Definition of "cantatory" []

• Of, pertaining to, or containing cant (adjective)
• Of or pertaining to singing or singers (adjective)

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• "The word "cantatory" explains itself as a volume containing chants; it was also called "Graduale", because the chanter stood on a step (gradus) of the ambo, or pulpit, while singing the response after the Epistle."
• "Not so with poets, orators, and other human professors of the high-flying and cantatory arts."
• "African, and something of African feeling is observable in their impressive but in cantatory manner of ringing."