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hym·nal

(hĭm′nəl)

A book or collection of church hymns. Also called hymnary, hymnbook.

[Middle English himnale, from Medieval Latin hymnāle, from Latin hymnus, hymn; see hymn.]

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hymnal

(ˈhɪmnəl)

(Ecclesiastical Terms) a book of hymns

adj

(Ecclesiastical Terms) of, relating to, or characteristic of hymns

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hym•nal

(ˈhɪm nl)

n.

1. Also called hymn•book (-ˌbʊk) a book of hymns for use in a religious service.

adj.

2. of or pertaining to hymns.

[1535–45; (definition 1) < Medieval Latin hymnāle, n. use of neuter of hymnālis (adj.); (definition 2) < Medieval Latin hymnālis; see hymn, -al¹, -al²]

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Noun

hymnal - a songbook containing a collection of hymns

hymnary, hymnbook

songbook - a book containing a collection of songs

Translations

himnario

sálmabók

innario

hymnal

[ˈhɪmnəl] N → himnario m

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hymnal

[ˈhɪmn^əl] n → livre m de cantiqueshymn book n → livre m de cantiques

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hymnal

n → Gesangbuch nt

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hymnal

[ˈhɪmnəl] n → libro dei canti

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Clements Library at the University of Michigan, the Warrington Collection at the Hartford Seminary Library, the Warrington Hymnology Collection at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary's Barbour Memorial Library, the music division of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Lowell Mason Hymnal Collection at the Yale Divinity Library.

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As the eminent hymnologist John Julian noted over a century ago, '[Milton's] influence on English hymn-writing has been very slight, his 19 versions of various Psalms having lain for the most part unused by hymnal compliers.' The exception would be one of his two metrical versions of Psalm 136.

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3 [March 2003]: 664-67]); and the detailed commentaries on each of the hymns in the common hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch (published in various editions for each regional church in Germany, 1993-96)--the replacement of the Evangelische Kirchengesangbuch (again, published in various editions, 1950-69)--and in the Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch, that currently comprises twenty-four volumes, and is not yet complete (ed.