cantillate
\KAN-tl-eyt\
verb
1. to chant; intone.
Quotes
The rabbi began to cantillate the phrases of the Channukah song. It was not a tune he sang, but a murmuring, a mixture of sighs and fragments of melody.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat, translated by A.H. Gross, 1950
Origin
Cantillate entered English in the mid-1800s from the Late Latin cantillātus meaning "sung low, hummed."
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