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Acclamations
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary
or Ecclesiastical, were shouts of joy which the people expressed by way of approbation of their preachers. It hardly seems credible to us that practices of this kind should ever have found their way into the church, where all ought to be reverence and solemnity. Yet so it was in the fourth century. The people were not only permitted, but sometimes even exhorted, by the preacher himself, to approve his talents by clapping of hands, and loud acclamations of praise. The usual words they made us of were, "Orthodox, " "Third apostle, " & 100: These acclamations being carried to excess, and often misplaced, were frequently prohibited by the ancient doctors, and at length abrogated. Even as late, however, as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, we find practices that were not very decorous; such as loud humming, frequent groaning, strange gestures of the body, &c.
See articles DANCERS, SHAKERS.
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Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Acclamations'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/cbd/a/acclamations.html. 1802.
