Noun:

சிறு செய்யுள்,

versicles's Usage Examples:

" Lift up your hearts," with following versicles.

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.

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

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.

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.

The versicles are short responsories used after the little chapters.