decantare

decantare [CL] 1 to sing; b (w. theme as obj.). c to play (mus.). d to sing in opposition (fig.), to deny; cf. de 17d, f. ut ‥ ymnista ‥ carmen triumphale ‥ ~et Aldh. VirgP 18; cum ‥ solitas Domino laudes ~aret Bede HE IV 7; Latin Stories 123 (v. cantilena 1).  b [libri] Lucani proelia Caesaris et Pompei ~antis Aldh. Met. 10 p. 83; archanorum spiritalium mysteria ~ata Bede Hom. II 16. 185.  c citharedus ‥ alterius modi melum modulans jucunde ‥ ~abat in cithara H. Bos. LM 1300B.  d 1168 supervenerunt ‥ nuntii legatorum ‥; minime coarantes, nam quicquid cecinerat alius, alius in curia ~abat J. Sal. Ep. 244 (272 p. 562). 2 (eccl.) to sing, chant: a (creed, psalm, or sim.); b (mass). a Ambrosius ‥ admonet ut verba symboli matutinis semper horis fideles quique ~ent Bede Egb. 5 (cf. ib.: idiotas ‥ haec ipsa sua lingua discere ac ‥ ~are facito); vovit ‥ quia ‥ cotidie psalterium totum ‥ ~aret Id. HE III 27; sic ‥ ~ans ‘Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto’ ‥ ultimum e corpore exhalavit spiritum Cuthb. Ob. Baedae clxiv; in prima oratione ~et tres primos paenitentiae psalmos RegulC 16; 985 (12c) ~ante psalmigrapho: ‘Domini est terra ‥’ [Psalm. xxiii 1] CD 652; decantare Deo cepit psalmos cum leticia Hil. Ronce. 1. 127; G. S. Alb. II 106 (v. departire 1a); s1349 (v. Christicola); ~ari fecit statim per capellam suam angelicum hymnum ‘Te Deum’ G. Hen. V 16.  b missas a sacerdote in Quadragesima ~andas Gir. GE I 49 p. 133; due misse ‥ solempniter ~ate Cust. Cant. 397; missa de Spiritu ~ata Hist. Roff. f. 63. 3 (of birds) to sing, warble. avis ~ans melodias quasdam Paradisi O. Cheriton Fab. 78. 4 to recite. si numerum mensium singulorum ‥ memoriter ~are consuescas Bede TR 22. 5 a (w. acc. & dat.) to ascribe (in song). b to proclaim, declare. a judicem universorum ‥ rex propheticus ‥ longanimem esse declarat [cf. Psalm. cii 8] et ‥ ei se misericordiam cum judicio ~are manifestat Ælnoth Cnut prol. 2 p. 127.  b quod me audires a lascivientibus rusticis inter hereticos per pocula ~ari Bede Pleg. 307; 797 sicut ab omnibus in terminis paschalibus verissime ~atur et firmissime tenetur Alcuin Ep. 126; alma fides ‥ securam se defensore Sadio ~are non timeat Map NC III 2 f. 37v.