Chanted
[tʃɑ:ntid]
Definition
(adj.) sung or uttered rhythmically in a monotone; 'a chanted psalm' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Chant
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Examples
- Tradition has preserved some wild strophes of the barbarous hymn which she chanted wildly amid that scene of fire and of slaughter:-- 1. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Chanted originally to the chiefs and leading men in hall, they were now recited at the public festivals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Priscus describes how bards chanted before Attila. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thanks being returned for what we had not got, and a second hymn chanted, the refectory was evacuated for the schoolroom. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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