antiphonary
noun
a book of antiphons.
antiphonaries
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pluralof antiphonary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Another bishop, R. de Maidstone, although "vir magnae literaturae, et in theologia nominatissimus," only seems to have given the church two antiphonaries, some psalters, and a Legenda.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
There are also some fifteenth-century psalters and antiphonaries.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
Then seven or eight antiphonaries brought us back again to low prices.
From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France
Altars, statues, pictures, antiphonaries, missals, graduals—all underwent a common fate.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
We walk through the fretted cloisters that once echoed with the tread of sandalled monks and saw them illuminating and copying wonderful missals, antiphonaries, and other manuscripts which we prize so highly now.
From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
