diazeuctic

English

Alternative forms

diazeutic

Etymology

Ancient Greek διαζευκτικός (diazeuktikós, “disjunctive”).

Adjective

diazeuctic (not comparable)

(music, obsolete) Disjoining two fourths.
the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “diazeuctic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)