Obs. [L.; pl. of canticum song; f. can-ĕre, cant- to sing.] The Song of Songs (in the Vulg. Canticum Canticorum). Cf. Canticles.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 8472. Þe quilk man clepes cantica.
1563. 39 Articles, vi. Cantica, or Songs of Solomon.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 12. Ecclesiastes, and Cantica.
