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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
kantikoy .
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Examples
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Lenape, "their worship consists of two parts, sacrifice and cantico," the latter "performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shouts; their postures very antic and differing."
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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The English word _cantico_ in the phrase, for instance, "to cut a cantico," though an Indian word, is not from this, but from the Algonkin Delaware _gentkehn_, to dance a sacred dance.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Let us servire cantico. (let us serve with a song)
Boar's Head Carol 1521
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Next to be mentioned are the loanwords for various Indian ceremonies, which include: busk a Creek festival of first fruits and purification that was celebrated when the first green corn was edible and that marked the beginning of a new year. cantico a ceremonial dance of the Algonquian Indians of the Atlantic seaboard.
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Per - peram etiam auctor Catalogi biblio - thecae Oppenheimeri eumque secutus Maschius locis supra commemoratis Im - manueli nostro attribuerunt Commen - tarium alterum in Canticum cantico - rum, qui ex eadem editione in illius bibliothecae exemplari servabatur.
Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 1795
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Notiffimi funt typi myftici ab atitiquis, receiv - ticfribusque commetitatoribus ex cantico ad noftros
Fragmenta patrum Graecorum Friedrich Münter 1788
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Fragmenta patrum Graecorum Friedrich Münter 1788
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Modus in muficis c (k, lex 8c ordo, in cantico fervandus. hinc modos fccit Flaccus Claudii (inc. nonfiUuSy quomodo exponic Don. fed quod Murecus approbac, Uhcrtus.
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779
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