Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
canticum .
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It seems definite, on the other hand, that the Missa Sine nomine was composed for King Ferdinand, a supposition encouraged by the distich found at the head of this mass in the Verona manuscript: “Ferdinande sacer inter divos referende cantica tinctoris suscipe parva tui” “O Ferdinand, saintly enough to be counted amongst the gods, accept these little compositions by Tinctoris”.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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And now Professor Singleton's great edition of the Divine Comedy has been completed, each cantica with a volume to itself, the verse beautifully spaced and disposed in the most elegant of columns, each cantica with its volume of intensive commentary, 3,296 pages in all.
Dante Agonistes Carne-Ross, D.S. 1975
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Quis comprehendere valet modi (_sic_) diligentise orationis ejus omnes, namque psalmos, et ymnos et Apocalipsi, ac omnia cantica spiritualia scripturarum cotidie (quotidie) decantabat seu in uno loco seu in itinere gradiens.
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The first step was the separation of the _cantica_ from the _diverbia.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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He was a Romanticist and argued in favour of the doctrines of his friends Manzoni and Grossi in the cantica "El Romanticism", the "Dodges Sonitt al'abaa Giavan"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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+ Roman drama ran down to pantomime with explanatory recitation, that is, _cantica_.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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Some biblical narratives, legends of saints, and profane compositions from that time exist, which are probably _cantica_, to be accompanied by pantomime at fairs or in church porches.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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In the treatment of the Inferno he strove to delineate the whole geography of Dante's first _cantica_, tracing the successive circles and introducing the various episodes commemorated by the poet.
Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866
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Some were amatory, (_münnelier_); some were satirical, (_cantica in malitiam_); some heroic, (_cantica in honorem, _); some diabolical,
The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Charles Butler 1791
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I just don't know what to say here; I never in my life thought I would play a videogame based on the first arc (or cantica if you're feeling snooty) of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
DVD Verdict 2010
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