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

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

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antiphonary antiphonaries

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)

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)

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)

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

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 Pater, Walter

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)

Then seven or eight antiphonaries brought us back again to low prices.

From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by France, Anatole

Altars, statues, pictures, antiphonaries, missals, graduals—all underwent a common fate.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

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)

In the Abbey library, among a waste of antiphonaries and homilies and monkish chronicles, were to be found texts of Livy and Lucretius and the letters of Cicero.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John