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(obsolete, Christianity) The end of a verse or psalm, or something added to it, to be sung by the people by way of a response..
This mode of conducting the psalmody was sometimes called singing acrostics and acroteleutics, and is the apparent origin of the Gloria Patri repeated at the end of each psalm in our liturgical services.
And in this respect the Gloria Patri itself is by some ancient writers called the hypopsalma or epode, and acroteleutic to the psalms, because it was always used at the end of the psalms.
And this they would generally keep for an Acroteleutic at the end of their psalms.
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Acroteleutic means (obsolete, Christianity) The end of a verse or psalm, or something added to it, to be sung by the people by way of a response..
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This mode of conducting the psalmody was sometimes called singing acrostics and acroteleutics, and is the apparent origin of the Gloria Patri repeated at the end of each psalm in our liturgical services.
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