[Latinized form of Gr. τεχνικά neuter pl. = technical matters, and of τεχνική fem. sing.] = TECHNIC B. 2, TECHNIQUE.
1796. Burney, Mem. Metastasio, III. 359. Definitions of the technica of ancient music.
1855. trans. Labarte’s Arts Mid. Ages, 2. Christian art, unable so immediately to create for itself a new technica, adopted the style of antiquity in its then degenerate state.
