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cantillation|kæntɪˈleɪʃən|
Also cantiˈlation.
[f. prec: see -ation.]
Chanting, intoning, musical recitation; spec. that used in Jewish synagogues.
1864Engel Mus. Anc. Nat. 328 The kind of singing which musicians call cantillation, and which may be heard in every synagogue. 1879Stainer Music of Bible 158 The Arabs..recite the Koran to a sort of irregular chant or cantillation. 1901W. B. Yeats Let. 16 Mar. (1954) iv. 348 Mr. Runciman said that I called a method of speaking verse..‘Cantilation’... You will perhaps permit me to say that Mr. Runciman invented the word. I never used it, and I don't mean to. 1919E. Pound Quia Pauper Amavi 39 Up, up my soul, from your lowly cantilation.
Hence cantiˈlationary a.
1902G. B. Shaw Let. 6 June in C. Bax Farr, Shaw & Yeats (1941) 19, I should do no good by entering into cantilationary polemics... Half the curates in the kingdom cantilate like mad all the time. |