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octavated en · ADJ

Etymology

From octavate + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of an instrument, rare) Altered to sound a pitch one octave lower than its usual range.
    • Ob 2 = violin 2 (octavated, except bar 4, which is from basset-horn 2) 1987, Bastiaan Blomhert, The Harmoniemusik of Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, page 60: