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Liturgical verse
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antiphon
Word definitions for antiphon in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Antiphon of Athens was a sophist and an epic poet. His entry in the Suda says that he was surnamed logomageiros , and others state that he wrote on the interpretation of signs. Not a line of his poems is extant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "a versicle sung responsively," from Middle French antiphone "hymn" or directly from Medieval Latin antiphona , from Greek antiphona , from anti- "over against" (see anti- ) + phone "voice" (see fame (n.)). A re-adoption of the word which had become ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response [syn: antiphony ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A devotional piece of music sung responsively. 2 A response or reply.
Usage examples of antiphon.
In over two thousand closely printed pages, it managed to include all the festal days, the Hours of the monastic Office, the complex and elaborate rites once performed between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday, the psalms and their intonations, a wealth of antiphons, Glorias, Credos, Introits, Graduals, smatterings of Ambrosian and even Gallican chant, and much more.
This antiphon between the full chorus and the female quartette continues in varying style throughout the chorus, and the result is thrilling in the extreme.
Gradually there were added to these psalter choir-books additions in the form of antiphons, responses, collects or short prayers, for the use of those not skilful at improvisation and metrical compositions.
Roman Catholic province of St Andrews in 1903 contains many of the old Aberdeen collects and antiphons.
The choir shifted to a new set of canticles and antiphons as MacGregor presented it to Hubert, who lit it from flint and tinder struck by a waiting deacon and then held the lit candle aloft in salute to the altar.
More Frenchmen press, and roaring antiphons Of cannonry contuse the roofs and walls and trees.
She turned one of the legal pads around, examined the antiphon that Sandy was currently deciphering.