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▪ I. † verˈsicular, n. Obs.—1
[ad. med.L. versiculārius, f. L. versiculus versiculus: see -ar2.]
One whose office it was to say or sing the versicles.
c1450in Aungier Syon (1840) 364 Of the versiculars for the wyke. The two sustres that be tabled to synge the versicles schal synge the Venite.
▪ II. versicular, a.|vəˈsɪkjʊlə(r)|
[f. L. versiculus versicle n. + -ar1.]
Of or pertaining to, characterized by, consisting of, versicles or verses, esp. Biblical verses.
1812J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 72 The theological uses of the hebraic versicular system. 1840G. S. Faber Christ's Disc. Capernaum 20 That the sort of unconscious delusion, produced by the versicular figures, may be dissipated, I have..omitted those figures altogether. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2242 It was in this edition that the versicular division of the New Testament was..introduced. |