transitive verb

• Chant or intone (a passage of religious text)

  ‘he cantillated the verses of the ancient Avesta’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Father Anshel was good at cantillating the Book of Esther but hopeless at making money.’
  • ‘Augusta Levine tutors each child in learning how to cantillate the Torah and Haftarah with special emphasis upon the child's own Torah portion.’
  • ‘They do at least agree that the tradition of cantillating the scriptures is a very old one, and was probably firmly established in tradition before the Massoretes began their work.’
  • ‘As Kahn observes, the saxophone itself does the chanting - articulating and cantillating the word patterns of Coltrane's poem of praise and thanksgiving to his Creator.’
  • ‘Because his family could not afford to pay for his education, he was sent to a religious school where he mastered the cantillating of the Koran.’

  Synonyms

  repeat from memory, say aloud, read aloud, declaim, quote, speak, deliver, render