The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cantation \Can*ta"tion\, n. [L. cantatio.]
A singing. [Obs.]
--Blount.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A singing.
Usage examples of "cantation".
Only then did she murmur the First Cantation, the words bending reality around her, ready to receive the imprint of a new Form.
She murmured the First Cantation, letting herself slide into the familiar waiting state.
She closed her eyes, and whispered the first cantation, letting the local harmonies wash over her.
When she was sure she had fixed them in her mind, she murmured the First Cantation, the words that bent the solid reality of the material world and allowed her to shape that substance to a new Form.
She felt for the elemental harmonies, held them, and subvocalized the cantation that bent them to her will.
But if he let them go to work some greater cantation, they might somehow find a way to block it.