单词 | canticle |
释义 | canticlen. 1. a. A song; a hymn. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > [noun] hymnc825 psalmeOE lof-songeOE canticlea1325 cantic1483 Te Deum1679 hymnica1834 Yigdal1845 spiritual1858 Sankey1887 kirtan1898 bhajan1914 Hare Krishna1968 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > hymn or song of praise hymnc825 psalmeOE heryingc897 lof-songeOE alleluiaOE canticlea1325 cantic1483 laud1530 hallelujah1614 theody1867 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > short song canticlea1325 cantic1483 canzonet1593 carolet1593 cangenet1598 canzonetta1724 chansonnette1735 songlet1831 chantleta1874 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4124 He [Moses]..wrot an canticle. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. ii. f. 9 In the Cantikil of Moyses. 1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 210 Thus his Morning Canticle he sung. Awake, my Love, [etc.]. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 201 Religious canticles stimulant of zeal. 1881 J. C. Shairp in Academy 12 Feb. 112 The Queen's Wake contains several ballads which exhibit..much more of his power than this tiny little canticle. b. spec. One of the hymns (mostly taken from the Scriptures) used in the public services of the Church. (In the English Prayer-Book applied only to the Benedicite; but often used also of the Benedictus, Jubilate, Magnificat, Cantate, Nunc Dimittis, and Deus misereatur, and sometimes of the Te Deum.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > canticle canticle1625 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) ii. 9 The sweetest Canticle is, Nunc dimittis. a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1872) 3rd Ser. iv. 55 The canticle which belongs to our morning service. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist ii. 72 The evangelic canticles contained in this chapter. 1880 T. Helmore in Grove Dict. Music I. 336 The short melodies sung to the psalms and canticles in the English Church. c. transferred. ΚΠ 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend Nativity 142 Where robins chant their Litanies, And canticles of joy. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xxiv. 404 The time-honoured canticles of a doctrine already discarded. 2. plural. A name for the Song of Solomon. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [noun] > song of Solomon love-book?c1225 Song of Songsa1382 Canticaa1400 canticles1526 Song of Solomon1548 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. evii Rede the canticles of Salomon. 1712 T. Tickell Spectator No. 410. ⁋5 A Translation of one of the Chapters in the Canticles into English Verse. 1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. v The Canticles must be interpreted literally; and then it was..a necessary step, to exclude the book from the canon. a. A canto of a poem. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > canto fitc888 canto1590 canticle1596 canton1609 jornada1656 duan1763 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E8 The end whereof..Shall for another canticle be spared. View more context for this quotation 1647 H. More Philos. Poems iii. iii. l So large matter..for a fresh Canticle more fit. b. A small canto. (humorous.) ΚΠ 1819 Ld. Byron Let. 6 Apr. (1976) VI. 105 You sha'n't make Canticles of my Cantos. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1325 |
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