Antiphon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A devotional chant; a piece of music sung responsively.

   “Father Vaillant came back in his vestments, with his pyx and basin of holy water, and began sprinkling the bed and the watchers, repeating the antiphon, Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor.”

2. isim A response or reply.

   “The Clown […] says: ‘And so we wept; and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed’; to which his father, the Shepherd, adds the comfortable antiphon, ‘We may live, son, to shed many more.’”

3. özel isim an Ancient Greek sophist who wrote several philosophical treatises (480 – 411 BCE)
4. özel isim the brother of Plato
5. özel isim the earliest of the ten orators, an important figure in fifth-century Athenian political and intellectual life, from Rhamnus