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Definition of Canticles
1. Noun. An Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later.
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings, Sapiential Book, Wisdom Book, Wisdom Literature
Definition of Canticles
1. Proper noun. (biblical) Also known as the Canticle of Canticles, an alternative name for the Song of Solomon, a book of the Bible in the Old Testament. ¹
2. Noun. (plural of canticle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canticles
1. canticle [n] - See also: canticle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canticles
Literary usage of Canticles
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, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"These canticles take the place of a fourth psalm at Lauds. ... These three
canticles are sometimes referred to as the "evangelical canticles", ..."
2. The Hymnal: Revised and Enlarged, as Adopted by the General Convention of ...by Episcopal Church by Episcopal Church (1889)
"IN putting forth this pointing of the Canticles, etc., In accordance with the
direction of the General convention, the Commission would call attention to ..."
3. Special Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament by Francis Ernest Gigot (1906)
"CHAPTER VL THE CANTICLE OF Canticles. § 1. Name and Unity of the Work. I. Name.
The book which immediately follows Eccle- ..."
4. The Bosworth Psalter: An Account of a Manuscript Formerly Belonging to O by Edmund Bishop, Francis Aidan Gasquet, Leslie Alexander St. Lawrence Toke (1908)
"directs that when the Matins are said with three nocturns, after the close of
the second nocturn lessons, ' three Canticles from the Prophets, ..."
5. Select English Works of John Wyclif by John Wycliffe (1871)
"But in the Commentary on the Canticles, the difference caused by ... The former
copy, containing only seven canticles, has not a single word which might not ..."
6. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"But it was not thought advisable to print it till 1798. Even then a version of
the Canticles, in Spanish oc- 7 A Spanish ..."
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