2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, inThe Guardian[1]:
On Friday, at a former Michelin factory in the north-east of the city, the finishing touches were being put in place for thefifth Dundee design festival, which opens on Monday.
Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, thefifth
fifth (third-person singular simple presentfifths,present participlefifthing,simple past and past participlefifthed)
(music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
1996,Music in Early English Religious Drama: Minstrels playing[2], page510:
Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'.Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each musical phrase at the octave and proceeding mainly in fifths above the tune at others times.
Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.
(transitive,informal) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
1854 January, “Tregonhorke’s First Trip in a Man-of-War”, inHunt’s Yachting Magazine, volume the third, London: Hunt and Son,[…]; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.,[…], page14:
A lisping young “Soundings,” or master’s assistant, sung out “Ithecond themothon,” instantly transferringhis beer to our hero’s face. In short the resolution wasthirded,fourthed,fifthed, andsixthed, all following suit with the swipes:[…]
It was then moved, seconded, thirded, fourthed, andfifthed, “that Jarman be, and is hereby hung, and ought to be kicked.”
2017,Critics Pick the TV Shows That Get Mental Health Right — IndieWire Survey[4]:
Though seconding (orfifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”
