Cervus

During the procession the famous Tract Sicut cervus is sung, the beginning of Psalm 41, which gave rise to the widespread custom of decorating baptisteries with images of deer drinking from a fountain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In this case, the Tract Sicut cervus is sung while the water is brought to the font, and afterwards, the prayer which speaks of the deer as a symbol of the Christian people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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There's this chaconne-like cantata BuxWV 92 "Quemadmodum desiderat cervus" -- the Psalm "As the hart desireth the waterbrook" auf Lateinsich -- that has a two-bar basso ostinato that's repeated 64 times. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

The tract is Absolve domine rather than Sicut cervus, found in the earlier polyphonic requiems of Ockeghem and La Rue. ❋ Lu (2009)

Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus. ❋ Bls (2009)

Pointedly, one other use that the medieval church made of Sicut cervus was during the Requiem or funeral Mass, when the soul proceeded from earth to its Promised Land. ❋ Bls (2009)

The text of Sicut cervus directly quotes the Psalm text in its imagery: "As the deer thirsts for the waters, so my soul longs for Thee, O God!" ❋ Bls (2009)

And that's why there was this Swedish fellow named Linnaeus who suggested that we all say "cervus elaphus" or "alces alces". ❋ Torill (2007)

And for many more "stag beetle" terms, see Maria Fremlin's Vernacular and dialect names of Stag Beetles Lucanus cervus in various countries, from which you will learn that the Swedish name is ek 'oak' + oxe 'bull'; you will also find well over a dozen German names, the last of which is the cognate Eichochs. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Chinese attribute the most ‘horny’ qualities to the Sika deer cervus sika, a breed that thrives in northeast China. ❋ Daniel Reid (1989)

These would be the red deer (cervus elaphus) still existing then on Hatfield chase, in the northwest of the county, in considerable numbers. ❋ James Conway Walter (N/A)

Híc autem cervus, cúius cornua aurea fuisse tráduntur, incrédibilí fuit celeritáte. ❋ John [Editor] Kirtland (N/A)

He gives it as his opinion that it would have been well to have adopted the _vau_, and says that neither by the old way of writing (by UO), nor by the modern way (by _servus_ et _cervus_) ea ratione quam reddidi: neutro sane modo vox quam sentimus efficitur. ❋ Frances Ellen Lord (N/A)

+ The Tract Sicut cervus of Holy Saturday must hereafter be printed with the words only, without chant notation. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Hie autem cervus dīcēbātur aurea cornua et pedēs multō [1] celeriōrēs ventō [2] habēre. ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

Running is as natural a gait for _genus homo_ as for _genus cervus. ❋ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1897)

"_Quemadmodum cervus_," -- began Mistress Margaret; "as the hart brayeth after the waterbrooks," -- and she took the embroidery and began to go on with it. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

The curiosity of the _cervus_ species, while much less, sometimes manifests itself in an extraordinary fashion. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)

The _cervus_ species rarely or never fall, even when stricken through the heart, knowing which, Deerfoot dashed up the slope, knife in hand, and made after the wounded buck, which could be heard threshing among the stones and underbrush. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)