decachord
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An Ancient Greek musical instrument with ten strings, resembling the harp.
noun
A musical instrument mentioned in the Psalms, having ten strings and thought to resemble a lute or psaltery.
noun
Anything having ten parts, especially something of mystical Christian significance.
Example Sentences
- "Apollo himself is depicted with a decachord, that is, an instrument with ten tuned strings, or ten harmonising voices, otherwise a cithara."
- "It is delightful to praise Jehobah, And to chant the measured lay to Thy name, O Most High; To proclaim Thy mercy in the morning, And Thy faithfulness every night, Upon the decachord, even upon the psaltery, Upon the higgæon, together with the harp."
- "The first is the view taken by the Syriac and Arabic versions, which make the lute to be the decachord, and the harp the mere accompaniment to a song."
- "Thou City of the Lord! Whose everlasting music Is the glorious decachord!"
- "The last presents the decachord theme in the form of a necklace of ten pieces of silver, precious and significant only when the pieces were not separated."
- "This decachord of 10 books about Christ's life from the Annunciation through his Ascension, culminating in the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles and the birth of the Church, was dedicated to Pope Julius II."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δεκάχορδος (dekákhordos, “ten-stringed”), from δέκα (déka, “ten”) + χορδή (khordḗ, “guts, string of a musical instrument”).