Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DI-AS-TAL'TIC
DI-AS-TAL'TIC, a. [Gr. διαςαλτικος, dilating.]
Dilated; noble; bold; an epithet given by the Greeks to certain intervals in music, as the major third, major sixth, and major seventh. – Busby.
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