Crossword clues for canticle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canticle \Can"ti*cle\, n.; pl. Canticles. [L. canticulum a little song, dim. of canticum song, fr. cantus a singing, fr. coner to sing. See Chant.]
A song; esp. a little song or hymn. [Obs.]
--Bacon.pl. The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.
A canto or division of a poem [Obs.]
--Spenser.A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"short hymn," early 13c., from Latin canticulum "a little song," diminutive of canticum "song" (also a scene in Roman comedy enacted by one person and accompanied by music and dancing), from cantus (see chant (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. a chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text
WordNet
n. a hymn derived from the Bible
Wikipedia
A Canticle is a chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text.
Canticle can also refer to:
- Canticle of Canticles, another name for the Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) book of the Bible
- Canticle (novel), a book in The Cleric Quintet of the Forgotten Realms world, by Robert Anthony Salvatore
- " Scarborough Fair/Canticle", 1968 setting by Simon & Garfunkel
- Canticle, 2009 novel by Ken Scholes from the Psalms of Isaak saga
- A Canticle for Leibowitz, 1960 novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
See also
- Five Canticles, song cycle by Benjamin Britten
Usage examples of "canticle".
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.
The wizard opened the heavy door, and the unholy canticle drowned out his next words.
He heard the midday canticle, then watched many priests and other scholars exit alone or in groups for an early afternoon stroll.
He raised his hands above his head in a sinuous pass and begun the hypnotically rhythmic canticle that would guide the first of the swarm to do his bidding.
Then in 1945 the figure of the drowned Antinous, borne along somehow on that Lethean current, came again to the surface in an unfinished essay, Canticle of the Soul and its True Freedom, written just before the advent of a serious illness.
Saint Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, set in the same future as his classic A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Here is a Latin Psalter with the Canticles, from the press of Fust and Schoeffer, the second book issued from their press, the second book printed with a date, that date being 1459.
Church canticles with a point that discomposed his adversary, and caused him to retreat a step, claiming support against such shrewd assault.
But the transcendent beauty of the modern drama is lent by the ethical idea of salvation through the love of pure woman--a salvation touching which no one can be in doubt when Tannhauser sinks lifeless beside the bier of the atoning saint, and Venus's cries of woe are swallowed up by the pious canticle of the returning pilgrims.
I began to write my own canticles, simple poetry which I made up, using much rhythm, and to sing these songs at informal gatherings.
I wanted to be in Santa Maria del Fiori in Florence listening to the canticles or the High Mass.
How greatly did I weep in Thy hymns and canticles, deeply moved by the voices of Thy sweet-speaking Church!
Stranger in a Strange Land breaks apart in the middle, Dune has stylistic lapses, and even A Canticle for Leibowiti, lacks centricity, to cite only three examples.
To the right were the three floors occupied by those interred in life, where the gasp of the undertow at the cliffs and the prayers and canticles of the canonical hours almost never penetrated.