Anglican chant

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a harmonized, strictly metrical chant to which canticles, psalms, and other liturgical texts are sung in the Anglican Church.

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The owner of the original video of the “dead cops” chant told me it was taken on 32nd Street between 5th and Madison avenues.
The Monsters Who Screamed for Dead Cops|Jacob Siegel|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The same night the “dead cops” chant was recorded, two police officers were attacked on the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Monsters Who Screamed for Dead Cops|Jacob Siegel|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A car parked at a red light honked its horn in rhythm with the chant as the crowd passed in front of it.
‘They Let Him Off?’ Scenes from NYC in Disbelief|Jacob Siegel|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some of the marchers began to chant at the anarchists, reminding them that the movement is bigger than them.
Mexican Protesters Look to Start a New Revolution|Jason McGahan|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Chant: Ve-al kulam, Eloha selichot, selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu.
Jews and Non-Jews Need to Repent for the Sins of the U.S. and Israel|Rabbi Michael Lerner|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
L'Occision des chiens est accoste de la tabagie et de ce qui suyt la tabagie, du chant et des danses.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
There he saw the ceremony of ordination performed, and expressed warm approbation of the Anglican ritual.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
Hence also the word was particularly used to signify any complaint or lament, or a chant at the burial-service.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
Without pausing in his chant—it happened to be one of triumph—without even looking at her, the leader indicated an empty chair.
Hilda|Sarah Jeanette Duncan
The pathos of the chant almost made his listener shrink, so immediate and searching was it.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Complete|Gilbert Parker