Meaning of acroteleutic | Babel Free

Definitions

The end of a verse or psalm, or something added to it, to be sung by the people by way of a response.

obsolete

Examples

“This mode of conducting the psalmody was sometimes called singing acrostics and acroteleutics, and is the apparent origin of the Gloria Patri repeated at the end⟳ of each psalm in our liturgical services.”

“And in this respect⟳ the Gloria Patri itself is by some ancient writers called the hypopsalma or epode, and acroteleutic to the psalms, because it was always used at the end⟳ of the psalms.”

“And this they would generally keep⟳ for an Acroteleutic at the end⟳ of their psalms.”

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