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benight (medicine) and polyphonic (iou)


benight (medicine)


benight


1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. "The clouds benight the sky." (Garth)

2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. "Some virgin, sure, . . . Benighted in these woods." (Milton)

3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. "Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ?" (Heber)

Origin: Benighted; Benighting.

Source: Websters Dictionary


polyphonic (iou)



polyphonic adjective. L18.
[formed as POLYPHONE + -IC.]
Music.
a. Composed or arranged for several voices or parts, each having a melody of its own; consisting of a number of melodies combined; contrapuntal; of or pertaining to polyphonic Music. L18.
b. Of an instrument: capable of producing more than one note at a time. L19.
Producing many sounds; many-voiced (lit. & fig.); (of prose) written to sound pleasant and melodious. M19.
Philology. Of a letter etc.: having more than one phonetic value. L19.
polyphonical adjective (rare) M19.
polyphonically adverb M20.