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Canticle

noun
(pl. canticles)
1.
A hymn derived from the Bible.



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"Canticle" Quotes from Famous Books



... This little canticle was, in truth, very different from the hymns to Venus which used to resound in the temple which the convent had displaced. The voices which sang were of a deep, plaintive contralto, much resembling the richness of a tenor, and us they moved in modulated waves of chanting sound ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861 • Various
... four chapters—four yarns—is one of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet what depths of the soul does Jonah's deep sealine sound! what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet! What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish's belly! How billow-like and boisterously grand! We feel the floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us! But WHAT is this lesson that the ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... head, expands his wings, and hops away to meet his master. In the eucharistic office of St Kentigern's day, this event, along with the restoration to life of a meritorious cook, and other miracles, inspired a canticle which, for long subsequent ages, was exultingly sung by the choristers in the saint's own ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton


Words linked to "Canticle" :   anthem, hymn, Magnificat


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