To celebrate or worship in song; address hymns to; salute with song.
                  
                
                  
                    
                    To express in a hymn; sing as a hymn: as, “hymned thanks,”
                  
                
                  
                    
                    To sing hymns.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In general, a religious ode, song, or other poem: as, the Homeric hymns; the hymns of Pindar.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Specifically A metrical formula of public worship, usually designed to be sung by a company of worshipers.
                  
                
                  
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                    In a narrow sense, an extra-Biblical poem of worship: opposed to psalm.