, in Music, one of the terms used by the Italians to express a degree or distinction of time.
Adagio denotes the slowest time except grave.
Sometimes the word is repeated, as adagio, adagio, to denote a still slower time than the former. |
Adagio also signifies a slow movement, when used substantively.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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