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monochordus

monochordus, ~um [LL < μονόχορδος] , musical instrument composed of a sound-board with a single string, stretched over a fret or bridge, used to teach intervals. sidera, mensuras, abacum, monochordon et artem / discendique modos grammaticamque doces G. Wint. Epigr. Hist. 4; tempore cuncta sono sibi distant in monocordo, / assignata suis sedibus et spatiis / cum digito per digitum vivificantem R. Cant. Poems 16. 31; de ~i ‥ divisione [Pythagoras] non minus mellita subjecit Adel. ED 27; sic quilibet subtilis, si voluerit, poterit continuare singula tria juxta ordinem supradictum, prout in concordantiis monocordi plenius continetur Mens. & Disc. (Anon. IV) 73; de disposicione ~i per numeros Odington 78; breviter ~i subjungo divisionem in primo capitulo dimissam Will. 15; fistula, cistula, tibia, timpana, cum monacordo R. Maidstone Conc. 293.

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