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cantillation

(kant′'l ā′s̸hən)

noun

in Jewish liturgy, a chanting or reciting with certain prescribed musical phrases indicated by notations

Origin: < cantillate, chant (< L cantillatus, pp. of cantillare, hum, sing low < cantare: see chant) & -ion

Related Forms:

cantillate transitive verb, intransitive verb cantillated, cantillating

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