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noun (hymnod, ies, -)
- (uncountable) The writing, composing, or singing of hymns or psalms.
- 1721, w:Thomas Ken, Thomas Ken, "Vrania: or, the Spouſe's Garden", The Works of the Right Reverend, Learned and Pious, Thomas Ken, D.D., Vol. IV, J. Wyat, page http://books.google.com/books?id=ODk1AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA448&dq=hymnody+date:1701-1800&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0 448,
- : Primeval worship, Worſhip, Lord, retrieve, / For whose, whoſe Decays the Faithful grieve, / For as thy Temple-offerings, Off'rings fall or riſe, / Hymnody chills or fires, Religion lives or dies.
- (countable) The hymns of a particular church or of a particular time.
- 1718, William Gordon, An Apology for the Use of the English Liturgy and Worship, J. Bettenham, page http://books.google.com/books?id=n8QHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=hymnody+date:1701-1800&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0 56
- : Therefore do we recite this seraphic, Seraphick Theology delivered to us, that in that celestial, cí¦leÅ¿tial Hymnody we may communicate with the w:Heavenly Host, Heavenly HoÅ¿t "
Etymology: From Old French hymnodie, from hymnodia, from Ancient Greek (Polytonic, á), hymnos, "song of praise", which itself is derived from the Proto-Indo-European stem - sh2em-, "sing", related to Hittite (unicode, iÅáamai), "he sings", and Sanskrit sÄman, "song", + suffix -ody, Latin -odia, from Greek contracted form (term, sc=Grek, á, tr=Ådá, , song), from (term, sc=Grek, á, tr=aoidá, , song).
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