Word Meanings - ANTIPHONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

Related words: (words related to ANTIPHONE)

• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• SIGNATORY
  1. Relating to a seal; used in sealing. Bailey. 2. Signing; joining or sharing in a signature; as, signatory powers.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• SIGNIORSHIP
  State or position of a signior.
• SIGNIFICATOR
  One who, or that which, signifies. In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. Sir W. Scott.
• SIGNPOST
  A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.
• 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.
• SIGNIFICATE
  One of several things signified by a common term. Whately.
• SIGNIFICATORY
  Significant. -- n.
• SIGNATION
  Sign given; marking. Sir T. Browne.
• SIGNORINA
  Miss; -- a title of address among the Italians.
• CHANTERELLE
  A name for several species of mushroom, of which one is edible, the others reputed poisonous.
• CHANTEY
  A sailor's song. May we lift a deep-sea chantey such as seamen use at sea Kipling.
• ALTERNATENESS
  The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
• SIGNALLY
  In a signal manner; eminently.
• CHOIR
  The chancel. Choir organ , one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• CHANTING
  Singing, esp. as a chant is sung. Chanting falcon , an African falcon . The male has the habit, remarkable in a bird of prey, of singing to his mate, while she is incubating.
• SIGNIFER
  Bearing signs. "The signifer sphere, or zodiac." Holland.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• TROCHANTER
  One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• CONSIGNER
  One who consigns. See Consignor.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• ENSIGNCY
  The rank or office of an ensign.