antiphonary

American  

[an-tif-uh-ner-ee] / ænˈtɪf əˌnɛr i /

noun

antiphonaries plural

1. a book of antiphons.

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antiphonary British  

/ ænˈtɪfənərɪ /

noun

1. a bound collection of antiphons, esp for use in the divine office

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adjective

1. of or relating to such a book

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• antiphonaries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of antiphonary

1425–75; late Middle English < Medieval Latin antiphōnārium; learned borrowing replacing earlier versions, which had undergone changes: Middle English anfenere, antefenar, antiphoner ( e ), Old English antefnere (compare Middle Dutch antiffenaer, Middle Low German antifenēr, Old High German antiphenere ) < Medieval Latin See antiphon, -ary

Example Sentences

The remarkable thing which brings tourists to the Paludi is, however, the antiphonary of Padre Bonaventura Radmilović, painted with vegetable colours, and finished after ten years' labour in 1675.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

He sat all day over his antiphonary, in the little carrel off the cloister, and as he worked his mind toiled like a mill.

From The King's Achievement by Benson, Robert Hugh

There are also said to be a psalter and antiphonary of the fourteenth century, and a Bull of Urban V. relating to the Crusades of 1365.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

Kindling thought and imagination at once, the prospect draws from him cries of joy, of a kind of religious joy, as in some new "canticle of the creatures," some new hymnal, or antiphonary.

From Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Pater, Walter

He is said to dwell mainly upon the proper manner of performing the antiphonary and the graduale.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)