📚 Cantillate, verb. 🔉 /ˈkantɪleɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (rare • with object): Chant or intone (a passage of religious text) ❗️ Examples: 1. He cantillated the verses of the ancient Avesta. 2. Father Anshel was good at cantillating the Book of Esther but hopeless at making money. 3. Augusta Levine tutors each child in learning how to cantillate the Torah and Haftarah with special emphasis upon the child's own Torah portion. 4. They do at least agree that the tradition of cantillating the scriptures is a very old one, and was probably firmly established in tradition before the Massoretes began their work. 5. As Kahn observes, the saxophone itself does the chanting - articulating and cantillating the word patterns of Coltrane's poem of praise and thanksgiving to his Creator. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic