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noun
Breve  n.  
1.
(Mus.) 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, but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; formerly much used for choir service.
2.
(Law) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
3.
(Print.) A curved mark used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.
4.
(Zool.) The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.





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"Breve" Quotes from Famous Books



... sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile tempus Omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere factis, Hoc ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux
... e-text is taken had vowels with breves or macrons over them, diacritical marks that cannot be reproduced in this e-text. The first time such a word appears within a story the marks are represented using [x] for a vowel with a macron and [)x] for a vowel with a breve (example: M[a]-m[)i]n'). Subsequent appearances of the word do not have the vowels ...
— Blackfeet Indian Stories • George Bird Grinnell
... the stress markers and ' are intended to display above the macron () or breve (u or [)]). In this simplified Latin-1 text, they are shown before (to the left of) ...
— Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book - with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary • C. Alphonso Smith
... caron ^{u} superscript u (circumflex accent is not used in this text) Vowels with diacritics are "unpacked" and shown from top to bottom. Some examples: ['ae] ae with acute accent [-e] e with macron (long e) [)e] e with breve (short e) [e,] e with ogonek (hook open ...
— Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch • George Tobias Flom
... common song of praise! Some will sing a little loud, perhaps,—and now and then an impatient chorister will get a syllable or two in advance, or an enchanted singer so lose all thought of time and place in the luxury of a closing cadence that he holds on to the last semi-breve upon his private responsibility; but how much more of the spirit of the old Psalmist in the music of these imperfectly trained voices than in the academic niceties of the paid performers who take our musical ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)


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