| 单词 |
recte |
| 释义 |
‖ recte, adv.|ˈrɛkteɪ|
[L., lit. ‘in a straight line, rightly’.]
1. Correctly: used to indicate that the word or phrase following it within a parenthesis is the correct version of that which immediately precedes the insertion.
1886Trans. Philol. Soc. 621 Leg. contini (recte cointinni) gen. of cointinn s.f. ‘strife, controversy’. 1934Times Lit. Suppl. 3 May 325/2 ‘Tithreks Saga’ (recte ‘Thithriks Saga af Bern’). 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) iii. 543 The villa of the Ostmanorum to Thorstan's, recte Thomars Sraid. 1979Trans. Philol. Soc. 184 Kent translates the portion after my square brackets ‘This indeed..(is) my activity (recte physical-dexterity).’
2. Mus. In phr. (per) recte et retro [med.L., in the right way and backwards], applied to the movement of a canon cancrizans (see cancrizans a.).
[1801T. Busby Compl. Dict. Mus., Recte,..a word signifying forwards and particularly pertaining to the Canon.] 1836Penny Cycl. VI. 243/1 The canon Recte et Retro has but one peculiarity, and pretends to only one merit, namely, that it may be sung either forwards or backwards. 1876[see cancrizans a.]. 1909R. Dunstan Composer's Handbk. x. 155 A Canon ‘per Recte et Retro’ is one that may be sung forwards and backwards at the same time, producing two parts in one. 1922R. O. Morris Contrapuntal Technique 50 In each pair of voices the part of the lower is that of the upper begun at the end and sung backwards, i.e. a canon per recte et retro. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) V. 79 Stainer wrote a hymn-tune ‘per recte et retro’ in 1898. |
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