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hym·na·ry

 (hĭm′nə-rē)
n.
See hymnal.
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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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Noun1.hymnary - a songbook containing a collection of hymnshymnary - a songbook containing a collection of hymns
songbook - a book containing a collection of songs
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The board of Home Missions detected a "smugness, exclusiveness and prejudice in our Church towards the non-Anglo-Saxon." (35) There was growing awareness about the racist use of the terms "heathen" and "Jew" in the Hymnary. (36)
Hymnary.org: a comprehensive index of hymns and hymnals.
(32) The manuscripts are: Grey MS 4.c.7, a complete antiphonary, containing all the chants for the offices of the liturgical year, a hymnary, a tonary, and a kyriale; Grey MS 6.b.3, a Carthusian evangeliary, the main musical interest of which are the accent neumes at the ends of the pericopes; and Grey MS 3.c.23, an antiphonary for nuns, containing the chants for Lauds and Vespers
I looked for the latter in The Hymnary, the old blue United Church hymn book.
How many times have they been asked to bin the Billy Boys and being up to their knees in Fenian blood, to can the FTP add-ons to the rest of their hymnary of hate?
(10) The first twenty folios were added in the fourteenth century, well after the original redaction; folios 154r-189v are a hymnary and Office of the Dead.
(5) But, for the most part, the previous Lutheran hymn collections in the first part of the twentieth century--such as The Lutheran Hymnary (1913), the Common Service Book and Hymnal (CSB, 1917), the American Lutheran Hymnal (1930), TLH (1941), and even the SBH (1958)--brought together groups of Lutherans of largely similar ethnic backgrounds, pieties, or ideologies.
"Previously, too many of our hymns have been borrowed," said Douglas Galbraith, a member of the' committee that prepared this fourth edition of The Church Hymnary. "The new book has vastly more material from the folk and traditional strands of Scottish culture, both lowland and Gaelic."
"Previously, too many of our hymns have been borrowed," said Douglas Galbraith, a member of the committee that prepared the fourth edition of the Church Hymnary. "The new book has vastly more material from the folk and traditional strands of Scottish culture, both lowland and Gaelic."
The close association with the United Church of Canada included the 1936 adoption of The Hymnary for the Use in Canadian Baptist Churches that was literally a copy of The Hymnary of the United Church.
A report by the Kirk's Hymnary Committee, set up to select new material for an up-dated hymn book, claimed traditional language used in psalms needs to be radically revamped.
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