canticum
noun
part of an ancient Roman drama chanted or sung and accompanied by music.
cantica
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pluralof canticum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Roman drama ran down to pantomime with explanatory recitation, that is, cantica.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
In the treatment of the Inferno he strove to delineate the whole geography of Dante's first cantica, tracing the successive circles and introducing the various episodes commemorated by the poet.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
There the lads are singing Selecta cantica: There are glasses ringing In villae curia; Oh, would that we were there!
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds
The first step was the separation of the cantica from the diverbia.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
Some biblical narratives, legends of saints, and profane compositions from that time exist, which are probably cantica, to be accompanied by pantomime at fairs or in church porches.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
