(n.) The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.
(n.) A canto or division of a poem
(n.) A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the white-stuccoed nave of St Martin-In-The-Fields, cloistered from the late afternoon traffic of Trafalgar Square, a choir is performing one of the canticles of Evensong.
(2) May our canteens be festooned with canticles, our shoeshops filled with catalectic feet.
(3) While the details of our situation will remain appropriately private, I am seeking to be as open and honest in the midst of this decision as I have been in other dramatic moments of my life – coming out in 1986, falling in love, and accepting the challenge of becoming Christendom’s first openly gay priest to be elected a bishop in the historic succession of bishops stretching back to the apostles.” He added: “It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.” Jim Naughton, an advocate for gay rights and co-founder of Canticle Communications, told the Associated Press the "strength, grace and generosity" shown by Robinson and Andrew would “always be a source of inspiration" for Episcopalians and Anglicans seeking acceptance of gay relationships.
Psalm
Definition:
(n.) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
(n.) Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.
(v. t.) To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises.
Example Sentences:
(1) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
(2) The congregation of the Old South Church, founded in 1669 in Boston, has voted to sell one of their two copies of the Bay Psalm book, first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and which is known as America's first book .
(3) Among other things, we asked them to identify the first book of the New Testament from a choice of Matthew, Genesis, Acts of the Apostles, Psalms, "Don't know" and "Prefer not to say".
(4) Obama read from Psalm 46 - "God is our refuge and strength" - after a minute's silence was held at 8.46am to mark the instant the first plane went into the North Tower.
(5) Earlier he tweeted a verse from the Bible: "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted," from Psalm 34:18.
(6) While one group recited the Psalms, another chanted: “Death to terrorists.” Among the crowd milling close to the entrance of the synagogue was Akiva Pollack, a paramedic who was one of the first on the scene, who told the Guardian that upon entering the building he had been confronted immediately by an individual covered in blood.
(7) "This is potentially the last time that the Swiss Psalm heard today will feature at a World Cup," he reports.
(8) A few minutes before the public was admitted to the plaza where Sharon's coffin lay on a black marble plinth, members of the Knesset guard laid wreaths at its base as two army rabbis read from the book of psalms.
(9) A wide range of somatic and psychological vocabulary was found, especially in the Psalms and other poetic literature.
(10) She wanted a poem by Anne Dillard, and the 23rd psalm.
(11) This gave us further opportunity to share the experience of our dioceses and, within a context of daily Eucharist and prayer, to hear again God’s calling in Scripture and in Creation (Psalms 104, 148, 24) and to discern ways forward.
(12) According to this rule, Psalms (120:5), Isaiah (6:5), Jeremiah (4:31), and Ophelia should have cried out, "Woe is I," and the cartoon possum Pogo should have reworded his famous declaration as "We have met the enemy, and he is we."
(13) The book, which takes as its full title The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, has been valued at $20m (£12.5m), according to reports.
(14) There was the reading of Psalm 23 by the episcopal pastor Kathleen Adams-Shephard: "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil."
(15) At the last memorial service, the former Everton striker Graeme Sharp read Psalm 23.
(16) After bowing his head to listen to Psalm 80, he smiled at the congregation as he made his way towards the cathedral altar.
(17) "Let us now consider man in the free spirit of natural history," the chapter begins, echoing the Psalms Wilson read as a boy.
(18) Billy Joel’s Allentown and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA sang the psalms of this disempowerment.
(19) In 23rd Psalm (1966), he contrasted scenes of his tranquil life in rural Colorado with footage of the second world war.
(20) "God judgeth the righteous," it says in Psalms 7, "and God is angry with the wicked every day."