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quodlibet

[ kwod-luh-bet ]

noun

  1. a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
  2. Music. a humorous composition consisting of two or more independent and harmonically complementary melodies, usually quotations of well-known tunes, played or sung together, usually to different texts, in a polyphonic arrangement.


quodlibet

/ 藞办飞蓲诲濒瑟藢产蓻迟 /

noun

  1. a light piece of music based on two or more popular tunes
  2. a subtle argument, esp one prepared as an exercise on a theological topic
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藢辩耻辞诲濒颈藞产别迟颈肠补濒, adjective
  • 藢辩耻辞诲濒颈藞产别迟颈肠补濒ly, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辩耻辞诲顎卨颈路产别迟顎僫肠 辩耻辞诲顎卨颈路产别迟顎僫路肠补濒 adjective
  • 辩耻辞诲顎卨颈路产别迟顎僫路肠濒路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of quodlibet1

First recorded in 1350鈥1400; Middle English, from Medieval Latin noun 辩耻辞诲濒颈产脓迟耻尘 鈥渨hatever subject you like,鈥 from Latin indefinite pronoun and adjective quod libet 鈥渨hat(ever) pleases, as you please鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of quodlibet1

C14: from Latin, from quod what + libet pleases, that is, whatever you like
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Example Sentences

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Maybe it was the night鈥檚 full moon, but what are the odds that this concerto, which not only quotes a spiritual, ends with the obscure Baroque form of a quodlibet?

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Hoffmann, in the mean time, had seated himself at the harpsichord, and drew a quodlibet from the most varied Burschen songs, leaping from one to the other, and interweaving phantasy-pieces between them.

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Accordingly, for the sake of the equine quodlibet, he wanted to bid in my miserable sorrel, who, to tell the truth, wore nowhere any hair of his own, except behind on the bob.

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I suppose you saw his last quodlibet with the sheriff's portrait, and the autographs of all the magistrates, and with a few bank-notes mixed up with them.

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And this he is not contented to maintain himself, but he will needs father it upon his antagonist by such logic, forsooth, as can infer quidlibet ex quodlibet.

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