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noun

Breve n.

(Mus.) A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure, but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; formerly much used for choir service.

(Law) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.

(Print.) A curved mark used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.

(Zool.) The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Breve" Quotes from Famous Books

... These are represented here as Beta-code transliterations, for example [Greek: nous]. The original text used a other characters not found in the Latin-1 character set. These have been represented using bracket notation, as follows: [-a] a with macron; [-o] o with macron; [)e] e with breve. In Canto X, Stanza XLI Byron used three pharmaceutical symbols, represented as [ezh] (looks like a "3"), [)ezh] (same, with ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... de ellos [los que habian procurado el Breve] y pretensor de mitra, le costo la vida el sentimiento que tuvo de ver tan indignado al Rey Catolico'. I have not been able to consult Jesus y Maria's work. My quotation, like Alonso Getino's (op. cit., p. 354), is taken at second-hand from Vicente de la Fuente's ...

— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

... See Antonio Serra, "Breve Trattato delle Cause che possono fare abbondare li Regni d' Oro ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill

Words linked to "Breve" : alla breve, os breve, diacritic, diacritical mark