[f. prec.; see -ATION.] Chanting, intoning, musical recitation; spec. that used in Jewish synagogues.
1864. Engel, Mus. Anc. Nat., 328. The kind of singing which musicians call cantillation, and which may be heard in every synagogue.
1879. Stainer, Music of Bible, 158. The Arabs … recite the Koran to a sort of irregular chant or cantillation.
