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hymnal, a. and n.|ˈhɪmnəl|
[f. L. hymn-us + -al1. The n. use represents a med.L. hymnāle occurring as imnale in Wr.-Wülcker 589/1.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to a hymn or hymns.
1644Sir E. Dering Prop. Sacr. C iij b, Use of Musick in the hymnall part of Service. 1763J. Brown Poetry & Mus. vi. 102 We find many of the elder Poets of Greece mixing the hymnal and enthusiastic with the historic or narrative Species. 1887Sir T. Martin in Blackw. Mag. Nov. 689 They begin the awful Hymnal lay.
B. n. A collection of hymns for use in divine worship; a hymn-book.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 588/6 Hymnare [in later hand] a hymnale. 1537in Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bp. Stortford (1882) 127 Item an Imnall prynted and iiij pr[oc]essionals of parchement. 1543Churchw. Acc. St. Giles, Reading 67 Paid for an Imnenall xiiijd. 1554in Antiquary (1894) Nov. 187 For ij hymnalls iiijs. 1846W. Maskell Mon. Rit. I. p. xcvi, It cannot be doubted that S. Augustine, with the breviary and missal recommended by S. Gregory, introduced also the hymnal then used at Rome. 1887(title) Congregational Church Hymnal. |