How To Use Cadency In A Sentence
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What were the peculiar marks of cadency used by the heirs to the crown, apparent and presumptive, after the accession of the Stuarts?
Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850
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He further indicated that "the ANC will make sure that we earned the Sodom and Gomorra that has led to moral decadency in our society".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)
The Logophile « Write Anything
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Faced with rising neopaganism, the decadency of customs in Rome and Florence, it was enough to ask that people follow the Gospel to be branded as severe censors.
Archive 2006-08-20
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Faced with rising neopaganism, the decadency of customs in Rome and Florence, it was enough to ask that people follow the Gospel to be branded as severe censors.
Archive 2006-08-20
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It seemed to Odo as he gazed on the long line of faces as though their owners had entered one by one into a narrowing defile, where the sun rose later and set earlier on each successive traveller; and in every countenance, from that of the first Duke to that of his own peruked and cuirassed grandfather, he discerned the same symptom of decadency: that duality of will which, in a delicately-tempered race, is the fatal fruit of an undisturbed pre-eminence.
The Valley of Decision
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Short the joylessly rutilus out that the translucency of the sedge attrition in the joliet beforehand is palatopharyngoplasty hatefully and progressively whipsnake as mundanely as thermocautery vestmental eastward to decadency and masculinity in that caledonia.
Rational Review
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The lions and lilies shone over the high dorseret chair in the center, and the same august device marked with the cadency label indicated the seat of the
Sir Nigel
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Marks of cadency are determined and granted for life to the individual by Royal Warrant (from the 19th century, members of the Royal family do not have arms until assigned to them, and these arms are not necessarily inheritable).
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The trine aspect to the ascendant and association with the Sun helps to alleviate the more negative associations of cadency.
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This eliminates the need for an elaborate system of cadency, though to prevent confusion, the spouse's and heir's arms are differenced.
Concordance A Terran Empire concordance
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Of the natural sons of princes something could be made, as witness the dazzling career of Anne's own father; but for natural daughters -- and especially for one who, like herself, bore a double load of cadency -- there was little use or hope.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
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The marks of cadency that they used were varied.
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LE SCROPE, on the other hand, for Cadency marks the golden bend upon his azure Shield, No. 111, with an _annulet sable_, as in No. 353.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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It begins with ease, rises gradually till the voice is inflected, then sinks again, and ends with a just cadency, And perhaps there is not a word in it, whole situation would be altered to an advantage.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
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The lions and lilies shone over the high dorseret chair in the center, and the same august device marked with the cadency label indicated the seat of the Prince, while glowing to right and to left were the long lines of noble insignia, honored in peace and terrible in war.
Sir Nigel
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These types of changes were normally seen between complete strangers in blood, and were not usually used to indicate any form of cadency.
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These are not just paintings of big food, they are portraits of gargantuan decadency.
Evelyne Politanoff: Pantagruelian and Decadent -- Mary Ellen Johnson's Paintings of Big Food
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In relation to the use of personal arms, although in England the ordinary rule and practice were usually observed, elsewhere an ecclesiastic seldom made use of any marks of cadency.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)
The Logophile « Write Anything
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The rose is the emblem of England and in heraldry is used as the mark of cadency for a seventh son.
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The Scots, today, are the major cheerleaders for cadency, and, indeed, the modern Scots system is most elaborate, involving the use of differently tinctured bordures and changing the lines of the bordures to differentiate one man from another.
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Capitalism and democracy seem to be suffering from a strong crisis of identity, of declining importance and decadency.
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort: The Elegant Revolution
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Certainly no quarter of a town could use a mark of cadency below a bendlet, and Florence was more careful than most Italian towns to be precise in her heraldry.
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres
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Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)
The Logophile « Write Anything
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The world with such prosaic eyes, Romance is in decadency!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893
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The decadency of Beiqu(Northero Opera) and rise of Nanqu tunes(Southern Operas) after the middle Ming Dynasty resulted in a great change of theatric and aesthetic fashions.
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The rose is the emblem of England and in heraldry is used as the mark of cadency for a seventh son.
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But the omission of cadency marks does not appear to have been a matter of universally accepted rule.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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The martlet signifies nobility acquired through bravery, prowess or intelligence. On English arms it was a mark of cadency signifying the fourth son, for whom there was little doubt that there would be no land left for him to inherit.
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In ancient heraldry a bendlet azure on a coat was a mark of cadency.
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Certainly no quarter of a town could use a mark of cadency below a bendlet, and Florence was more careful than most Italian towns to be precise in her heraldry.
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres
