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 hymn /ˈhɪm/
 讚美詩,聖歌(vt.)(vi.)唱讚美歌

 Hymn n.  An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thanksgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.
    Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns.   --Col. iii. 16.
 Where angels first should practice hymns, and string
 Their tuneful harps.   --Dryden.
 Hymn book, a book containing a collection of hymns, as for use in churches; a hymnal.

 Hymn v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hymned p. pr. & vb. n. Hymning ]  To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
    To hymn the bright of the Lord.   --Keble.
    Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.   --Byron.

 Hymn, v. i. To sing in praise or adoration.
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 hymn
      n : a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) [syn:
           anthem]
      v 1: sing a hymn
      2: praise by singing a hymn; "They hymned their love of God"

 Hymn
    occurs only Eph. 5:19 and Col. 3:16. The verb to "sing an hymn"
    occurs Matt. 26:30 and Mark 14:26. The same Greek word is
    rendered to "sing praises" Acts 16:25 (R.V., "sing hymns") and
    Heb. 2:12. The "hymn" which our Lord sang with his disciples at
    the last Supper is generally supposed to have been the latter
    part of the Hallel, comprehending Ps. 113-118. It was thus a
    name given to a number of psalms taken together and forming a
    devotional exercise.
      The noun hymn is used only with reference to the services of
    the Greeks, and was distinguished from the psalm. The Greek
    tunes required Greek hymns. Our information regarding the
    hymnology of the early Christians is very limited.