Definition of "alleluia" []

• Hallelujah. (interjection)

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• "Alleluia: quemadmodum vidistis eum ascendentem in caelum, ita veniet, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia."
• "The chant became very elaborate, the greater part of it being devoted to the last vowel of the word alleluia, which was prolonged through so many successive notes as to suggest a mystical meaning, viz., that it represented the chant of eternity, or, as Durandus says, the joy that is too great to be expressed in words."
• "And it is to wit that this word alleluia is expounded in four manners after four doctors, the first is S. Austin, which exposeth it thus:"