Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave
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Definition of plagal in English Spanish dictionary
[ 'plA-g&l ] (adjective.) 1597. From Late Latin plagalis, from Latin plaga, from plagius, from Byzantine Greek πλάγιος ‘plagal’, Ancient Greek πλάγιος ‘oblique’.