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Canticles   Listen
noun
Canticle  n.  (pl. canticles)  
1.
A song; esp. a little song or hymn. (Obs.)
2.
pl. The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.
3.
A canto or division of a poem (Obs.)
4.
A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.





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... accompany her to assist us to the understanding of her doctrine, the angels sing her laudation and she herself in the role both of unveiler of the Scriptures of the Prophets and the Apostles and the mystical Bride of the Canticles is worthy to be called "O Light, O Glory ...
— Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" • John T. Slattery
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... A gloss on the Canticle of Canticles (5) says that, "God by a common mode is in all things by His presence, power and substance; still He is said to be present more familiarly in some by grace." [*The quotation is from St. Gregory, (Hom. viii ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
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... skirt, and Julien, fascinated by the mysterious charm of these indefinite objects, and following the impulse of their mystical suggestions, would fling himself impetuously into the jungle, repeating to him self the words of the "Canticle of Canticles": "I hear the voice of my beloved; behold! she cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills." He would continue to press forward in pursuit of the intangible apparition, until he sank with exhaustion near some stream or fountain. Under the influence of the fever, which ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet
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... judgment, on as good or as bad grounds, to reverse these conclusions; the critical process which excluded the Apocrypha could not be barred, at any rate by people who rejected the authority of the Church, from extending its operations to Daniel, the Canticles, and Ecclesiastes; nor, having got so far, was it easy to allege any good ground for staying the further progress of criticism. In fact, the logical development of Protestantism could not fail to lay the authority of the Scriptures at the feet of Reason; and in the hands of latitudinarian and rationalistic ...
— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley
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... was recited by all, then the women sang the canticles. From time to time the widow and children of the deceased raised the corner of the shroud and kissed it solemnly. A repast was served in an adjoining room, where the beggar sat side by side with the wealthy, on the principle that all were equal before death. It is strange ...
— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence
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