cancrizans
adjective
can·cri·zans
ˈkaŋkrə̇ˌzanz,
-ank-
music
: crab entry 3
Schoenberg's "Mondfleck" from Pierrot Lunaire is a vocal line accompanied by a double canon played in cancrizans fashion and a simultaneous three-part fugue. 
Edmund Dehnert, in The Languages of Creativity, 1986
Edmund Dehnert, in The Languages of Creativity, 1986a cancrizans passage
Word History
Etymology
Medieval Latin, present participle of cancrizare to go backwards, from Latin cancr-, cancer crab + Late Latin -izare -ize
First Known Use
1782, in the meaning defined above
- play on or upon
- play on words
- play one's cards
- play one's cards close to one's chest/vest
- play one's cards close to the chest/vest
- play one's cards right
- play out
- play politics
- play possum
- play school
- play second fiddle
- play smart
- play someone or something off against someone or something
- play something close to one's chest
- play something close to the vest
- play straight
- play structure
- play the clown
- play the field
- play the fool
- play the game
- play the gender card
- play the lottery
- play the market
- play the martyr