cantillatev.
/ˈkantɪleɪt/ To chant; to recite with musical tones: spec. applied to the intoning in Jewish synagogues.
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1864 R. Lee Reform Ch. Scotl. Singing can hardly be said to be used..in the Synagogues. Their cantillating much more resembles intoning.
1902 G. B. Shaw Let. 6 June in C. Bax Farr, Shaw & Yeats (1941) 19 I should do no good by entering into cantilationary polemics... Half the curates in the kingdom cantilate like mad all the time.
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