman 7 That Triple-headed, and so consequently Twelve legged curre. 1815 W. Scott I. xvi. 260 I saw his boat..fly across the lake like a twelve-oared barge. 1891 17 Nov. 3/7 The pulling race for 12-oared cutters. 1855 C. Kingsley 125 The twelve-rayed sun-star (Solaster papposa) a showy creature, dressed in rich scarlet livery. 1831 D. Brewster xxx. 250 This mineral, which crystallises in six and twelve-sided prisms [etc.]. 1876 J. Ruskin ii. §19 A twelve-sided figure. 1848 P. J. Bailey (ed. 3) 216 Like her who wears in Heaven the twelve-starred crown. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ (1891) 243 The properly-wielded twelve-stranded intimidator [i.e. whip]. 1911Twelve-towered [see twelve-gated adj.]. c. Special combinations. the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > type of society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > shotgun 1859 ‘Stonehenge’ 243 A good muzzle-loading gun of twelve-bore, with a charge of..1¼ ounces of shot. 1892 W. W. Greener 132 The best all-round gun for sporting purposes is the 12-bore with 30-inch barrels. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > twelve > divided into twelve 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in 90 Sent like the twelve-divided concubine To inflame the tribes. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms 1884 8 Sept. 4/1 A..prelude in the key of A major, twelve-eight time. the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > type of society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > shotgun 1859 ‘Stonehenge’ 173 A gun of 12 gauge carries a ball weighing the twelfth part of a pound avoirdupois. 1894 23 393/2 I carried a twelve-gauge and Srû his nondescript weapon. the world > time > particular time > [adjective] > of the time of day > of specific times the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [adjective] > of parts of clocks the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adjective] > twelve or twenty-four hours (of day) 1791 J. Learmont 67 The Sun now frae the twal hour point Had nearly skifftit twa hours yont. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ 491 The twelve-hour wheel turns the minute index. 1909 12 Aug. 6/3 The employers refuse to grant them the twelve-hour day. the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > specific times of day the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > midday meal or lunch a1513 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 157 Betuix twell houris and ellevin. 1599 in (1845) II. 279 She furnished drink to him until twelve hours (at noon). 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 14 Mar. in (1664) cxvii. 224 Our moon-light is better then their twelve-hours-sun. 1844 J. Ballantine ii. 30 Was it to be expected..that such friends could meet..in the middle of a winter day, and separate without their ‘twal hours’? 1876 S. R. Whitehead 189 She sat down and took her twal-hours (noon meal). the world > time > period > year > [noun] 1609 W. Shakespeare ix. 9 One twelue Moones more shee'le weare Dianas liuerie. View more context for this quotation society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [adjective] > other scales 1928 C. Gray vi. 96 A reaching out towards the chromatic or twelve-note scale of to-day. 1959 16 Oct. 588/5 The most interesting letters are those in which Schoenberg speaks about his own work and his theory of composition. There is one to the Viennese composer Josef Hauer, in December, 1923, in which are discussed the rival claims of the two composers to have invented the twelve-note system. 1975 Jan. 1329/3 Moses is an uncompromisingly twelve-note composition. society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot 1801 Misc. Tracts 24/2 A lucky ball from a twelve-pounder. 1876 G. Bancroft (rev. ed.) III. ix. 425 The ‘Inflexible’..carried eighteen or twenty twelve-pounders and ten smaller guns. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives iii. i. sig. qv The senate was fayne to make statutes and lawes whiche was called the lawes of the twelue tables. 1542 T. Elyot (at cited word) In the tyme of warre, they whyche were in that maner syck, were dyscharged of their othes. Sextus and other Interpretoures of the twelue Tables, toke it for a vehemente and very great syckenesse. 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero iii f. 133v By the twelue tables it was sufficientlie prouided: that those thinges should bee perfourmed, which were declared in woorde. 1612 F. Bacon (rev. ed.) 221 Judges ought above al, to remember the conclusion of the Romaine twelve Tables; Salus populi suprema lex. 1698 J. Houghton (1727) II. 365 The law of the twelve tables prohibited all but the Emperor and Vestal Nuns to be bury'd within the city [Rome]. 1726 J. Ayliffe 33 By the Law of the twelve Tables, only those were called unto the Legal or Intestate Succession of their Parents, that were in the Parent's power at the time of his Death. 1875 H. J. S. Maine i. 10 The Roman law..is descended from a small body of Aryan customs reduced to writing in the fifth century b.c., and known as the Twelve Tables of Rome. 1912 12 291 If the Twelve Tables gave an action for damage to ‘trees’ it would not do to say ‘vines’. 1954 49 273/1 The law of the Twelve Tables is the earliest codification of Roman Law known to us. 1992 J. M. Kelly ii. 46 As early as 450 bc, the commission which was to draw up the written code of laws afterwards known as the Twelve Tables travelled from Rome to Athens to study the laws of Solon and actually incorporated some of those in their work. society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > season of Epiphany > [noun] 1557 T. Tusser sig. B.iiv While twelue tide doe last. 1568–70 in H. Hall (1886) 242 Seven night at the lest after twelve-tide last. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [adjective] > other scales 1923 A. Schoenberg Let. 1 Dec. in (1958) 108 Mir handelt es sich ausgesprochen dabei um gar keine anderen Theorien, als um die Methoden der ‘Komposition mit 12 Tönen’, wie ich das—nach vielen Irrtümern und Abschweifungen—heute (hoffentlich endgültig) nenne.] 1926 Mar.–Apr. 6 He (sc. Schoenberg), too, is convinced that no tone of the twelve tone system should dominate and that the new structural elements should be sought in sequence of twelve tones. 1956 W. H. Auden & C. Kallman (1957) 58 A Geist whose music was composed from Angst, at International Festivals enjoys An equal status with the Twelve-Tone Boys. 1980 4 Sept. 12/5 There was an almost missionary zeal in the Schoenberg circle to spread the Twelve-Tone gospel of the master. society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer by type of music 1955 N. Rorem (1966) xi. 215 I despair of twelve-toners: they have lost the need for pleasure. 1977 Y. Menuhin viii. 165 Bartók pours them [sc. chromatic sequences] out with a lavishness of invention which the twelve-toner, working away with his slide rule, will never know. the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > occurring every specific number of years 1906 C. A. Sherring xiv. 283 Every twelfth year, when there is a..twelve-yearly fair. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2021). <  adj.n.c950 |
