cantillate

• 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.
• (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

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