Organum Definition

ôrgə-nəm
organa
noun

Organon.

Webster's New World
An early type of polyphony based on plainsong, in which the voices are separated by an interval of a fourth, fifth, or octave.
Webster's New World
A composition in this style.
Webster's New World
(archaic) A method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted.
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Origin of Organum

  • Medieval Latin from Late Latin church organ from Latin instrument organ

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (organon, “organ, instrument, tool").

    From Wiktionary

Organum Sentence Examples

  • It has been called by Whewell at once the Encyclopaedia and the Organum of the 13th century.

  • Boyle's great merit as a scientific investigator is that he carried out the principles which Bacon preached in the Novum Organum.

  • His great work is his Commentarii in Organum Logicum Aristotelis (Bordeaux, 1618); the copy in the British Museum contains a number of highlyeulogistic poems in honour of Balfour, who is described as Graium aemulus acer.

  • But, unfortunately, he did not mean the logical inferences described in the Organon and the Novum organum.

  • There are two old logics which still remain indispensable, Aristotle's Organon and Bacon's Novum Organum.

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