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‖ sanctus|ˈsæŋktəs|
Also (senses 2 and 3) 6 saunts, saunce, saunt(us, 6–7 sant, 7 santus, santo, santez, 6 (9 arch.) santis.
[L. sanctus ‘Holy’, the first word of the hymn: see saint a.]
1. The ‘angelic hymn’ (from Isa. vi. 3) beginning with the words ‘Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus’ (‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts’) which forms the conclusion of the Eucharistic preface; also called tersanctus (thrice holy). Also, the music to which the words are sung.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 169 Ioly chauntynge þat..lettiþ men fro þe sentence of holy writt, as Magnyficat, sanctus & agnus dei. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 119 Therfore accordynge to the aungels, ye synge quyer to quyer, one Sanctus on the tone syde, and another on the tother syde. 1528Roy Rede Me (Arb.) 36 Fare wele O holy consecration With blyssed sanctus and agnus dei. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 129 Quhair day and nycht we sall not ceas Ay singand Sanctus sweit. 1895Benham in W. Andrews Cur. Ch. Cust. 265 We always sang the Canticles, and the metrical Psalms..and a few Sanctuses.
†2. transf. An outcry. Also, something repeated with wearisome iteration. Obs.
15942nd Rep. Dr. Faustus xxii. I 2, The people on both sides exceedingly amazed and affrighted, especiallye the Turkes who sent out such a dolefull Sauntus that it would haue moued the stones to ruth. a1670Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 626 For all this they are at their old santez, What do we?
†3. black sanctus, a kind of burlesque hymn; a discord of harsh sounds expressive of contempt or dislike (formerly used as a kind of serenade to a faithless wife); ‘rough music’. Also, to sing the black sanctus: to lament. Obs.
1578Lupton All for Money B iij, I will make him sing the blacke sanctus, I holde him a grote. 1578Bk. Chr. Prayers 37 But euery man singes his own song, as in a black sanctus. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) 1 Cor. xiv. 23 note, Singing Psalmes.., one in this language, and another in that, all at once like a blacke saunts, and one often not vnderstood of another. 1591Lyly Endym. iv. ii. 33 It [the sonnet] is sette to the tune of the blacke Saunce, ratio est, because Dipsas is a black Saint. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 128 A great number had rather heare a iarring blacke-sant, then one of their balde Sermons. 1598Marston Sco. Villanie ii. vii. 85 The language that they speake Is the pure barbarous blacksaunt of the Geate. 1600Holland Livy v. xxxvii. 204 An hideous and dissonant kind of singing (like a blacke Santus). a1619Fletcher Mad Lover iv. i, Lets sing him a blacke Santis. 1632Heywood 2nd Part Iron Age ii. i. D 2 b, Many a blacke-saint..Haue I sung at his window. 1635Quarles Embl. i. x. 41 Sometimes their Stigian cries Send their Black-Santos to the blushing Skies. 1861All Year Round V. 14 The surly sinners sing A horrible black santis, so to cheer The work in hand. |