Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantillating
Literary usage of Cantillating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1853)
"Many, even some good people, apply the nickname "cant" to the solemn, prolonged,
and cantillating tone of some unquestionably pious men. ..."
2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1903)
"... by carefully furnishing them with the cantillating symbols these manuals were
also intended to aid those who had publicly to read the Sabbatical Lessons ..."
3. Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia and Mesopotamia: With by Horatio Southgate (1840)
"... the carpet with a large copy of the Koran before him, reading in the low,
cantillating tone, and with the see-saw motion of the body always observed. ..."
4. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1843)
"It appears to be a fact that cantillating, or the mixing up of a little song in
conversation so as to form a kind of recitative, is a practice common to ..."
5. A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Canonical Scriptures of the by Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette (1843)
"... the Old Testament was recited, or intonated, in the synagogues, in a half-singing
manner, like the cantillating reading of the Koran in the mosques. ..."
6. Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D.: Constituting by James Waddel Alexander (1860)
"This morning we had—1, a venerable gray-haired man, without hat, led by a dog,
cantillating his woes ; 2, a trio, Hindoo man and two children, ..."
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