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mene

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What does mene mean?

noun

  1. The high middle singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition, corresponding roughly to the alto.

proper noun

  1. A goddess of the Moon, specifically presiding over the months, sometimes regarded as an epithet of Selene.
  2. A surname

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Belshazzar trembled when he saw the fingers of a man's hand writing upon the wall, Mene tekel phares.
Richard de BuryThe Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de BuryTranslated by Ernest Chester ThomasProject Gutenberg ebook #626
Criseyde mene was of hir stature, Ther-to of shap, of face, and eek of chere, Ther mighte been no fairer creature.
Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CriseydeProject Gutenberg ebook #257
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Mene huic confidere monstro! Mene salis placidi vultum, fluctusque quietos Ignorare?”
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; but in all my voyagings, seldom have I heard a common oath when God’s burning finger has been laid on the ship; when His “Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin” has been woven into the shrouds and the cordage.
Herman MelvilleMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleProject Gutenberg ebook #2701