discant

[ noun dis-kant; verb dis-kant ]

noun

1. Also dis·can·tus [] Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.
2. descant.

verb (used without object)

1. descant.

discant

noun

1. a variant of descant descant descant

verb

1. a variant of descant descant descant

Derived Forms

• disˈcanter, noun

Other Words From

• dis·canter noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of discant¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin discanthus; descant

Example Sentences

Cui accessit Pium diurnarum precum Enchiridion, ex quo pueri toto die cum Deo colloqui discant.

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The women who joined the community at Arles also learned reading and writing (omnes litteras discant).

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Then the spirit moving her, she began to discant on things past and people vanished.

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The transition from organum to discant was effected about the year 1100.

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Res est blanda canor; discant cantare puell—Singing is a charming accomplishment: let girls learn to sing.

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