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 Savage, Ernest Albert
There are also some fifteenth-century psalters and antiphonaries.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
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 Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Then seven or eight antiphonaries brought us back again to low prices.
From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by France, Anatole
Business had invaded the cloisters where, in place of antiphonaries, heavy ledgers reposed on reading-desks.
From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
