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Definition of Cantillations
1. cantillation [n] - See also: cantillation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantillations
Literary usage of Cantillations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"These incantations had to be recited according to fixed cantillations, and the
soothsayer's art consisted in knowing them thoroughly, copying them ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1879)
"Though the thundering roll of the deepest bass filled the vast spaces of St.
Isaac's Church with the cantillations, and the answering choir gave the rarest ..."
3. Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the by William Ellis (1833)
"The missionaries had often, with mingled feelings of horror and pity, heard their
songs of licentiousness or of war, as well as the cantillations of their ..."
4. Music (1900)
"... present upon this occasion was Mr. Weidig, who thought that the strange melodies
had been in part assimilated from the old synagogue cantillations. ..."
5. Variations by James Huneker (1921)
"It revelled in the cantillations and employed as leading motive the Shofar, or
ram's-born blown in the synagogues on Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. ..."
6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1879)
"Though the thundering roll of the deepest bass filled the vast spaces of St.
Isaac's Church with the cantillations, and the answering choir gave the rarest ..."
7. Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary: Being a Summer's Ride Beyond the by George Fleming (1863)
"... that—despite the watchman's punctilious chronological registrations on the
noisy gong, the melodious cantillations of the early vendors of materials for ..."
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