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

Noun Inflected Forms

• antiphonaries
  plural

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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

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Example Sentences

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antiphonary antiphonaries

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

From Giordano Bruno by Walter Pater

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 Robert Hugh Benson

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 W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

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 F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

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 Walter Pater

Business had invaded the cloisters where, in place of antiphonaries, heavy ledgers reposed on reading-desks.

From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

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

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

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

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

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