[L.] The ancient hymn beginning Exultet jam angelica turba cœlorum, sung in the Roman Church at the benediction of the paschal candle on Easter-eve; a musical setting of this hymn.
[1519: see EXULTAND.]
1869. Rock, Ch. Our Fathers, I. 212. [An illumination representing] the deacon singing the Exultet in the ‘ambo.’
1884. Cath. Dict., 406, s.v. Holy Week, The use of the paschal candle goes back … as far at least as the time of Zosimus, who was made Pope in 417, and the sublime words of the ‘Exultet’ … can scarcely be less ancient.
