sungadj.
/sʌŋ/, U.S. /səŋ/ 1. Related or celebrated in song or verse; publicly recounted, extolled. Frequently with preceding modifying adverb. Cf. well-sung adj.
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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. l. 202 (MED) By olde tyme for her writing trewe, Thei [sc. clerks] cherisched werne of lordes..For they enacted..Her famous conquest and her songe glories.
1647 A. Cowley Mistresse 8 I'll fixe thy title next in fame To Sacharissas well-sung name.
1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 435 The well-sung woes shall sooth my pensive ghost.
1865 A. B. Thompson Victoria Hist. Eng. 183 In this year was fought the often sung battle of Otterburn.
1929 Chile (Latin Amer. News Mag.) Mar. 105/2 Even in the United States, the much-sung model republic, a great Civil War was necessary before the existing nationalist interpretation..was acquiesced to.
1991 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 115 458 This oft-sung refrain from the Dudley affair grew tiresome.
2010 P. Drahos Global Governance Knowl. 86 One of the sung praises of the signal claim is that it offers..a means of protecting computer software.
2. That is or has been sung, esp. as opposed to spoken or recited. Frequently of a religious service, form of worship, etc. (cf. said adj. 2). Cf. well-sung adj.
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society > faith > worship > church music > [adjective] > sung or chanted
sung1473
chanted1565
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > sung
sung1473
recorded1568
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > chanting or chanted
sung1473
chanted1565
canting1748
chanting1838
intoning1863
monotoning1878
1473 in J. Robertson Liber Collegii Glasguensis (1846) 186 The forsaide mes salbe changit fra a saide mes till a songyn mes.
1491 in J. Cooper Cartularium Eccl. St. Nicholai Aberdonensis (1888) I. 257 The placebo and dirige one Monunday..and the songe mes with note on the morne thereftire.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxiii. sig. ✠ That part will they sing, in all theyr sung song.
c1633 in W. J. Duncan Misc. Papers Reigns Queen Mary & James VI (1834) 124 That for my soul ther be said a novennarie of sung maisse of the corps present.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 202 At their sung operas.
1848 R. S. Hawker in Life & Lett. (1905) ix. 137 I do not like sung Psalms.
1906 A. Werner Natives Brit. Central Afr. x. 231 Most of them [sc. stories] contain short pieces which are sung... Steere points out that these sung parts are very common in the Swahili tales.
1967 Ethnomusicology 11 93 In the past the cumbia was a purely instrumental form but sung stanzas have since been introduced.
2015 Church Times 4 Sept. 13/2 At Canterbury Cathedral's sung mass, the cathedral says goodbye to the choir boys who are leaving.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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