एक छोटी कविता ने कहा या सार्वजनिक पूजा में एक पुजारी या मंत्री द्वारा गाया गया और उसके बाद मंडली से प्रतिक्रिया दी

Noun:

विशेषत: प्रार्थना गीतों के वे छोटे-छोटे पद जो बारी-बारी से पादरी और अन्‍य लोगों द्वारा गाये जाते है, छोटा पद्य,

versicles's Usage Examples:

Fortunately, however, the Gregorian canto fermo associated with it is of exceptional beauty and symmetry; and the great 16th century masters either, like Palestrina, left it to be sung as plain-chant, or obviated all occasion for dramatic expression by setting it in versicles (like their settings of the Magnificat and other canticles) for two groups of voices alternatively, or for the choir in alternation with the plain chant of the priests.

The versicles are short responsories used after the little chapters.

They are: psalms (including canticles), antiphons, responsories, hymns, lessons, little chapters, versicles and collects.

This is the very backbone of the Breviary, the groundwork of the Catholic prayer-book; out of it have grown the antiphons, responsories and versicles.

" Lift up your hearts," with following versicles.

For the composition of the uta gradually deteriorated from the end ofthe 9th century, when a game called uta-awase became a fashionable pastime, and aristocratic men and women tried to string together versicles of 31 syllables, careful of the form and careless of the thought.

On the contrary, many of them took pleasure in composing versicles to which Chinese words were admitted and which showed something of the parallelism peculiar to Chinese poetry, since the first ideograph of the last line was required to be identical with the final ideograph.

versicles's Meaning':

a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation