Definition of Cantillated

1. cantillate [v] - See also: cantillate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantillated

canticum
canticums
cantier
cantiest
cantiga
cantigas
cantilena
cantilenas
cantilever
cantilever beam
cantilever bridge
cantilevered
cantilevering
cantilevers
cantillate
cantillated (current term)
cantillates
cantillating
cantillation
cantillations
cantina
cantinas
cantiness
canting
cantingly
cantings
cantion
cantions
cantle
cantled

Literary usage of Cantillated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Music (1894)
"for they did not speak but intoned or cantillated their parts throughout. ... In the center where now is the parquet was the chorus, which cantillated the ..."

2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1851)
"... from place to place in the exercise of their vocation, and cantillated their stock of lays in the halls of chiefs and at the festivals of the gods. ..."

3. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1841)
"... i set to the same musical notes, with the original H could be read or cantillated in the same tone as UK the public assemblies of the Jews. ..."

4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1851)
"... from place to place in the exercise of their vocation, and cantillated their stock of lays in the halls of chiefs and at the festivals of the gods. ..."

5. Na Motu: Or, Reef-rovings in the South Seas by Edward T. Perkins (1854)
"... answering to our line, was as many words as could be easily cantillated at one breath. '' Though this piece has no more measure or chime than the ..."

6. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1833)
"... modern Rabbins.1 The Jews of the present day actually employ the accents as musical signs. The Torah is sung or cantillated by them in their synagogues. ..."

7. A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Canonical Scriptures of the by Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette, Theodore Parker (1864)
"The musical execution of the Psalms lies in great obscurity, but it is probable they were merely cantillated. Bertholdt compares it to the sacred song of ..."

8. Lyric Diction for Singers, Actors and Public Speakers by Dora Duty Jones (1913)
"When placed, this vowel resonance forms the basis of the word, whether that word be whispered, spoken, intoned, "cantillated," or sung. ..."

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