Usually means: Chant or intone sacred text.
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  1. cantillate: Merriam-Webster
  2. cantillate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cantillate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cantillate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cantillate: Vocabulary.com
  6. cantillate: Wordnik
  7. cantillate: Wiktionary
  8. cantillate: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cantillate, cantillate: Dictionary.com
  10. Cantillate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. cantillate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. cantillate: Rhymezone
  13. Cantillate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cantillate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. cantillate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. cantillate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. cantillate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. cantillate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  To chant, or to recite musically (especially in a synagogue).

Similar:
chant, intone, intonate, daven, bentsh, leyn, bentch, shuckle, doven, tovel, more...

Types:
sing, hum, warble, trill, croon, carol, chirp, chorus, more...

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Similar:
chant, intone, intonate, daven, bentsh, leyn, bentch, shuckle, doven, tovel, more...

Types:
sing, hum, warble, trill, croon, carol, chirp, chorus, more...



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