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Hymnal   /hˈɪmnəl/   Listen
Hymnal

noun
1.
A songbook containing a collection of hymns.  Synonyms: hymnary, hymnbook.






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"Hymnal" Quotes from Famous Books



... (1657), a collection of 205 hymns, the most beautiful of which, such as, Liebe, die du mich zum Bilde deiner Gottheit hast gemacht and Mir nach, spricht Christus, unser Held, have been adopted in the German Protestant hymnal. More remarkable, however, is his Geistreiche Sinn-und Schluss-reime (1657), afterwards called Cherubinischer Wandersmann (1674). This is a collection of "Reimsprueche" or rhymed distichs embodying a strange ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various

... University of North Carolina, where by some accounts he received twenty-five cents a day for his labor, by others fifty cents. He was very ambitious. He was fond of the melodies and hymns sung at campmeetings, and learned to read largely by matching the words he knew in the hymnal to those in a spelling-book. Many people of distinction became interested in his abilities; several legends exist as to his instructors; and Dr. Caldwell, president of the University, was for some years a ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various



Words linked to "Hymnal" :   hymnary, songbook



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