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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hymn

Hymn (hĭm), n. [OE. hympne, ympne, F. hymne, OF. also ymne, L. hymnus, Gr. ὕμνος; perh. akin to ὑφή web, ὑφαίνειν to weave, and so to E. weave.] An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thanksgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.

Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16.

Where angels first should practice hymns, and string Their tuneful harps. Dryden.

Hymn book, a book containing a collection of hymns, as for use in churches; a hymnal.

Hymn (hĭm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hymned; p. pr. & vb. n. Hymning.] [Cf. L. hymnire, Gr. ὑμνεῖν.] To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.

To hymn the bright of the Lord. Keble.

Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine. Byron.

Hymn, v. i. To sing in praise or adoration. Milton.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.