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noun

Carol n.

A round dance. (Obs.)

A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. "The costly feast, the carol, and the dance." "It was the carol of a bird."

A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol. "Heard a carol, mournful, holy." "In the darkness sing your carol of high praise."

Joyful music, as of a song. "I heard the bells on Christmans Day Their old, familiar carol play."

Carrol, Carol n. (Arch.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. The term carrel, of the same has largely superseded its use. "A bay window may thus be called a carol."

verb

Carol v. t. (past & past part. caroled or carolled; pres. part. caroling or carolling)

To praise or celebrate in song. "The Shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness."

To sing, especially with joyful notes. "Hovering swans... carol sounds harmonious."

Carol v. i. To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble. "And carol of love's high praise." "The gray linnets carol from the hill."

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Etymology of 'Carol'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Carol" Quotes from Famous Books

... grow ripe in a Year, as well as others after him, Annuo Spatio maturescit, Benzo memorante. Carol. Cluzio, l. c. Annuo justam attingens Maturitatem Spatio. Franc. Hernandes, apud Anton. Rech. In Hist. Ind. ...

— The Natural History of Chocolate • D. de Quelus

... motionless torrents and the silent cataracts and the great Mont Blanc itself to praise God. Coleridge never had seen Chamounix, nor Mont Blanc, nor a glacier, but he knew his Bible. So he has his Christmas Carol along with all the rest. His poem of the Moors after the Civil War under Philip II. is Scriptural in its phraseology, and so is much else that he wrote. Frankly and willingly he yielded to its influence. In his "Table Talk" he often ...

— The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of • Cleland Boyd McAfee

... of the pen I stop to glance at that splendor, whose sameness never fails, but now a flock of ring-doves break for a moment with dots of purple its monotonous beauty, and the carol of a tiny bird (the first of the season), though I cannot see the darling, fills the joyful air with ...

— The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 • Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

... that the "Gloria in excelsis," the well-known hymn sung by the angels to the shepherds at our Lord's nativity, was the earliest Christmas carol. Bourne cites Durand to prove that in the earlier ages of the churches, the bishops were accustomed, on Christmas-day, to sing carols among their clergy. Fosbroke says—"It was usual, in ancient feasts, to single out a person, and place him in the midst, to sing a song to God." And Mr. ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No. - 582, Saturday, December 22, 1832 • Various

... heaven and hell! All around him primeval life innocent and unconscious was at play. All around him, stricken with the fever of life, that Power which made both light and darkness, inscrutable in its workings, was singing silently the lovely carol ...

— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell

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