(a.) Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs.
(n.) A book of antiphons or anthems.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early antiphonal exchanges between broodmates are as smooth as later ones between parents and chicks, suggesting that chicks quickly attain proficiency at antiphonal interactions and do not rely on an adult partner to maintain the pattern.
(2) Out of these subjects 70 persons used antiphones (of ear plugs) continuously, 70 workers used them occasionally, and 70 subjects did not use them at all.
(3) We investigated changes in antiphonal duetting with phases of reproduction and circulating levels of luteinizing hormone, testosterone, and estradiol in slate-colored boubous (Laniarius funebris) breeding in aviaries.
(4) The ontogeny of antiphonal calling was studied in free-living European starlings.
(5) Low intragroup cohesion, infrequent social interaction, and antiphonal use of several long-distance vocalizations suggest that ruffed lemurs naturally exhibit fission-fusion sociality.
(6) The antiphonal exchanges between parents and young develop shortly before fledgling and appear to help family groups maintain contact after the young have left the nest.
Liturgy
Definition:
(a.) An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(2) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
(3) Nobody believes any of this stuff, of course, but it has to be said, rather like a familiar religious liturgy.
(4) Only one has been issued so far this century – by Pope Benedict to give Anglicans a way of joining the Catholic church without having to forgo their liturgy and so on.
(5) They deplore the loss of ancient liturgy and Latin; they are sticklers for the rules, especially on sexual morality, and prize top-down authority over individual conscience.
(6) No other court in the past 50 years has allowed public school officials to lead children in formal religious rituals like the Hindu liturgy of praying to, bowing to, and worshipping the sun god,” attorney Dean Broyles said in a statement.
(7) While stressing that it is not advocating any change to the church's teaching on sexual conduct, it suggests that the house of bishops may wish to consider whether it should issue guidance on liturgy.
(8) Otherwise, there was silence, punctuated only by the comforting murmur of several hundred voices reciting a liturgy they knew by heart.
(9) "Appropriating other people's liturgies," whispered one wry cleric, "does bring certain difficulties."
(10) Yes, just in case you were looking for some spiritually-uplifting sounds to accompany the white smoke, look no further: Spotify have worked with the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy (NDCL) in the United States to come up with 29 pieces of music that they say will "give the listener a disposition of wonder, of contemplation, of prayer".
(11) A priest hurrying through the liturgy, the commentator at Walthamstow dog track?
(12) And I thought: ‘If you’ve not got a PR operation, you’re obviously not planning to open any time soon.’ But their line was always, ‘It’s about to happen.’ There’s a line in the Anglican liturgy: ‘The hope of glory to come.’ It was like that.” As time went on, she says, the mood of the All Saints neighbourhood came to be defined by the empty expanse of land at its heart.
(13) The group does not propose any specially authorised liturgy for the blessing of same-sex relationships and says the move would not require any change to church teachings.
(14) "The thing that makes evangelical churches popular is the informality, the lack of structure of the service, the fact that they don't use traditional liturgy, and they've got good music that young people love and they engage with.
(15) Speaking at a press conference following the report's publication, Sir Joseph said one consequence of the lack of authorised liturgy was the "room for manoeuvre" when it came to the kind of ceremony priests might be able to offer same-sex couples.
(16) We think of religion as the bible, morality, sacred tradition, doctrine, ritual, liturgy.
(17) The proposals in the church's theological commission report on ordaining gay ministers for a gay marriage liturgy was one of his "worst nightmares", Randall said.
(18) This, and the primacy of the word of God in monastic liturgy, made Hume naturally ecumenically-minded.
(19) At that time, the morning services replicated the experience of the grander sort of public-school chapel, with a robed choir, a liturgy from 1662 and a well-bred congregation lined up on pews.
(20) "It is a consecrated space where important liturgies are celebrated and where popes are elected.