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recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm
The rabbi chanted a prayer
How To Use cantillate In A Sentence
- (See mele beginning _Ko'i maka nui_, p. 228.) _Ko'i honua_ (ko'i ho-nú-a) -- a compound of the causative _ko_, _i_, to utter, and _honua_, the earth; to recite or cantillate in a quiet distinct tone, in distinction from the stilted bombastic manner termed ai-ha'a (p. 58). Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
- After tea the guests cantillate passages from the prose and poetry of the Great Indian Master to the accompaniment of gongs (the Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914
- Augusta Levine tutors each child in learning how to cantillate the Torah and Haftarah with special emphasis upon the child's own Torah portion.
- Does Mr. ARNOLD BENNETT cantillate his "copy" into the horn of a graphophone or use a motor-stylus? Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.
