cantion

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cantiō, from canere (“to sing”). Doublet of chanson and canzone.

Noun

cantion (plural cantions)

(obsolete, rare) A song, poem or incantation.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Hugh Singleton, , →OCLC:
  the same person was brought in singing a Cantion of Colin's making

References

“cantion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

actinon, contain, nanotic

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