Word Meanings - ANTIPHONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to ANTIPHONARY)

• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• MUSICAL
  Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons. Musical, or Music,
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• MUSICALNESS
  The quality of being musical.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• COLLECTION
  1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. A gathering of money for charitable
• COLLECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to collecting. The first twenty-five must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• MISRECOLLECTION
  Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
• RECOLLECTION
  1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which
• IMMUSICAL
  Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant. Bacon.
• PRECOLLECTION
  A collection previously made.