[f. prec. sb.; cf. to chant, hymn.] trans. To celebrate or praise in an anthem, to sing to sacred music.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, I. xci. (1647), 285. He that had anthem’d the purenesse of the God of Israel.
a. 1821. Keats, Fancy, 42. Sweet birds antheming the morn.
1877. Lytteil, Landmarks, IV. ii. 193. The tips of the granite mountains … antheming their hymn of praise.
