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chantryn.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French chantrie. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman chantrie, chauntrie, chauntré, chaunterie, chauntarie, Anglo-Norman and Middle French chanterie action of singing or chanting (12th cent. in Old French; early 14th cent. or earlier with reference to the canonical hours or masses), in Anglo-Norman also endowment founded for a priest or priests to celebrate masses for the repose of souls (beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier) < chanter chant v. + -erie -ery suffix.In forms chantuarye and chauntuarye after post-classical Latin cantuaria (see cantuarie n.). With the β. forms compare also -ory suffix1 and perhaps also β. forms at chanter n.2 1. society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > chantry-priest > foundation for 1394 in (1836) III. 256 A rente charge..paiable to the vse and profit of his chanterie ther. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 512 And ran to Londoun, vn to Seint Poules To seeken hym a Chauntrye for soules. ?1456 W. Worcester in (2004) II. 155 My maister wille comyn with yow for the moyens of a chauntuarye to be founded of the place ye wote off. 1542 H. Brinkelow sig. Aviii The greate Substance which ye bestowe vppon chauntrees. 1572 ii. f. 143v From praiyng for soules, to suppressing of Chanteries. c1613 (c1509) in T. Stapleton (1839) 206 To occupie peassiablely his poore chawntory with all the profitte and commodity to the said chawntory belonging. 1677 R. Thoroton 419/2 The Jury,..found it not to the Kings loss if he granted licence.., to gives..one hundred and twenty Acres of Land,..in Claworth, to a Chaplain of a certain Chantry by him to be founded in that Church. 1778 T. Warton II. v. 98 Priam founds a regular chantry of priests. 1848 Mar. 261/1 The obit of Henry Sampson and Alianor, the founders of a chantry..was to be kept yearly. 1868 H. H. Milman vii. 150 The collective revenues of all these chantries. 1938 53 610 Thomas Dawtrey held lands in Hunslet, and with William De La Hay endowed a chantry. 1950 11 72 This new Gild was empowered to found a chantry of 5 priests, to celebrate a sung Mass daily for the welfare of the king and the lord deputy. 2002 P. Marshall i. 19 A chantry represented a self-perpetuating engine of prayer. society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > chapel > [noun] > chantry 1418 in F. J. Furnivall (1882) 31 To singe goddys seruice for my soule..in the Chaunterie of the Chirche of Seint Leonarde. 1443 in J. Raine (1855) II. 130 (MED) My bodye to be beried in the kirke of Willughby before the autre of the chauntry of oure Ladie. 1528 W. Tyndale f. lxxxvi Yf kynges and greate men doo amisse they must bylde abbayes and colleges, meane men bylde chauntres. 1550 T. Becon sig. A.viiiv The ryche worldelynges in tymes paste could buylde..greate Colledges, Chauntries, and Freechappels, for subtle cariars and Purgatorie rakers. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. i. 318 I haue built two Chauntries [1600 chanceries], Where the..Priests sing still For Richards Soule. View more context for this quotation 1672 J. Davies 76 Thomas Langley, Bishop of Durham, lyeth buried under a fair Marble Tomb within the said Chantry before our Lady's Altar. 1733 T. Gent 111 Another Chantry beneath the Choir, dedicated likewise to the Holy and Undivided Trinity. 1790 T. Pennant 330 This undercroft, as these sort of buildings were called, had in it several chauntries and monuments. 1826 W. Scott I. i. 4 It still contains some arches of the old chantry. 1868 J. H. Blunt I. 31 ‘Chantries’ were added to churches, or enclosed by screens within them, for the erection of altars. 1952 82 149 Sir William de Folville..raised an argument over the chantry of his chapel. 2004 14 May 25/2 His uncle's shrine was to have been the climax of the new Chapel, which from the start was also to be his own and his Queen's mausoleum and chantry. society > faith > worship > church music > [noun] > singing or chanting of society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > chanting > of the mass c1400 (?c1390) (1940) l. 63 Þe chauntre of þe chapel cheued to an ende. 1587 in (2007) 1587/7/18 At the day and dait of thir presentis pertenis to..quhatsumevir college kirk foundit for chantorie and singing. Compounds1439 in K. Cameron (1991) II. 268 In domo vocat' chauntr'house. 1469 Inventory in (1901) 24 87 (MED) [In the] Jnventary of masse-bokes [is] the Chauntry booke. 1505 in J. L. Glassock (1882) 29 Item of Sr John london for the Chauntry londe, ijs. vjd. 1546 in J. T. Fowler (1888) III. 62 Unius cubiculi vocati le Chauntre house. 1655 T. Fuller vi. 354 Courtiers..scrambled for themselves out of Chantery-revenues, as knowing this was the last dish of the last course. 1732 D. Neal I. ii. 77 The Chauntry-Lands were sold among the Laity. 1798 Oct. 850/1 Not far from the church of Bromham lies..the chantry-house, to which appertained certain annual..fee farm rents. 1835 E. Parsons 99 [Inscriptions.] Near the chantry door. Hic jacet frater — istius monasterii monachus. 1883 26 Sept. 1411/3 The impoverishment of the church by the seizure of the chantry lands. 1932 7 480 The chantry houses in Ardee that had belonged to the Priory. 1980 T. S. Willan ii. 19 The Collegiate Church..was endowed with land and houses much of which was former chantry property. 2014 J. Willoughby in V. Gillespie & S. Powell xi. 220 The only real need for books at a chantry altar was for those that would support the cantarist in his duty of prayer. C2. society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > chantry-priest 1429 Will in (1895) 5 301 (MED) I wol that Sr Johu Middleton, which is chauntry preest in the cherche of Colmoord, haue..xl s. yerely of my cofres duryng his lif. 1549 H. Latimer sig. Diiv I woulde not that ye should do wyth chauntrye priestes, as ye dyd wyth the Abbotes. 1655 T. Fuller iv. 253 The ensuing Reformation swept away the Masses and Chantery Priests founded to pray for His [sc. Henry VIII's] soul. 1734 55 One Thing is to be remember'd of the Chantry Priests; that their Employment was not only to sing for the Souls of their Founders; but they were oblig'd to assist in the Cure of the Parish. 1842 F. E. Paget iv. 90 This porch..contained a small chamber,..which was supposed to have been the sleeping apartment of the chantry-priest. 1907 F. W. Maitland in II. 468 Education..suffered very severely..from the confiscation of chantries which began at the end of the reign [of Henry VIII], for the chantry priest was often the local schoolmaster. 2003 J. Clegg 44 Chantry priests also testify to the importance of religion for the individual, since many people left considerable sums in their wills in order to employ them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1394 |