Usually means: Chant response in religious service.
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  1. responsory: Merriam-Webster
  2. responsory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. responsory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. responsory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Responsory, responsory: Wordnik
  6. responsory: Wiktionary
  7. responsory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. responsory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. responsory: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Responsory, responsory: Dictionary.com
  11. Responsory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Responsory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. responsory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Responsory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. responsory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. responsory: FreeDictionary.org
  17. responsory: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. responsory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (responsory)

▸ noun:  A chant or anthem recited after a reading in a church service
▸ noun:  A book of liturgical responses; a responsorial.
▸ adjective:  Containing or making answer; answering.

Similar:
response, reciting, lection, gradual, acroteleutic, recitation, intonation, service, devotional, recitement, more...

Opposite:
irresponsibility, unaccountability, unreliability

Adjectives:
third, short, last, first, fourth, final, ninth, second, eighth, liturgical, whole

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Similar:
response, reciting, lection, gradual, acroteleutic, recitation, intonation, service, devotional, recitement, more...

Opposite:
irresponsibility, unaccountability, unreliability

Adjectives:
third, short, last, first, fourth, final, ninth, second, eighth, liturgical, whole



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