cantico
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cantico
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From an south Eastern Algonquian language. Compare a Lenape gen'tke'n ("to sing, dance, etc.") as well as Powhatan kantokan (“dance”) and kantikanti (“dance and sing”).
noun canticos · canticoes · canticoy · kantikoy
- A sacred ceremony of the Algonquin tribe that involved dancing in a circle, at which colonists were not welcome. We lodged in the woods that night, and heard the shouting of the Indians at a cantico, which they were said to hold that evening in a town hard by.
- A dance festival in which colonial Americans and natives both participated. The cash-book tells us of the expense of himself and family going to fairs, and Indian canticoes, probably gotten up to amuse the Proprietary.
- An uproar; activity that is full of high spirits and violent action. It was almost like father and son meeting to adjust a little misunderstanding arising from the latter's canticoes.
Talk about this word "cantico." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cantico. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. cantico. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cantico "cantico." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cantico.Cite this
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title = {cantico},
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