Definition of Cantillates

1. cantillate [v] - See also: cantillate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantillates

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

Literary usage of Cantillates

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

1. Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D.: Constituting by James Waddel Alexander (1860)
"He cantillates, and more and more as he gets on ; never uttering one sentence as he would at his table. He writhes, and brings his right arm around, ..."

2. A Commentary on the Book of Daniel by Moses Stuart (1850)
"... ie one who cantillates supplications, execrations, and the like, in order to prevent or remove evil, or to obtain some disclosure of interest to the ..."

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