Crossword clues for lydian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lydian \Lyd"i*an\, a. [L. Lydius, fr. Lydia, Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character.
Softly sweet in Lydian measures,
Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.
--Dryden.
Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.
Wikipedia
Lydian may refer to:
- Lydian language, an ancient Anatolian language
- Lydians, an ancient people of Anatolia
- Lydian script
- Lydian (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Lydian script
- Lydian mode, one of the modes derived from ancient Greek music
- Lydian (typeface), a decorative typeface
- Lydia, an ancient kingdom in western Anatolia
- Lydian dominant scale, a musical scale
Lydian is a typeface designed by Warren Chappell for American Type Founders in 1938. While the stressed letter designs (most notably in the rounded capitals C, G, O, and Q) suggest a calligraphic style, this is considered a sans-serif font. It is available in bold, italic, and condensed, as well as a Cursive variant. The original foundry font was commissioned and cast by American Type Founders and included an alternate capital A with a cross bar and the original italic used old-style figures for numerals. The various members of the family were introduced over the course of eight years:
- Lydian + Italic (1938)
- Lydian Bold + Italic (1938)
- Lydian Cursive (1940)
- Lydian Condensed + Italic (1946)
Category:Sans-serif typefaces
Lydian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Lydian language of ancient Anatolia.
Usage examples of "lydian".
Softness indolence drunkenness are unbecoming always giving you a rap across the knuckles looking for moral improvement the first thing, point is the first thing is to avoid stress what those Ionian and Lydian harmonies are for, help you avoid stress, avoid stress, avoi, no, no stop right here.
Plato wants to banish, scrape away every fiction get down to the truth, to the naked animal banish them yes, banish the Lydian mode and the Ionian and the flute above all the flute worse than all the strings together invented for nothing but pleasure and Homer, banish Homer and all of the poets and painters and sculptors whose love poems and naked Venuses celebrate women as instruments of pleasure take that first movement of The Kreutzer Sonata, the presto you say, can we allow it to be played in a drawing room full of women in lowcut dresses?
To make matters worse, the people speak neither Persian nor Greek, while no one on earth speaks Lydian except the Lydians.
Yet the Lydian cavalry is the best in the world, and a mainstay of the Persian army.
Some were being relieved of their exotic burdens while others were being loaded with such Lydian goods as red figs, twelve-stringed harps, gold .
I used to own a silver Lydian coin that was thought to be more than a century old.
Artaphrenes agreed to commit half the Persian army and half the Lydian cavalry to an attack on Miletus.
Ardes stood next to the high priestess, doing whatever it was that the last member of the Lydian royal house was expected to do on such a high occasion.
By the time we arrived in the market enclosure, it was already crowded with townspeople as well as with Persian and Lydian troops.
When they saw the Persian army and the Lydian cavalry drawn up for battle, they stopped in their tracks.
Although Lydians tend to be pro-Greek, they were in such a fury at the sacrilege shown to Cybele that the Lydian cavalry annihilated half the Greek forces on the road to Ephesus.
The principal instrument is something like the Lydian harp but with ten strings.
I had the sensation that I was dreaming the sort of dream that one sometimes has after too large a Lydian dinner.
Needless to say, not even a Lydian orchestra could have ravished my ear more than that single phrase.
The five hundred Lydian guards Cyrus had posted over the camp arrangements, in continued punishment for their sorry performance before Queen Epyaxa, stalked impatiently among the chaos, irritated at being assigned to camp detail.