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acroteleutics

acroteleutics is the plural of acroteleutic.

Meaning of acroteleutic

Noun

acroteleutic (plural acroteleutics)

  1. (obsolete) 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

Questions about acroteleutics

What is acroteleutics the plural of?
Acroteleutics is the plural of acroteleutic.

Words near acroteleutics in the dictionary

  1. acrosyringium
  2. acrotarsia
  3. acrotarsial
  4. acrotarsium
  5. acroteleutic
  6. acroteleutics
  7. acrotelm
  8. acrotelms
  9. acroter
  10. acrotergite
  11. acrotergites

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