acroteleutic
acroteleutic noun: the end of a verse or psalm, or something added to it, to be sung by the people by way of a response.
Noun
acroteleutic (plural acroteleutics)
- The end of a verse or psalm, or something added to it, to be sung by the people by way of a response.
- This mode of conducting the psalmody was sometimes called singing acrostics and acroteleutics, and is the apparent origin of the Gloria Patri repeated at the end of each psalm in our liturgical services.1853, John Farrar, An Ecclesiastical Dictionary
- And in this respect the Gloria Patri itself is by some ancient writers called the hypopsalma or epode, and acroteleutic to the psalms, because it was always used at the end of the psalms.1855, Richard Bingham, The antiquities of the Christian church, page 18
Forms of acroteleutic
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Origin of acroteleutic
From Ancient Greek ἀκροτελεύτιον (akroteleútion, “extreme end”).
Questions about acroteleutic
- What does acroteleutic mean?
- Acroteleutic means the end of a verse or psalm, or something added to it, to be sung by the people by way of a response.
- What part of speech is acroteleutic?
- Acroteleutic is a noun.
- What is the plural of acroteleutic?
- The plural of acroteleutic is acroteleutics.
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