Meaning of cantillo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to hum, to chirp
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2. to sing
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Examples

“4. Quod precantus & cantillant sine intellectu, linguâ peregrina, quam nec cantores nec auditores intelligunt. 5. Quod cantillant sine devotione. Sunt preces merè mercenariæ solorum clericorum, sicut nostri vigiles precio conducuntur ad proclamandam horam noctis.”

“'ester ac potatur incondite, […] poculis agminatim ingestis, clamore ludunt, strepitu cantillant': haec in hos conveniunt.”

'They eat and drink in disorder, … they play with shouts, they sing with noise': these things apply to them.

“primus designat musicam sive rationem cantus apud Judæos, qui textum Biblicum non legunt sed cantillant. That is, [...] the first designates musick or the manner of singing among the Jews, who do not read but sing.”

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