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CANTILLATE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm
Example:
The rabbi chanted a prayer
Synonyms:
cantillate; chant; intonate; intone
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "cantillate" is one way to...):
sing (produce tones with the voice)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cantillate"):
singsong (speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They will cantillate the duet
Derivation:
cantillation (liturgical chanting)