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n. A chant or anthem recited or sung after a reading in a church service.

n. A chant or anthem recited after a reading in a church service

adj. Containing or making answer; answering.

n.

n. The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service.

n. A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain.

n. An antiphonary; a response book.

Containing answer.

n. In liturgics: A psalm or portion of a psalm sung between the missal lections.

n. A portion of a psalm (originally, a whole psalm) sung between the lections at the canonical hours; a respond. Also responsorium.

"We then proceeded to learn chant for the reformed Roman rite and in the evening, we gathered for first Vespers of the Baptism of the Lord, using the new antiphons from the Solesmes antiphonal and the responsory, 'Hodie in Iordane'."

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