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Definition of Church mode
1. Noun. Any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode.
Generic synonyms: Mode, Musical Mode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Church Mode
Literary usage of Church mode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conversations on the Choral Service: Being an Examination of Popular by Robert Druitt (1853)
"... the church mode. B. IT occurs to me, Mr. Felix, that it is not easy to get
over the very first objection that strikes one on comparing the ..."
2. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"The fifth is not omitted, which shows that it was composed under the influence
of the church mode; on the other hand, neither the seventh nor sixth occurs ..."
3. A Dictionary of Congregational Usages and Principles, According to Ancient by Preston Cummings (1852)
"CHURCH, mode of constituting. — A summary of the usual ceremonies in constituting
a church is given in Cotton's Way of the Churches,1 and Cot. ..."
4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1867)
"... has never adopted any uniform model for Missionary work, and that consequently
no one mode can be called a distinctively church mode more than another. ..."
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