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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A bound collection of antiphons, especially of the responsive choral parts of the Divine Office.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A book of antiphons. As originally compiled by Pope Gregory the Great, it contained whatever was sung antiphonally in the mass and offices of the Latin Church. The liturgical antiphons, however, that is, those proper to the mass, have long been published in a separate book called the gradual. The responsories of the office were also anciently published by themselves in the responsorial, but now, along with the antiphons proper, that is, those associated with the psalms of the office, make up the present antiphonary.
  2. Antiphonal.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An antiphonal.
  2. adj. Pertaining to an antiphon or antiphony.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony
  2. n. bound collection of antiphons

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