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sesqui-(dictionary)

Augustan (iou) and sesqui- (iou)


Augustan (iou)



Augustan adjective & noun. M16.
[Latin (sense A.1 medieval Latin) Augustanus, from (sense A.1) Augusta (Vindelicorum) Augsburg, a city in Bavaria, (sense A.2) Augustus: see AUGUST noun, -AN.]
A. adjective.
Ecclesiastical History. Of Augsburg, where in 1530 Luther and Melanchthon drew up their confession of Protestant principles. M16.
Designating or pertaining to the reign of Augustus Caesar (27 BC-AD 14), esp. as a period of outstanding refinement of Latin literature, or the corresponding period of any national literature; classical; spec. designating or pertaining to English literature from the mid 17th to the late 18th cent. E18.
b. noun.
Augustan literary style. rare. M19.
A writer of the Augustan age of any literature. L19.
Augustanism noun Augustan principles, quality, or condition, spec. in English literature E20.
Augustean adjective = AUGUSTAN adjective 2: only in L17.

sesqui- (iou)



sesqui- prefix.
[Latin, formed as SEMI- + -que and.]
Used in words adopted from Latin and in English words modelled on these in senses (a) designating, denoting, or involving a ratio of an integer to the next lower integer, as sesquialtera, sesquitertia, sesquiquarta (5:4 or 1 1 / 4:1), sesquioctave (9:8 or 1 1 / 8:1), etc., or occas. a similar integral ratio (no longer productive); (b) designating, denoting, or involving multiplication by one and a half, as sesquicentenary etc.; (c) Chemistry denoting combination in a compound of three equivalents of a named radical or element to two others, as sesquioxide etc.