See also:

• TENOR (through Fr. and It. from Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a law, tone)

TENOR (through Fr. and It. from See also:

• LAT

Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone)  , a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general course or direction, the See also:

• DRIFT (from "drive ")

drift or general meaning of a statement or discourse, hence, in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the true purport and effect of a See also:

• DEED (in O. Eng. dead, from the stem of the verb " to do ")

deed or See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument . The most general use of the word is, in See also:

• MUSIC

music, for the highest See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of the natural adult male See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice . This use descends from the See also:

• MEDIEVAL

Medieval Latin See also:

• TENOR (through Fr. and It. from Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a law, tone)

tenor, which was applied first to the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody, the cantus firmus, and then to the male voice to which the singing of this was assigned .