Do you remember my post about the "Ebenezer?"Ebenezer means "stone of help," and the only place I've ever run across this word was in an old hymn called "O, Thou Fount of Every Blessing."
Well, just yesterday I ran across another one of "those words" in the hymn "When Morning Gilds the Skies." The word is "canticle" and refers to a song or chant taken from biblical text. What intellectually curious individual could pass up the opportunity to add "canticle" to her vocabulary?
Do you remember my post about the "Ebenezer?"Ebenezer means "stone of help," and the only place I've ever run across this word was in an old hymn called "O, Thou Fount of Every Blessing."
Well, just yesterday I ran across another one of "those words" in the hymn "When Morning Gilds the Skies." The word is "canticle" and refers to a song or chant taken from biblical text. What intellectually curious individual could pass up the opportunity to add "canticle" to her vocabulary?
I've decided to make it my mission to hunt and expose superannuated hymn language and ressurect these oft neglected jewels to be part of by sons' home school vocabulary lessons.
I suppose that if the boys are in the process of using each new word in a sentence and some ignoramous bully dude misunderstands the meaning of "raise your Ebenezer" and threatens to beat the living pulp out of them, then I'll consider it a character building lesson, as well.