Definition of "responsorial" []

• A book or liturgical responses (noun)
• Of or pertaining to a response (in all senses) (adjective)
• Responsive (adjective)

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• "Whatever the human author's conscious intent may have been, the Spirit is clearly speaking through this text of Jesus Christ and the motives of those who brought him to his earthly end—as does the "responsorial" psalm that follows."
• "This was a peculiar kind of responsorial singing in which an Alleluia formed the responsorium or refrain."
• "Long gone were the days when they used to sell the papers outside the local church after mass, but he headed down that way, anyway, past the imposing single-spired, grey stone building from which the mumble of a responsorial psalm was already reverberating through the chill morning air."