a. [ad. L. allēlūiatic-us f. allēlūiā, after drama, dramatic-us, etc.] Of or pertaining to the Alleluia or Hallelujah.
[1639. Ussher, Brit. Eccl., xi. Wks. 1847, V. 381. Celebratissimam victoriam Alleluiaticam.]
1844. St. German, in Eng. Saints, xiv. 158. Which goes in history by the name of the Alleluiatic Victory [when the Britons under Germanus by shouting Hallelujah gained a bloodless victory over the Pagan Saxons and Picts].
18[?]. W. Staunton, Eccl. Dict. (ed. 4), App. 3, Alleluiatic Sequence, the hymn beginning with the words ‘The strain upraise.’
