Magnificat

[ mag-nif-i-kat, -kaht; mahg-nif-i-kaht, mahn-yif- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

(italics) the hymn of the Virgin Mary in Luke, 1:46–55, beginning “My soul doth magnify the Lord,” used as a canticle at evensong or vespers.
a musical setting for this.

Magnificat

/ mæɡˈnɪfɪˌkæt /

1150–1200; Middle English < Latin: (it) magnifies (from the first word of the hymn)

from the opening phrase in the Latin version, Magnificat anima mea Dominum (my soul doth magnify the Lord)

This so-called “Madonna of the Magnificat” was painted in Florence around 1485 by Sandro Botticelli and his team.

I hope Wilson—that's our second thurifer—won't go wrong in the Magnificat.

The splendours of the Magnificat died away to a silence and one of the clergy stepped from his place to read the Second Lesson.

How wearily and with what sadness Madonna writes Magnificat, or dreams of the love that even now is come into her arms!

I have a special, undiluted dislike of one picture,—the Magnificat.

I sent the poor Magnificat to the Royal Academy in the spring of 1871.

April 25, 2024firkin

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