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BREVE,n. [L. brevis.]

1. In music, a note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves.

2. In law, a writ directed to the chancellor,judges, sheriffs or other officers,whereby a person is summoned, or attached, to answer in the king's court.

This word, in the latter sense, is more generally written brief.




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BREVE,n. [L. brevis.]

1. In music, a note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves.

2. In law, a writ directed to the chancellor,judges, sheriffs or other officers,whereby a person is summoned, or attached, to answer in the king's court.

This word, in the latter sense, is more generally written brief.


BREVE, n. [It. breve; L. brevis; Sp. breve; Fr. bref, short. See Brief.]

  1. In music, a note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. [Not now used.]
  2. In law, a writ directed to the chancellor, judges, sherifs or other officers, whereby a person is summoned, or attached, to answer in the king's court. – Encyc. This word, in the latter sense, is more generally written brief.

Breve
  1. A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: &?] ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much used for choir service.

    Moore.
  2. Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
  3. A curved mark [***breve]] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.
  4. The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.
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Breve

BREVE,noun [Latin brevis.]

1. In music, a note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves.

2. In law, a writ directed to the chancellor, judges, sheriffs or other officers, whereby a person is summoned, or attached, to answer in the king's court.

This word, in the latter sense, is more generally written brief.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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AMER'ICA, n. [from Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine, who pretended to have first discovered the western continent.]

One of the great continents, first discovered by Sebastian Cabot, June 11, O.S. 1498, and by Columbus, or Christoval Colon, Aug. 1, the same year. It extends from the eightieth degree of North, to the fifty-fourth degree of South Latitude; and from the thirty-fifth to the one hundred and fifty-sixth degree of Longitude West from Greenwich, being about nine thousand miles in length. Its breadth at Darien is narrowed to about forty-five miles, but at the northern extremity is nearly four thousand miles. From Darien to the North, the continent is called North America, and to the South, it is called South America.

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