noun
definition
A song of praise or worship.
verb
definition
To sing a hymn.
definition
To praise or extol in hymns.
Examples of hymn in a Sentence
After some readings and a hymn, the priest moved to the pulpit.
As the congregation sang a hymn, a deep voice could be heard above the others, strong and confident.
Alex shared the hymn book with her, his deep rich voice strong and confident.
This work contains also the texts of the Hymn and the Dream of the Rood.
The sole purpose of one hymn is to compare them with different twin objects, such as eyes, hands, feet and wings.
The communion hymn is from the 17 th century.
As this hymn gives an account of the origin of the castes (which elsewhere are scarcely recognized in the Rig Veda), it is sometimes regarded as a late addition.
The philosophical theory of the origin of things, a hymn of remarkable stateliness, is in Rig Veda, x.
The Homeric hymn to Helios, as Max Muller observes, " looks on the sun as a half-god, almost a hero, who had once lived on earth."
Suidas reckons him one of the early poets and a writer of hymns of consecration, and Diodorus Siculus quotes a line from a Dionysiac hymn attributed to Eumolpus.
If desired, a psalm or other canticle of praise or a hymn may also be sung by the entire congregation.
Three top police chiefs sang from different hymn sheets on Tuesday.
Yet do I hymn Thine ineffable condescension, O Word!
Should we be a bit embarrassed by the word ' hymn '?
It was originally set to Charles Wesley's hymn Thou God of glorious majesty.
A solo trumpet can steadily enhance a hymn tune.
In a hymn to the Saviour composed at this time he gave vent to his prophetic dismay.
The principal is the large portion of the Hymn to Zeus which has been preserved in Stobaeus.
Furber he edited Hymns and Choirs (1860), and with Professor Park and Lowell Mason The Sabbath Hymn Book (1859).
The " Purusha Sukta," the 90th hymn of the tenth book of the Rig Veda, gives us the Indian version of the theory that all things were made out of the mangled limbs of Purusha, a magnified non-natural man, who was sacrificed by the gods.
He was a fellow of the Royal Society, a writer on varied topics to the reviews and the author of the hymn "Lord of our Life and God of our Salvation."
We cannot certainly assign to him more than four or five (Deus Creator Omnium, Aeterne rerum conditor, Jam surgit hora tertia, and the Christmas hymn Veni redemptor gentium) of those that have come down to us.
In June 1833 he left Palermo for Marseilles in an orange boat, which was becalmed in the Strait of Bonifacio, and here he wrote the verses, "Lead, kindly Light," which later became popular as a hymn.
A strong man offered himself in Bardaisan (q.v.; Bardesanes), to whom perhaps we owe the finest Syriac poem extant, the " Hymn of the Soul," though orthodoxy rejected him.
But I am sorely disappointed at nothing from you or Mrs Alderson yet as to her hymn on the 7th Word.
A man of no specific era walks or crawls up a human wide millstream chanting a Welsh hymn.
A funeral hymn is followed by a New Orleans-style parade.
Thus any tune of a given metrical pattern could readily be matched with the words of any hymn in the same metrical pattern could readily be matched with the words of any hymn in the same metrical pattern.
Passiontide hymn contributed by Tallis to Parker's The Whole Psalter of 1567.
The service concluded with the hymn " The King of Love " and the benediction pronounced by the Bishop.
A church of silent air rings loud today; hymn books stand sentry by the doors, orders of service behind them.
I should love a port pie, the very thought " raises tumults in my breast " as the hymn has it!
The piece contains the theme to which the words of popular hymn ' I vow to thee my country ' were set.
My first impulse was to give up the Hymn entirely, after reading yours today.
At all events the meaning of " healer " gradually gave place to that of " hymn," from the phrase 'I17 Ilacav.
The Homeric Hymn to Apollo of Delos (7th century) describes an Ionian population in the Cyclades with a loose religious league about the Delian sanctuary.
This theory of Brahma being born from a golden egg is, however, a mere adaptation of the Vedic conception of Hiranya-garbha (" golden embryo"), who is represented as the supreme god in a hymn of the tenth (and last) book of the Rigveda.
According to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Persephone, while gathering flowers on the Nysian plain (probably here a purely mythical locality), was carried off by Hades (Pluto), the god of the lower world, with the connivance of Zeus (see also Proserpine).
Defoe's exposure in the pillory (July 29, 30, 31) was, however, rather a triumph than a punishment, for the populace took his side; and his Hymn to the Pillory, which he soon after published, is one of the best of his poetical works.
In a later hymn Amen-Ra is confessed as " the good god beloved, maker of men, creator of beasts, maker of things below and above, lord of mercy most loving."
They averred that the sum and substance of their "fault" was that they had been accustomed to meet on a fixed day before daylight to sing in turns a hymn to Christ as God, and to bind themselves by a solemn oath (sacramento) to abstain from theft or robbery, and from adultery, perjury and dishonesty; after which they were wont to separate and to meet again for a common meal.
He closed his eyes, and, from all sides as if from a distance, sounds fluttered, grew into harmonies, separated, blended, and again all mingled into the same sweet and solemn hymn.
The recessional hymn at funerals is almost always ' God be with you ' til we meet again '.
I sang Si Kahn 's song Here is my home, a secular hymn about the fellowship of singing in harmony.
Judging by Browne 's speech last week, some of the oil majors appear to be singing from the same hymn sheet.
Former Liverpool slave ship captain John Newton wrote the famous hymn ' Amazing Grace '.
Later still the Neoplatonist Emperor Julian wrote in Hymn to Helios that the sun moved in the starless heaven beyond the fixed stars.
I should love a port pie, the very thought " raises tumults in my breast " as the hymn has it !
A great traditional version of the hymn can be found at Chordie.
These tabs will help guitarists play this famous Christian hymn.