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portative

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por·ta·tive  (pôrt-tv, pr-)
adj.
1. Portable.
2. Capable of or used in carrying.

[Middle English portatif, from Old French, from Latin portre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.]

portative [ˈpɔːtətɪv]
adj
1. a less common word for portable
2. concerned with the act of carrying
[from French, from Latin portāre to carry]


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The program will include solo cantatas, a trio sonata and solo keyboard works performed on harpsichord and portative.
The most common English rendering of the Hebrew kinnor (an instrument something like a lyre) (34) is "harps," but confusion persists due to the Vulgate's use of organa, a generic term for "instruments" that has even been rendered occasionally as the English "organ" -- a rather cumbersome thing to hang on a tree, even in the medieval portative form.
Program, which celebrates a new Petty portative organ at the church, will include a concerto for organ and strings by Vivaldi and a recorder concerto by Sammartini.
 
 
 
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