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adjective
- designating a mode in music, the highest of the ancient Greek modes, and now having final G and D dominant
- 1922: It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and " James Joyce, Ulysses
Etymology: Greek - "half-Lydian", from - (from base of "to mix") + (Lydia, an ancient country in Asia Minor, which gave its name to another Greek mode).
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