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Chant   /tʃænt/   Listen
noun
Chant  n.  
1.
Song; melody.
2.
(Mus.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
3.
A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.
4.
Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. (R.) "His strange face, his strange chant."
Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian.
Chant royal, in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. each of these six parts ending with a common refrain.
Gregorian chant. See under Gregorian.


verb
Chant  v. t.  (past & past part. chanted; pres. part. chanting)  
1.
To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. "The cheerful birds... do chant sweet music."
2.
To celebrate in song. "The poets chant in the theaters."
3.
(Mus.) To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.


Chant  v. i.  
1.
To make melody with the voice; to sing. "Chant to the sound of the viol."
2.
(Mus.) To sing, as in reciting a chant.
To chant horses or To chant horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter.





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"Chant" Quotes from Famous Books



... children still inside the Mission house were helping to chant the Doxology, and the woman appeared to listen to it with interest. When it was finished she ...
— The Watchers of the Plains - A Tale of the Western Prairies • Ridgewell Cullum
... sabre, and, bending, took the dead woman by the wrist, lifting her limp, trampled body from the dust. He began to mutter, holding his sabre above his head, and the men took up the savage chant, standing close ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers
... darker-complexioned than would have been expected in that part of the world; and when some of our men went on shore and showed them bells and pictures, they began to dance round our men with a hoarse noise and unintelligible chant, and to excite our admiration they took arrows a cubit and a half long, and put them down their own throats to the bottom of their stomachs without seeming any the worse for it. Then they drew them up again, and seemed much pleased at having shown their ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 • Emma Helen Blair
... This chant is sung by the soul of the Francesca of the Bird-ordained purgatory; whose torment is to be dressed only in falling snow, each flake striking cold to her heart as it falls,—but such lace investiture costing, not a cruel price per yard in souls ...
— Love's Meinie - Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds • John Ruskin
... and descended a little way in the direction whence the sounds seemed to come. But no door, no light, only the black walls, the black wet flags, with their faint yellow reflections of flickering oil-lamps; moreover, complete silence. I stopped a minute, and then the chant rose again; this time it seemed to me most certainly from the lane I had just left. I went back—nothing. Thus backwards and forwards, the sounds always beckoning, as it were, one way, only to beckon me ...
— Hauntings • Vernon Lee


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